Casa Museo Quinta de Bolívar
Country house given to Simón Bolívar in 1820, now a period house museum below Monserrate.
The Quinta de Bolívar stands on farmland recorded since 1680 at the foot of the Cerros Orientales, just east of Bogotá's colonial centre. The surviving house was built from about 1800 by José Antonio Portocarrero as a rural retreat with orchards and water channels fed by the Monserrate slopes. In 1820 the new republican government bought the estate and presented it to Simón Bolívar, who stayed there intermittently during the 1820s, notably in 1827 in the company of Manuela Sáenz.
After Bolívar left Bogotá the house passed through private hands and a variety of uses before the state reacquired it in 1922 to create a museum of the Liberator. Today it is administered by Colombia's Ministry of Culture and presented as a period residence, with the great hall, dining room, games room, Manuelita's parlour and Bolívar's bedroom furnished in early nineteenth-century style. Terraced gardens, an aqueduct channel and mature trees surround the whitewashed, tile-roofed building.
Highlights
- Bolívar's bedroom and the great hall furnished in early 1800s style
- Terraced gardens and colonial water channels below Monserrate
- Manuela Sáenz parlour recalling her stay in 1827
- National monument of Colombia, museum since 1922
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