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Welcome to this free tour in Chiva through Villa de Leyva.
On this tour we will do a 3-hour night tour in tourist Chiva where we will go through in a timeline all the events that occurred in the territory.
Beginning a narrative from 130 million years ago when the territory was sea and that thanks to this situation today Villa de Leyva is important for its paleontological wealth.
Likewise, we tell how humans appear on earth according to the ancestral Muisca mythology.
Narrating the history of Bachué and the subsequent Muisca confederation with Bochica and his descendants.
Quickly arriving around 1500, and in 1560 the foundation of the first villa , where the narrative involves the colonizers and religious communities, the reason for the transfer and subsequent foundation of Villa de Leyva in 1572.
At the same time , the genesis of liquor and taxes, the flour industry, the complexes of colonial mills and the muleteering are narrated.
In this time and place, the birth of democracy in the country will be narrated, the transformation of the new Granada to what Colombia is today , the birth of the congress of the republic, the presence of the viceroy don Juan de Castellanos, of Fray Bartolomé de the houses among many other characters of this time.
We return to the 1800s onwards about the Creole revolution against the Spanish royalty and we review characters such as Simón Bolívar, Antonio Nariño, Camilo Torres Tenorio, Antonio Ricaurte among others.
Fast-forward in time , we review the arrival to the presidency of General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla , the eternal war between liberals and conservatives and what the four years in power meant for Colombia , the restoration of national security, the birth of the third party politics and development in infrastructure, education, public services among many other things.
On our tour we tell the story of the cobblestones and the declaration of Villa de Leyva as a national monument
Cost 60,000 person.
Includes guide driver
tour in the chiva
Bonfire
cinnamon
marshmallows .
The green goat will be parked next to the parking lot of the El Eden hotel
Free tours do not have a set price, instead, each person gives the guru at the end of the tour the amount that he or she considers appropriate (these usually range from €10 to $50 depending on satisfaction with the tour).
