TURISTIC SITES OF ARMENIA
PARQUE SUCRE
. To the north, eight hundred meters from Plaza de Bolívar, is the Sucre Park, a square where there is a bronze bust of the hero of the Colombian independence Antonio José de Sucre. Right here is a plate with bust, a tribute to the writer Carmelina Soto, considered one of the greatest Colombian poets. The Sucre Park has a pond with fishes and aquatic flora, as well as large trees like an immense ceiba, planted at the beginning of the 20th century by don Juan Crisóstomo Rivera (Toto).
PARQUE NACIONAL DEL CAFE
The National Coffee Park (Parque Nacional del Café) is a theme park located in the department of Quindío, Colombia, 4 km south-west of the town of Montenegro and 11 km west of the departmental capital city Armenia. The park can be reached from a cable car, offers attractions orchid animatronics colorful, global coffee garden, a roller coaster, food stalls based on coffee, Colombian folk architecture, and other attractions, totaling 22 attractions at the end of 2009. The park was founded in 1995 by the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia (La Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia) and the Departmental Committee of Coffee Growers of Quindío (El Comité Departamental de Cafeteros del Quindío). It consists of two main areas: by the main entrance are the buildings housing the museum and exhibitions detailing the history, culture and process of growing and producing coffee; and in the valley beyond is an amusement park with rides and shows. The two areas are linked by a cable car (gondola lift): it is also possible to walk between the two areas via an ecological trail that passes through a plantation of many varieties of coffee bushes. In 2009 the park received its 5 millionth visitor
PLAZA DE BOLIVAR
Of Armenia, as well as the Parque Sucre, is mixed with the Open Skies Shopping Center. The Plaza de Bolivar is the most important meeting place of Armenia. It has among its attractions the Monument to the Effort, great work of art made by the important sculptor Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt (Colombian pride). Surrounding the Plaza you will find comfortable benches to sit down to talk, have a good coffee and receive a nice service of lustracalzado. In the Plaza de Bolivar you will find the imposing and modern building of the Quindío Governorate (the highest building in Armenia), and the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Icon of the city for its avant-garde architectural design conceived by Guillermo Collazos Rubio under the Baton of the bishop Martínez Vargas
PARQUE LOS FUNDADORES
Is another of the geographical and historical referents of the city. It was built in the year 1963. Its design is a map of the city. In the central part of the park is the monument to the founders: the trunk and the ax, sculpture of the master Roberto Henao Buriticá that was inaugurated in the fiftieth anniversary of the city, October 14, 1939. On the south side there is a monument to the main Founder Jesús María Ocampo Toro, Tigrero, and his wife María Arsenia Cardona Buitrago, erected in 1998 by the sculptor Orlando Londoño. It is a mound, like a large stone on top of which there are some tiger heads, which reflects an ancient tomb, where are the remains of the couple.
