Colombia - My Wishlist Sights

Colombia is a country in the north west of South America, sharing borders with Venezuela, and Ecuador,  

Bogota  - the capital

The capital is in the centre.

What is is on my wishlist?

1 The Botero Museum

Sculpture by Botero in Bogota, capital of Coloumbia.

Has lots of sculptures by Botero, known for his contented curby ladies, people, aniamls and birds. I first saw his horse in a Singapore subub by a railway station exit. Then a big baby bird on the waterfornt in the commercial city centre.

2 Bogota, a big city and culutral capital, has other art, culture and history museums. My second must see is the gold museum.

3 The free museum about Falc and other terrorist organizations tamed worldwide and now at peace. Maybe a glimmer of hope.

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New, Second Statue of Singer-Songwriter Shakira in Barranquilla, Colombia

In December 2023 Shakira, the Grammy award winning singer-songwriter, was honoured by a huge statue of herself dancing, in her home town of Barranquilla, in Colombia.  The statue is 21 feet high. Shakira also has a Shakira Day, September 29th.  The statue echoes her song, hips don't lie.

The city already had a statue of Shakira with a guitar. This has been there since 2018.

Her home town is known for its four day carnival.

Statue of Shakira with a guitar, in Barranquilla, Colombia
 

This picture or her was taken in 2011. very glamorous yet down to earth.

Picture credit

Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires - 11.03.05 Macri y Shakira visitan un Centro de Primera Infancia

Shakira in 2011.

 She is now, in 2023, aged 46 years.

back in 2007 Shakira said,

I’ve always lived through my mouth. I am fixated on chocolate, the spoken word, things I’ve said and the things I should never have said.

• On what she considers her oral fixations in “Shakira” in Outlook India Magazine (2007 Apr 9) in da club w ma twin 

On her official website you can buy teeshirt tote bags a mug at 27 not cheap, and a bucket hat. She also has perfume.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-67826941

https://people.com/shakira-receives-statue-in-her-colombian-hometown-of-barranquilla-8420265

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