Traditional Cafes from the Capital: A Look at the Coffee Culture

Abstract

This article was developed as a result of the study conducted in the course Culture and Heritage, from the Faculty of Habitat Sciences. It intends to rebuild the history and culture developed around Bogotá’s traditional cafes throughout the 20th Century considering the patrimonial values that have been ignored so far. It identifies the cultural, spatial, intellectual, artistic and literary values that were developed around such cafes to set a precedent for future studies that will allow the inclusion of today’s agonizing cafes, located in downtown Bogota, in the inventory of immovable cultural property of the Instituto Distrital de Patrimonio Cultural.