THE CULTURAL LIFE OF THE ANCIENT BOGOTA’S PEOPLE
Bogota was a city isolated enough, since the road links were very precarious. Only at the end of the century this isolation was yielding thanks to the railroad and some roads that put in touch with the river Sponge-cake and across this one with the Caribbean coast.
In the decade of the sixties, writers of diverse trends gathered in crowds about the magazine Mosaic, founded and directed by Jose Maria Vergara y Vergara, and shaped one of the first attempts of telling the history of the Colombian literature and of consolidating the cultural identity of the country.
The cultural life of the city was centering in the literary gatherings that during the 19th century allowed the persons to share their literary and political worries and to be present at musical presentations and of dramatic works. In the Theatre Maldonado there were carried out representations of theatre and of opera and already at the end of the 19th century Bogota was possessing two important theatres: Christopher Colón's Theatre, inaugurated in 1892, and the Municipal Theatre, inaugurated in 1895, which was offering operettas and musical magazines.
During the 19th century, in spite of the constant raisings and the civil wars that altered the normal development of the new republic, in Bogota there were remaining the traditions and customs that were going back to the colonial epoch, combined with some European influences. In the meetings and in the gatherings they were imposed certain show restraint and refreshments: the chocolate with collations and sweets elaborated in the houses was served in the nights, and the potato and chili stew turned into the local dish. In the night parties one was touching in the piano the musical pieces of local composers, and in the most numerous meetings the corridor was danced.
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Bogota was a city isolated enough, since the road links were very precarious. Only at the end of the century this isolation was yielding thanks to the railroad and some roads that put in touch with the river Sponge-cake and across this one with the Caribbean coast.
In the decade of the sixties, writers of diverse trends gathered in crowds about the magazine Mosaic, founded and directed by Jose Maria Vergara y Vergara, and shaped one of the first attempts of telling the history of the Colombian literature and of consolidating the cultural identity of the country.
The cultural life of the city was centering in the literary gatherings that during the 19th century allowed the persons to share their literary and political worries and to be present at musical presentations and of dramatic works. In the Theatre Maldonado there were carried out representations of theatre and of opera and already at the end of the 19th century Bogota was possessing two important theatres: Christopher Colón's Theatre, inaugurated in 1892, and the Municipal Theatre, inaugurated in 1895, which was offering operettas and musical magazines.
During the 19th century, in spite of the constant raisings and the civil wars that altered the normal development of the new republic, in Bogota there were remaining the traditions and customs that were going back to the colonial epoch, combined with some European influences. In the meetings and in the gatherings they were imposed certain show restraint and refreshments: the chocolate with collations and sweets elaborated in the houses was served in the nights, and the potato and chili stew turned into the local dish. In the night parties one was touching in the piano the musical pieces of local composers, and in the most numerous meetings the corridor was danced.
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