PLACES TO
VISIT
The
large house of the Rural Club “El Bosque: ( 5 minutes by car from Silvania): It is a colonial House built in
1827, social headquarters of the Rural Club. It was part of the large farm “El Chocho”.
That house was reconstructed in
the 1906, remodelled in 1975. Its
decoration is of great stile and
surrounded by beautiful trees like
chicalaes, hobos, rubber. Etc. It is posible to enter paying a fixed rate per day.
The Hill of “Peñas Blancas”, settlement San José : sacred hill
for the aboriginal Sutagaos, around traces have been found.
*Camino Real of Subia: To arrive it’s possible to take from
the main road in Subia, passing by the “Mirador” farm: along the path there
is a fence in stone that exists since the natives period, walking we arrives at
the Great Slab stone of Subia.
*Ancient rocky art of Subia
Location: Settlement of
Subia Pedregal, Farm “El Mirador”, private property, 5 minutes in
car and 25 minutes on foot from main street.
Characteristic:
Behind the house, inside a rocky shelter the are native’s hand
and a foot engraved on the rock, in another stone set against the house
you can observe spirals, triangles, frogs, human figures, also two circles
united by a line. It is possible to
observe a basin carved in stone, that could be a stone of sacrifices.
ECOTURISM PLACES TO VISIT
*Echo park “Punto Verde” (in the High
way, urban area in Fusagasuga. 5 minute by car fron Silvania.
Restaurant and Organic
processes demonstration, , how to
obtain humus , recycling trash, rabbits, chickens, ducks.
Kenga
Botanical garden (in the Setlement “La Victoria”
Exotic gardens, orchids, bromelias, heliconias, palm trees etc. There is a
House- museum which inside
has sculptures., paintings, antiquities,
art in iron. It is possible to do ecological walks.
---WHERE TO BUY HAND CRAFT ---.
WICKERWORK CRAFTS
*Animal
elaborate in wickerwork. of great creativity (horses, tortoises, roosters
etc.)
They can be
acquired in the different shops crafts along the high way.
*Cages in
wickerwork; elaborated with exhaustiveness, creativity and good finished.
They can be
acquired in the different shops crafts along the high way.
CRAFTS IN WOOD
* boats and carriages . elaborated in wood and fabric, there are done in a in a meticulous way
They can be
acquired in the different shops crafts along the high way.
*Bags:
elaborate in pine wood , fabric, leather, wire with hand painted
accessories.
They can be
bought in « ART AND FOLKLOR ». Km. 83, Cel: 300866720. Artisan Jairo López
