Flores de Mayo-history and origin we need to understand
B17 ZIPAQUIRA AND NEMOCÓN - ENGLISH
1. Zipaquirá
Nemocón
Circuit
B17
Included
Duration 6Hrs. - Private Transportation (*).
- Touristic Guidance
Description - Snack.
- Entrance tickets to the Salt Cathedral and
Visit the Zipaquirá Cathedral: a complex the Nemocón salt mine.
architectural work built in a tunnel of a mine
- Medical Assistance Card (**)
180 meters deep. After that, depart for Mine
Nemocón: Majestic work underground,
testimony from more than 500 years of
NOT Included
history, built by the hands of our ancestors - Not specified expenses.
who for generations were carving what is
nowdays the salt mine and the history of our Fee per passenger
region.
PAX 1 2-3 4-15 16-40
USD 225 137 115 Conf
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(*): Your transportation will ALWAYS be in private tourism cars.
(**): With GMT RECEPTIVOS, you are ALWAYS covered.
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2. Nemocón means "Warrior's Lament" attributed the mine gates (huge 1817 German gates) were
to the zipas because it was the meeting place to reopened to offer visitors a wonderful
deplore with tears and cries the defeat or death opportunity to cross the deeps of Colombian
of their kings. history.
The inhabitants located in Nemocón exploited During one hour, you will cross the entrails of
some time ago its rich mines of rock salt; earth, being delighted with the beautiful salt
they saturated this mineral by forced evaporation formations, the water mirrors, the well of desires,
to brine and in “gachas” of cooked clay, to the beauty of the Virgen del Carmen chapel, and
produce those white breads that had seen the heart of Nemocón (a salt stone of more than
conquerors. According to historians, it is not one ton, carved in the form of a heart).
possible to set an exact date of the foundation of
this population, which in 1537 are found by the
first Spanish explorers, such as the chibcha
major conglomerate center, for its salt mines and
their bountiful land under maize, potatoes,
turnips, bases of its feeding. Few months ago,
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