Zipaquirá's Salt Cathedral

• A monumental architectural masterpiece built by

the miners' own hands and which became a
beautiful temple.
• The wonderful salt mine is in the town of
Zipaquira (Capital of the department of
Cundinamarca).
• This construction is 180 meters underground.
• To build it, 250 thousand tons of rock salt had to
be extracted. This mine is the largest deposit of
rock salt in the world.
• The people can smell the minerals and the
darkness takes hold of everything once is inside.
• This underground attraction has received more
than 13 million visitors from all around the world.
• Ten thousand foreign tourists and 40 thousand
Colombian tourists go there every month.
• Its structure, a mix of precise engineering and
interesting history, led it to be declared the First
Wonder of Colombia on February 4, 2007.
Attractions and features inside the mine

• The tour inside the Zipaquirá Salt Cathedral lasts 60 minutes.

• Weddings are also held in the cathedral.
• The miner's route is a guided tour during which tourists can
experience life as a miner, with staff and security teams. It
lasts 30 minutes.
• The Brine Museum, in the old structures where salt was
processed. Tour lasts 20 minutes.
• 3-D video taking a trip through the different geological stages
to show tourists how salt developed. 15 minutes. “Guasa,
treasure of a people”.
• Rock climbing wall: the highest in Colombia.
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wall
Las Lajas Sanctuary

The Most Beautiful

Church in Colombia
• Las Lajas Sanctuary is a Gothic Revival style church built inside a canyon
of the Guáitara river.
• Located in Ipiales city in the southern Colombian Department of Nariño.
• This Roman Catholic church is dedicated to the veneration of Our Lady
of Las Lajas Ipiales
• Las Lajas Sanctuary is arguably considered the most beautiful church in
Colombia.
• It’s also considered by many to be one of the most beautiful churches in
the world.
• The Las Lajas Sanctuary is famous for its stunning architecture and a
series of legends involving the appearance of the Holy Virgin and a
mysterious mural of which nobody knows the origins.
• According to local beliefs, the Virgin Mary appeared to a woman and
her deaf-mute daughter in 1754 at the same place where the Las
Lajas church is now standing.
• Many other cases of miraculous healing have been reported
over the years and more and more people traveled to see
the stone that had on it the image of Virgin Mary.
• Las Lajas Sanctuary received canonical coronation from the Vatican in
1952.
• The sanctuary was built between 1916 and 1949. It was built
with funding from donations from local parishioners.