Sáchica, Doctrinal church
The foundation square of Sáchica keeps traces of the colonizing process; temporally and conceptually, several spaces will allow you to approach and transport to this period, in order to understand the dynamics of the evangelizing process in the area.
Chorro de Quevedo
One of the icons of the city; the most popular myth says that there is where Bogotá was founded. In pre-colonial times, the place was known by the Muiscas as Thibsaquillo (land of rest in the Chibcha language) and was used as a point of reconcilation with the gods Chía (Moon) and Sue (Sun) because of its location on the slopes of the Eastern Hills (Cerros Orientales).
Sogamoso-Sun Temple
An approach to the millenary culture from the center of the Muisca spiritual power. The Sun Temple located in the Eliecer Silva Celis Archeological Museum Park, allows to recover the memory based on the most representative archeological collection of the Muisca culture at national level. This tour is complemented by a mural exhibition through the city of the sun (Sogamoso) and a visit to the monument to the race, icon and emblem of the city.
Lake of Guatavita Cacique
One of the 7 sacred lakes for the indigenous community where they celebrated a ritual of handove power of a new cacique. Because of its symbolic and spiritual charge, the lake was epicenter of payment rituals which awakened Spanish interest during colonization. Ambition and stories about the legend of El Dorado generated its unsuccessful looting. A place of contact with the Muisca cosmovision and its relationship with nature, water and its rituals.
Golden Museum
This scene began working in 1939, bringing together one of the most important pre-columbian art collection in the world (34.000 prehispanic pieces). The Muisca raft, the poporo Quimbaya and other indigenous ornament made with tumbaga and gold, allows to comprenhend the ancestral world view through goldsmithing and pottery.
Town Hall of Sesquilé
The Muisca community is still present in the territory and and welcomes the visitor stablishing contact forms with its customs, world view and tradition. An invitation to discover and enjoy the grastronomic wealth of the region.
Villa de Leyva
A splendid Boyacá town, where you can understand the
colonizing process through the architecture, the vestiges of the past and the history
of the place itself; and you will also discover the commercial, cultural and social
relationship existed between the Muiscas and the Spaniards.
Indigenous communities
Along El Dorado Legend Route, the very first contact with the Muisca universe is provided
by its own protagonists: indigenous communities. The Muiscas built a unique and fully
sensitive relationship with nature:
Ceremonial Centers
Muisca ceremonies and rituals were carried out in places full of unique features. In these
spaces they performed offerings to gods, caciques or community members were buried,
and the new cognizant and priests were instructed.
El Dorado Legend Route incorporates places that keep a deep symbolic and geographical
connection with ancient ceremonies and rituals. Based on the sky, sun, moon, and starts
observation, Muiscas predicted and determined the best times to do offerings, oblations,
sowings and harvests.
Astronomy
Up on the sky, the stars keep ancestral secrets. El Dorado Legend Route encloses
astronomical observatories that have remained in time to realize of Sue (The Sun), Chía
(The Moon), the stars and all those elements from Heaven in Earth.
The stars observation allowed Muiscas to establish cycles for sowing and harvest, forecast
the weather, socially organize and explain the life itself. Muisca culture edified temples and
homes aligned with sunset, dusk and some planets like Venus.