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Municipality and city in Boyacá, Colombia
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Famous bridge that was the site of a historic battle and decisive revolutionary victory for the independence of New Granada. Besides the main site here are also related monuments and obelisks attending to this affair.
Kind of self-explanatory, but it is from here that you can absorb the colonial feeling of the city quite well.
In a city full of churches, it's like the grand dame, sitting on the Bolivar plaza. Its construction fuses Isabelline, Renaissance, and neoclassical styles, erected between 1567 and 1598.
House of the Founder Gonzalo Suárez Rendón
This house was built in 1540, and is said to be the only remaining house of a city founder in Latin America. It is an art and history museum. Free entrance. Partially closed on Sundays.
This church was completed in 1620 in the Jesuit style and is particularly noteworthy for having a polychrome statue of Jesus. It is also where the International Festival of Culture takes place.
The structure is thought to have been the first convent in the principality of New Granada. It is pretty heavily decorated inside.
Church with Isabelline-style architecture built in 1560 with really quite incredible wood and plaster bas-relief design all over the nave interior.
Another church, whew, this one dating to 1599 and where Our Lady of the Miracle is venerated. There is said to have been an apparition here.
It was a neoclassical Spanish colonial mansion built in 1539 that now houses canvases of Colombian departmental governors.
Church from 1572 dedicated to St. Peter.
Neoclassical-type church dating from 1599.
One of the first churches to be built in Tunja, back in 1566. Moreover, it was the site of where Independence fighters who were assassinated in 1816 were buried.
This church was built between 1570-1640 in the Colonial-Classicist Baroque style and used to be attached to a convent, but that was demolished over the course of time.
An old cloister that also served as the jail and bank of the republic at one point.
Park built upon a site of the Muisca city of Hunza. It has a statue of the general the park is named after and sits beside the San Agustin Cloister.
Archaeological site of the preColombian Hunza people. There are some steles and stuff.
Italian restaurant with great handmade pastas.
Cheap traditional Colombian food and fruit salad.
Possibly the cheapest breakfast in town: Hot chocolate and roll with cheese, COP$1500. Also set lunch and dinner.
Burgers, sushi, pizza and homemade pasta with various vegetarian options in each category. Very popular among Tunja inhabitants.
Microbrewery and pub, good beer and good food at very affordable prices.
Cocktail bar with roof-top terrace. Nice view over the city.
Brew pub that brews an IPA, stout and other craft favorites.
A cozy cafe.
Old colonial house, a bit run down. No breakfast.
Big establishment in Tunja. Has spa and restaurant.
Cozy place with free breakfast.
The largest mall in Tunja.
The Bus Terminal (Nueva Terminal de Transporte) is in the East of the city and can be reached from the main plaza by mini-bus (COP$2,000, to "Terminal") or by taxi.
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Minibuses are usually COP$1,400, and go pretty much everywhere.
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