Bogota is a cultural benchmark that hosts the Iberoamerican Theater Festival, The International Art Fair (ArtBo) and Latin American’s biggest free outdoor rock festival; has a wide variety of museums, art galleries and libraries.

 

The city has a diverse gastronomic offer as well as an intense and interesting nightlife.

 

• Bliblored is made up by 4 mega-libraries (Tintal, Tunal, Virgilio Barco, Julio Mario Santodomingo), 6 local libraries, 10 neighborhood libraries and a ‘Biblobus’. This library network receives over 4,3 million visitors per year. Bogota also has the bigges the Luis Angel Arango Library which receives itself over 5,000 visitors daily. 

 

• Bogota has 70 museums, 90 art galleries, 45 theatres, 29 temples of patrimonial interest and 132 national monuments.

 

• Bogota provides 90% of products and services, related to creative industries in Colombia and has a workforce of more than 350,000 people who are linked formally to cultural activities in the city.

 

• Over 73% of the audiovisual enterprises in Colombia are located in Bogota.

 

• Bogota is an excellent scenario for movie, TV series, spots and digital animation production due to its experience, resources, prices, locations and governmental support.

• Rock at the park is a musical event that identifies Bogota worldwide. Since 1995 this event presents the best rock artists and also serves as a place for local new artist to show their work. 

For 2011’s edition 336,000 people assisted to the event that took place for 4 days from the 1st to the 4th of July. 

 

• More than 712 private cultural venues were held in Bogota between 2005 and 2010.

 

• 11 universities have music programs, which makes Bogota a perfect destination for musicians.  

 

• Bogota has Philharmonic Orchestra among other cultural events such as ‘zarzuela’, theatrical plays and electronic music concerts, for which the city was postulated be a part of the Creative Cities Network of UNESCO in 2016.