Mercado de San Alejo

Bogotá


This city-center classic fills a parking lot with a host of yesteryear items (posters, books, knickknacks) that are fun to sift through.


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Nearby Bogotá attractions

1. Museo de Arte Moderno

0.04 MILES

Opened in the mid-1980s in a spacious hall designed by revered local architect Rogelio Salmona, MAMBO focuses on various forms of visual arts (painting,…

2. Mirador Torre Colpatria

0.05 MILES

From the 48th-floor outside deck of the Colpatria Tower you can catch a superb view of the bullring, backed by office buildings and the mountains – there…

3. Museo Nacional

0.36 MILES

Housed in the expansive, Greek-cross-shaped building called El Panóptico (designed as a prison by English architect Thomas Reed in 1874), the Museo…

4. Iglesia La Tercera

0.56 MILES

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

5. Iglesia de la Veracruz

0.59 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.

6. Museo del Oro

0.61 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…

8. Iglesia de San Francisco

0.63 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…