Librería Lerner

Bogotá


Stocks many Spanish-language guidebooks on Colombia and the full gamut of maps, including the Movistar guía de rutas por Colombia (a color map/guide; COP$15,000), the 12-map series of national routes Mapas de Ruta (sold individually for COP$1000, or as a packet for COP$14,000) and a handy Colombia in Bicicleta biking map/guide (COP$42,000).


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Bogotá attractions

1. Museo del Oro

0.15 MILES

Bogotá's most famous museum and one of the most fascinating in South America, the Gold Museum contains more than 55,000 pieces of gold and other materials…

2. Iglesia de San Francisco

0.22 MILES

Built between 1557 and 1621, the Church of San Francisco is Bogotá's oldest surviving church. In the atmospherically dark interior, with its extravagant…

3. Iglesia de la Veracruz

0.23 MILES

Iglesia de la Veracruz is known as the National Pantheon because many of the heroes of the struggle for independence have been buried here.

4. Plazoleta del Chorro de Quevedo

0.24 MILES

No one agrees exactly where present-day Bogotá was founded – some say by the Catedral Primada on the Plaza de Bolívar; others say here, in this wee plaza…

5. Iglesia La Tercera

0.25 MILES

Boasts a fine stone facade and lovely wood-carved altars in walnut and cedar set on white walls below a wood-carved ceiling.