Gabriel García Márquez Cultural Center

It's a beautiful and peaceful place, it has a big library/bookstore and in the second floor the view to the mountains and the city It's just magical. The entrance is free. A perfect place place to chill, enjoy of the fresh weather and nature, find a plenty variety of books (at the library)

Highly recommend, beautiful and beautiful views

Mostly a great library to study in, although I do find the air a bit stuffy inside (it's 24C outside today) and the procedure to get on the guest wifi is unnecessarily laborious.

The arhitecture is good but became a bit old. The place itself offers many atractions like a huge interesting bookstore (just keep in mind english books are not to be found there). But the most interesting feature of the place is it's location: in the heart of La Candelaria neighbourhood, oldest and most boheme neighbourhood of Bogotà. You can't possibl go wrong going here, meteres away you could find and discover different wonders of the city: botero museum, amizing old streets, central plaza and cathedral and so on

Interesting place, not much to see compared to the museums across the street, but I’ll never turn down a free chance to see art

It is a place with a unique architecture. There they are asked to take excellent photos and you can use the space to have a coffee and read a book. The site has a store where you can buy books of different subjects, next to Juan Valdez and where you can buy a good coffee.

Fantastic cultural center for one of the greatest writers from LATAM. Also a gigantic bookshop with many options.

Gabriel García Márquez was born on 6 March 1927[5] in Aracataca, Colombia, to Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán.[6] Soon after García Márquez was born, his father became a pharmacist and moved, with his wife, to Barranquilla, leaving young Gabriel in Aracataca.[7] He was raised by his maternal grandparents, Doña Tranquilina Iguarán and Colonel Nicolás Ricardo Márquez Mejía.[8] In December 1936, his father took him and his brother to Sincé, while in March 1937, his grandfather died; the family then moved first (back) to Barranquilla and then on to Sucre, where his father started up a pharmacy.[9] When his parents fell in love, their relationship met with resistance from Luisa Santiaga Márquez's father, the Colonel. Gabriel Eligio García was not the man the Colonel had envisioned winning the heart of his daughter: he (Gabriel Eligio) was a Conservative, and had the reputation of being a womanizer.[10][11] Gabriel Eligio wooed Luisa with violin serenades, love poems, countless letters, and even telephone messages after her father sent her away with the intention of separating the young couple. Her parents tried everything to get rid of the man, but he kept coming back, and it was obvious their daughter was committed to him.[10] Her family finally capitulated and gave her permission to marry him[12][13] (The tragicomic story of their courtship would later be adapted and recast as Love in the Time of Cholera.[11][14]) Since García Márquez's parents were more or less strangers to him for the first few years of his life,[15] his grandparents influenced his early development very strongly.[16][17] His grandfather, whom he called "Papalelo",[16] was a Liberal veteran of the Thousand Days War.[18] The Colonel was considered a hero by Colombian Liberals and was highly respected.[19] He was well known for his refusal to remain silent about the banana massacres that took place the year after García Márquez was born.[20] The Colonel, whom García Márquez described as his "umbilical cord with history and reality,"[21] was also an excellent storyteller.[22] He taught García Márquez lessons from the dictionary, took him to the circus each year, and was the first to introduce his grandson to ice—a "miracle" found at the United Fruit Company store.[23] He would also occasionally tell his young grandson "You can't imagine how much a dead man weighs",[24][25] reminding him that there was no greater burden than to have killed a man, a lesson that García Márquez would later integrate into his novels.

It's a beautiful and peaceful place, it has a big library/bookstore and in the second floor the view to the mountains and the city It's just magical. The entrance is free. A perfect place place to chill, enjoy of the fresh weather and nature, find a plenty variety of books (at the library)

Highly recommend, beautiful and beautiful views

Mostly a great library to study in, although I do find the air a bit stuffy inside (it's 24C outside today) and the procedure to get on the guest wifi is unnecessarily laborious.

The arhitecture is good but became a bit old. The place itself offers many atractions like a huge interesting bookstore (just keep in mind english books are not to be found there). But the most interesting feature of the place is it's location: in the heart of La Candelaria neighbourhood, oldest and most boheme neighbourhood of Bogotà. You can't possibl go wrong going here, meteres away you could find and discover different wonders of the city: botero museum, amizing old streets, central plaza and cathedral and so on

Interesting place, not much to see compared to the museums across the street, but I’ll never turn down a free chance to see art

It is a place with a unique architecture. There they are asked to take excellent photos and you can use the space to have a coffee and read a book. The site has a store where you can buy books of different subjects, next to Juan Valdez and where you can buy a good coffee.

Fantastic cultural center for one of the greatest writers from LATAM. Also a gigantic bookshop with many options.

Gabriel García Márquez was born on 6 March 1927[5] in Aracataca, Colombia, to Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán.[6] Soon after García Márquez was born, his father became a pharmacist and moved, with his wife, to Barranquilla, leaving young Gabriel in Aracataca.[7] He was raised by his maternal grandparents, Doña Tranquilina Iguarán and Colonel Nicolás Ricardo Márquez Mejía.[8] In December 1936, his father took him and his brother to Sincé, while in March 1937, his grandfather died; the family then moved first (back) to Barranquilla and then on to Sucre, where his father started up a pharmacy.[9] When his parents fell in love, their relationship met with resistance from Luisa Santiaga Márquez's father, the Colonel. Gabriel Eligio García was not the man the Colonel had envisioned winning the heart of his daughter: he (Gabriel Eligio) was a Conservative, and had the reputation of being a womanizer.[10][11] Gabriel Eligio wooed Luisa with violin serenades, love poems, countless letters, and even telephone messages after her father sent her away with the intention of separating the young couple. Her parents tried everything to get rid of the man, but he kept coming back, and it was obvious their daughter was committed to him.[10] Her family finally capitulated and gave her permission to marry him[12][13] (The tragicomic story of their courtship would later be adapted and recast as Love in the Time of Cholera.[11][14]) Since García Márquez's parents were more or less strangers to him for the first few years of his life,[15] his grandparents influenced his early development very strongly.[16][17] His grandfather, whom he called "Papalelo",[16] was a Liberal veteran of the Thousand Days War.[18] The Colonel was considered a hero by Colombian Liberals and was highly respected.[19] He was well known for his refusal to remain silent about the banana massacres that took place the year after García Márquez was born.[20] The Colonel, whom García Márquez described as his "umbilical cord with history and reality,"[21] was also an excellent storyteller.[22] He taught García Márquez lessons from the dictionary, took him to the circus each year, and was the first to introduce his grandson to ice—a "miracle" found at the United Fruit Company store.[23] He would also occasionally tell his young grandson "You can't imagine how much a dead man weighs",[24][25] reminding him that there was no greater burden than to have killed a man, a lesson that García Márquez would later integrate into his novels.