Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino
Colonial hacienda where Simón Bolívar died in 1830, with gardens and a contemporary art museum.
San Pedro Alejandrino was a working hacienda producing sugar cane, rum and indigo on the plain below the Sierra Nevada, a few kilometres from Santa Marta. Its origins go back to the early seventeenth century, and by 1830 it belonged to the Spanish merchant Joaquín de Mier. Simón Bolívar, gravely ill and on his way into exile, accepted Mier's invitation and arrived in December 1830. He died in a modest whitewashed room of the main house on 17 December, and the estate has been preserved as a national memorial ever since.
Visitors can see the main house with its period furnishings and the death chamber, the sugar mill and distillery buildings, the chapel and a nineteenth-century carriage. The grounds hold a botanical garden of tropical species and monumental commemorative structures, notably the neoclassical Altar de la Patria and the Museo Bolivariano de Arte Contemporáneo, opened in 1986, which gathers works donated by artists from the countries Bolívar helped to liberate and runs a programme of temporary exhibitions.
Highlights
- The room where Simón Bolívar died on 17 December 1830
- Neoclassical Altar de la Patria and memorial gardens
- Museo Bolivariano de Arte Contemporáneo, opened 1986
- Hacienda sugar mill, distillery and botanical garden
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