House Dann Carlton Hotel & SPA Is located in an impressive building with indoor pool, spa, gym and restaurant. The museum El Chico is a 5 minute walk. Rooms at the Carlton Hotel & SPA House Dann classically furnished and feature spacious living area, desk, Wi-Fi, cable TV, minibar and kitchenette. Daily buffet breakfast is served. The restaurant serves a wide variety of international dishes and you can enjoy drinks on the terrace bar. There is a cafe.
HILTON HOTEL This luxury hotel offers a heated outdoor pool, a gym, private parking and a gift shop. Elegant décor and is located in the center of the business district of Bogota. The Hilton Bogota is just 5 minutes walk from the restaurants and entertainment venues finest Bogota. The tour desk provides tips and information about the area. Massages are available. The rooms are elegantly decorated and have large beds, flat-screen TV and seating area. Private bathrooms modern. Some rooms have exclusive access to the Executive Lounge. Room service is available 24 hours. El Dorado International Airport is 25 minutes by car.
FAIRS OF COLOMBIA Manizales Fair:Born in 1951 to commemorate the centennial of the city. It began with the presentation of bullfighting posters and a large parade manolas in rustic carts. Due to its great success, grew inside her performance as the International Coffee Pageant. It takes 3 to 11 January each year. Cali Fair: Born in 1957, will be held 25-30 December each year. Initially called Sugar Cane Fair. In this gathering of thousands of people to the sound of salsa music and orchestras who meet every year in Cali.
Fair Flowers: The Flower Fair was born in 1957 and the main activities this year takes place between July 25 and August 10, is undoubtedly the event that brings together all of Antioquia and thousands of tourists who visit our city
CARNIVAL OF COLOMBIA Barranquilla Carnival:Held in the second week of February for four days. The Carnival of Barranquilla has a tradition of more than one hundred years. Is the staging of symbolic values and codes in various subcultures of the Colombian Caribbean, generated by miscegenation that gave rise to the present population of this region of Colombia. Carnival of Blacks and Whites: It was declared a National Cultural Heritage by the Congress of the Republic of Colombia in April 2002, is celebrated mainly in Nariño Pasto and other municipalities from 4 to 6 January each year and attracts a considerable number of tourists from all over the country. The carnival includes four major stages: the pre-carnival, carnavalito, the arrival of the Castaneda family, the day finally blacks and whites day. Bogotá Carnival: held annually during the 5th and 6th of August to coincide with the anniversary of the founding of the city Hispanic. Most of the events of the festivities take place in the Parque Simon Bolivar and in the streets and squares of the city center. The first edition of the carnival in the XXI century, took place on the anniversary number 467 and was called "The celebration of diversity", his motto was: "Celebrate life and express yourself as you wish." The festivities also include pre-carnival festivities that take place during the month of July. One of the main objectives of the carnival is to reflect and promote cultural diversity and musical Colombia. Devil's Carnival: Riosucio-Caldas. The Devil's Carnival is all a big ceremony, full of magic, spells fencing, hierarchies and many processions which are interspersed all Colombian cultures. Until 1912 this event was called "Amusement Matachinescas"
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The Carnival of Barranquilla has its remote origin in the Carnival came to America from Spain. Hence its spirit of renewal and change similar to that inspired this holiday in Europe. The first carnival held in the city is lost in history more than a century ago, when Ottawa was a small town. However, various stories have circulated regarding how the people celebrated the Barranquilla Carnival, its always so naive, funny, playful and above all healthy, have allowed the retention of a tradition that goes back three centuries. The Carnival festivities, of European origin, were introduced to America by the Spanish and Portuguese. The history of Barranquilla are coming in the celebration that took place in Cartagena de Indias, in colonial times, as party slaves appeared around that time blacks in the streets with typical instruments and special costumes, dancing and singing. The traditional novena of La Candelaria, in Cartagena de Indias, framed in sumptuous dances in the eighteenth century a holiday granted to blacks brought from Africa muzzles. These parties are the main source of Barranquilla Carnival dances.
The history of tourism in Colombia dates back to June 17, 1954 with the formal creation of the Colombian Association of Hotels (ACOTEL) in Barranquilla was managed primarily by John Sutherland, then Tequendama Hotel Manager. On October 25, 1955 formed the Association of International Airlines in Colombia (Alaico) in Bogota. On 24 October 1957 the government created the Empresa Colombiana de Turismo by Decree 0272. While restaurants are agremiaron in the Colombian Association of Great Restaurants (ACOGRAN). In 1959, the mayor of Bogotá created the Institute of Culture and Tourism of Bogotá. In December 1963 he opened the first resort hotel in Santa Marta, Hotel Irotama and in 1964 created the first hotel chain in Colombia, the Foundation Hotels Ltd.