Bogotá, Colombia
Álvaro Andrés Cardona Gómez on where to find the best cafés, libraries, and manly manicures of the new post-FARC era.
ON A HIGH PLATEAU in the Colombian Andes, some 9,000 feet above sea level, Bogotá, a bustling capital of 8 million, is a city to rival New York, Mexico City, and São Paulo.
Colombia’s largest city is flush with culture—vibrant cafes, plentiful libraries and bookshops, art galleries and museums. It has earned a reputation for car bombs and violent left-wing guerrilla movements, but it is also known as the “Athens of Latin America.”
The country’s 52-year conflict with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) officially ended with a peace deal last November. Today, Bogotá’s colorful if gritty
