At the Botero museum enjoying Botero's pictures and sculptures and his philanthropy in setting up and paying for the museum and all the art. In addition to Botero art, there are also paintings by Picasso, Cezanne, Degas and others.
This bronze hand is in the entrance hall way and is the only exhibit you are allowed to get within one meter off.
Outside the museum we stopped for a snack - obleas are two very thin waffles with table cream and caramel between - delicious
In the Colonial Arts Museum we found a chart that gave names for he many variations of mixed parentage that occurred between the Spanish and the native population.
Another rest stop, this time for delicious Helado ice cream.
The Archeolgical Museum was housed in an old nun's home close to the Presidential palace.
Our final stop for the day was at the Independence museum - Casa Del Florero meaning house of the flower vase, named after the defining incident that was used to provoke a riot and force the Spanish viceroy to hand over power to the creoles.
This statue depicts the patriot Luis Rubio and Spanish merchant Joaquin Gonzalez Llorente fighting after Llorente refused to hand over a flower vase that had been requested to be a centerpiece for a dinner to honor a well known patriot sympathiser.
Patricia in the gardens of the Independence museum
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