NATURAL ORDER

The ENTRANCE RIDGE TO LA QUINTA DE BOLIVAR settled down an axis East-West in order to distribute symmetrically the jardinieres in geometric forms and the roads, in European-style, like in French palaces. The cypresses and walnuts were also seeded in a geometric way to side and side of the same ridge.

The Bogotá’s plan of 1849 made by Agustín Codazzi, shows the neoclassic layout of the garden of La Quinta, that already had two marble fountains ordered by Jose Ignacio París to Pietro Tenerani (1789-1869), an Italian sculptor. He also ordered the statue that later was placed in La Plaza Mayor (Main Square of Bogotá).

This neoclassic tradition as the historian Gabriel Giraldo Jaramillo makes reference, liked by the independence heroes and the rising Republic, inherited of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic presence in Europe and that is also reflected in the remembrance and comparison that Bolivar does of this Quinta with Italian villas that he knew in his youth.

Oasis | Natural Order | Eastern Water | Honours to the Hero | Beauties of the Garden | Seeding Future | Painting and Seeding | Sun and Shadow | The Mestizo Sowing Time | The Andean Forest | The Oasis Overflown