BOGOTA, May 5 — On Sundays in Ciudad Bolivar, one of Bogota’s poorest neighbourhoods, residents are treated to the incongruous sight of tourists riding the cable car that on...
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A woman passes in front of graffiti during a tour of the Ciudad Bolivar neighbourhood in Bogota April 14, 2024. — AFP picBOGOTA, May 5 — On Sundays in Ciudad Bolivar, one of Bogota’s poorest neighbourhoods, residents are treated to the incongruous sight of tourists riding the cable car that on weekdays transports thousands of workers to their jobs.
“We wanted to remove some of the stigma attached to Ciudad Bolivar, using art,” Luisa Sabogal, a 24-year-old inhabitant of the neighbourhood and co-creator of the Bogota Colours project, told AFP.Sabogal and her colleague May Rojas started their project in 2016, summoning dozens of lobal and international street artists to paint neighbourhood walls and the facades of homes.
What used to be an 80-minute ride on local buses via narrow, winding, mostly unpaved roads to exit the neighbourhood is now a quarter-of-an-hour by air, according to the International Finance Corporation, a World Bank body that supported the project.The tourist guide May Rojas talks with tourists during a tour of the Ciudad Bolivar neighbourhood in Bogota April 14, 2024.
“The goal is that Ciudad Bolivar becomes one of the main tourist sites of Bogota” through investment in local businesses and infrastructure, said Santamaria.
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