Bolívar SquarePlaza de Bolívar

Bolívar Square (Plaza de Bolívar) is Bogotá’s historic Plaza Mayor, laid out with the city in the 16th c as the ceremonial and commercial heart of the colonial Andes. Renamed for Simón Bolívar and marked by his 1846 statue, it became a stage for republican memory and public dissent. The Primatial Cathedral (1823) and the Capitol (1848–1926) frame a space where church and state still face each other, and where Colombians gather to mourn, celebrate, and argue their future.