*CALI STORY 

*Santiago de Cali, capital of the department of Valle del Cauca, the second city of the Republic of Colombia, has witnessed 470 years of history. Warm and cheerful city, offers visitors-in addition to the already proverbial friendliness of its people, not a few places of interest, historical and architectural monuments, parks and museums, churches, streets wistfully us back in time .. ..

And when night falls, with its cool breeze, Cali opens up the infectious joy of its nightclubs, where salsa is danced with most of the skills. But there's more ...... because Cali, permanently pass the best interpreters of popular music, theater and finally all expressions of culture and the arts and their weekends in the beautiful recreation centers caleñas figure adorns the amplitude of its landscape.

Santiago de Cali is the epicenter of Colombia on the Pacific. Its people warm, cheerful and friendly, who receive with great affection and simplicity to its visitors, becomes the main attraction of this cosmopolitan city, national and international image. Sunny days are complemented by the pleasant breeze from the mountains by the Farallones caleñas cool evenings. However, the natural surroundings that the city, allow a few minutes to enjoy picnics with temperate environments.

The rivers and streams that surround the city are an attraction for the tourist to enjoy their stay. It also has a complete sports and recreational infrastructure, which makes model worldwide in the field of popular recreation.

Riverfront find Cali and around the tourist buildings and monuments that are the heritage of the city. Its museums and theaters also keep the tradition and grow in vegas. Nature is carefully tended, huge parks in the city center testify why the city deserves the title of Green Township Colombia.

Santiago de Cali is also a city whose infrastructure business provides all facilities for business meetings, accommodation, shopping, food and fun. The ongoing cultural and artistic activity has its best every two years in the Art Festival every December and is complemented by programming the Cali Fair.

La Sultana del Valle has a beautiful urban architecture point of convergence between contemporary achievements and traditional neighborhoods in which houses museums, churches and theaters today declared national monuments. These architectural values ​​have the most beautiful natural setting formed by the hills of Christ the King and the Three Crosses Hill and San Antonio. Santiago de Cali, the branch of the sky, thus becomes the ideal place to visit.

museums

Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia.

Archaeological Museum La Merced: 4th race # 6-59. Prehispanic ceramic samples of societies that inhabited the southwest of Colombia.

Religious and Colonial Museum of San Francisco: Street 9 # 5-59. Works from 1940 by the Franciscan community. Exposes primarily religious art.

Calima Gold Museum: headquarters of Banco de la República (7th Street between races 4 and 5th). Exposes gold pieces, ceramics, prepared by the Calima culture.

Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia: Avenida Colombia with West 5th Street. Founded in 1956 by Maritza Uribe Urdinola and reopened in its present building in 1962. Displays more than 300 works by national and international artists.

Archaeological Museum of the Universidad del Valle: Displays archaeological artifacts belonging to the pre-Hispanic period from the sixteenth to. C. and XVI d. C.

Cane Museum: at the intersection of Cr Cl 8 and 44. Founded in 1990, contains information modules on the cultivation and processing of sugarcane to produce sugar.

Department of Natural Sciences Museum Federico Carlos Lehmann Valencia: # 24-80 Roosevelt Ave. Founded in 1963. Science museum and zoo.

Natural History Museum: Race 2 west # 7-18. Opened in 1963, shows zoology and archeology collections.

Fuck Museum: Located in the mountains of Felidia to 17 Kms of Cali by way of the sea, is the first museum in Colombia joke.

National Transport Museum: Located next to the Alfonso Bonilla Aragon Airport and adjacent to the Zona Franca de Palmaseca, the Museum shows visitors antique automobiles, airplanes, locomotives, philately, modeling and others.

Religious Art Museum: Located in Race 4 No 6-56. Try religious themes are presented regularly in the Museum.

Theaters

Municipal Theatre.

Teatro Municipal Enrique Buenaventura, is currently the highest cultural center of the city. Opened in 1927, can accommodate 1,200 spectators, is neoclassical French.

