Passage of Vargas


The Vargas Passage It is a pedestrian path located in the center of Tunja, Colombia. It is an important pedestrian passage of the city and around it are several warehouses and some of the oldest cafes in the city. It preserves in some sectors evidences of constructions of the modern time and is a place of encounter very frequented. The passage was opened to the trade of the Vargas family.

The writer Diego Grismaldo Sandoval describes this scenario as follows:

"This is why the shoes of the unemployed, of politicians in a suit and cheap perfume, of those that abound in Boyacá, artists, poets, young students, elderly people whose roots are planted in this space and wander through he without any purpose, walks the bare feet of those who did not adapt very well to the city but insist on staying in it, pass the law, with criminals next door, greet each other and go their way. "

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