Teatro Jorge Isaacs, has been one of the most traditional venues in the city, has a capacity for 1,187 spectators. Was built in 1931 by Herman Bohmer, in honor of Jorge Isaacs. Its architecture has influence of Italian romanticism. It was recently restored and conditioned. Declared a national monument in 1984, has one of the best acoustics in the country.

Outdoor theater Crystals, offers a varied program throughout the year. It has an area of ​​3,920 square meters corresponding to the architectural construction of outdoor theater, and has a capacity of 15,000 people.

Imaginary Theatre, Imaginary Theatre was founded in 1986 by Danilo Tenorio.

Latin Corner Theatre, founded in 1973 in Cali, had its origin in the Universidad del Valle.

Cali Theatre was founded in 1989 and at that time, has staged works by classical, modern and national.

House Theatre of Puppets was founded by Amelia Leonor Pérez, Gerardo Potes CEO and Artistic Director in the year 1998. Is fundamental for the development of the Cauca Valley culture. In the living puppets were presented groups worldwide (Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Turkey, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, among others), and more than 80,000 people have fun with the adventures of puppets in The House of Puppets.

The Curtain Theatre was a space built in 2000 by the theater group seeking to create technical conditions for their productions and offer the city another space to watch theatrical performances and lectures related to the artwork.

Theatre mask, is a cultural entity nonprofit, formed in the year 1972, dedicated to the research and creation of theater.

Teatro Experimental de Cali, was created in 1955 in the Department of Theatre School of Cali, department of Valle del Cauca in Colombia.

Cultural centers

FES Interior building, headquarters of the Cultural Center of Cali, the background is Proartes House.

Proartes Cultural House. Since 1871 the House Proartes has had great influence on the cultural life of Cali. The building was restored in 1991 and he's showrooms, stage and cinema.

Centro Cultural de Cali. Works in Building the FES. Since 1997, the city's cultural center and home to the Municipal Tourism and Culture.

Comfandi Cultural Center Santa Rosa. Located in the heart of the city, belongs to the family compensation fund of the same name. This center contains five floors divided into, Strathmore University Library, Adult Library, two art exhibitions rooms, multiple meeting rooms and an auditorium.

Gastronomy

The lulada is a typical drink of Valle del Cauca, especially in Cali.

Rice atollado.

Cali is a city with a rich cultural diversity and a sample of it, is their food, among which are the empanadas, tamales, rice atollao whose consistency is wet and is prepared with sausage, pork and yellow potatoes and delicious stew chicken.

Among the typical drinks must mention the famous shampoo, which is a drink made with corn, pineapple, pineapple and orange leaves. It is also very typical of the region cholao, a drink that is made with crushed ice, fruit pieces, essences and condensed milk

After the exquisite delight in Cali meal, you can also enjoy sweet desserts such as blancmange is a kind of white paste that is prepared with milk and sugar and served with bread, but can also be used as a filling for and alfajores cookies, coconut candies, jellies and potted leg and aborrajado Valley which is prepared with ripe banana and cheese are other desserts from this fate. The city has a variety of restaurants of various specialties.

Some of the more traditional meals:

Atollao Rice: Rice is a wet consistency with sausage, pork and yellow potatoes. Pandebono: Made with corn flour, fermented cassava starch, cheese and egg, which is kneaded, formed in small portions usually flattened and then baked. The Pandebono Used to accompany breakfast and snacks in the evenings.

Shampoos: traditional drink made with corn, pineapple, pineapple and leaves naranjo.Lulada: is one of the traditional drinks of gastronomy Cali and Valle del Cauca.

Blancmange: A delicious dessert made with milk and sugar, much like the caramel.

The cholado: fruit salad is typical of Cali and the department of Valle del Cauca. With a base of flake ice are added fruits, syrups of different flavors and condensed milk. Among the fruits used are: banana, green apple, kiwi, strawberry, coconut, papaya, pineapple.

Aborrajado: typical dessert that is prepared with plantains and cheese.

Cali Salsa

Feria de Cali.

The sauce is not originally born in Colombia and Cali. However, it has been adopted as their own, as their main sign of identity of Cali before and strangers. In the process of cultural development of Cali highlights events had much to do with the rise of salsa as a cultural symbol of Cali.