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A través del arte, el hostal Casa Colibrí trata de resignificar un espacio que por años fue una olla en el centro de Bogotá. Así lo explica Carlos Alaguna, propietario de este lugar, quien aprendió en sus viajes por el mundo que debía retribuirle algo a la ciudad que lo vio nacer.

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00:22Well, the Callejón was a place that was not very recognized, but we knew that it was a
00:27wall of the historical center of Bogotá, because before the construction of the
00:32ambiental in the year 99, I was talking about the whole decade of the 90's, the
00:37Callejón was used as a hideout for thieves, for hiding things, for fights, for people
00:47from the street who would come to do any kind of crazy things. There was no kind of control
00:52and no one was able to enter because it was a street without exit.
00:59When I enter and see the house, I see that the potential is very big, given the architecture
01:05that it has, the open space that it has, the garden with the trees, the option of having
01:12animals, holding hammocks, having a scene, having a bar, those kinds of details and characteristics
01:19me impulsan a mí a verlo desde otro punto de vista, como imaginándomelo, cómo iba a
01:24hacerlo.
01:30There has also been a social process where we have been able to help people from the
01:34sector or those who live around, to demonstrate that with murals, for example, with art,
01:40you can clean up and give an energy very different to any place. It is not any space, we are
01:45talking about the historical center of Bogotá, we are in front of the Parque
01:48of the Periodists, and this is a place that has been hundreds of years of history
01:54of Bogotá and has been part of the history of Bogotá as to forget and abandon it.
02:06The people who come to the country realize that the media has given us a lot of stereotypes
02:13and other things that we can finish or improve.
02:23The hotel is basically a place of accommodation, but focused a little bit more
02:30on social areas, to share with other people, to meet people, different from the hotel.
02:36The hotel is a little bit more for one to be in your house, to see television, to go and
02:40do something and go back to your house.
02:44There are trees, there are uchubas, there are aguacates that fall from once in a while,
02:49there are cerezas, there are a palmier, there are a gallo, there are dogs, there are
02:52dogs, there are aves.
02:56I am from the fantastic Lucho Hermúez, in the city of Colombia.
03:03For me, in the reality, it was because he did the cumbia here in the country,
03:08there are a lot of people who have been here in the country.
03:22I have lived a great part of my life here in Bogotá, and I also had the opportunity to
03:29go to the city of Colombia.
03:29I have been here several times from the country, I have lived in different countries,
03:32and so I have traveled to several countries where I have seen these ideas of hotels,
03:38of tourism, and so I come back to Colombia with this idea, and with this project that I
03:44continue to develop and that I continue to work every day.
03:54The money is a medium, but it is not a fine. I think that with the money you can do
03:59many things
04:00in benefit of others, but when the money is only focused on what you buy for you
04:06and your needs, then we become a little egoistic society.
04:12It is very sad, I believe, to get to the end of my life with a lot of money in
04:15the
04:15hands, but only.
04:26The Colibrí has had a meaning of representation of energies, of gods, of dreams, of dreams.
04:35The Colibrí has always been represented by many communities and has been an important part
04:42of the cultural development of indigenous communities in what today is the Colombian territory.
04:51I think traveling is like reading a book,
04:53I think it is important to find yourself, to find yourself, to see life from different
04:58points of view, and I think that being able to go out of your culture,
05:04so be it from your own city, it is able to interpret a different vision of life,
05:10of what we are as a society and as a race.
05:12What do you think?
05:24If you want a beautiful woman, I think that being able to do a lot of things,
05:27If you want a beautiful woman to the world of things,
05:33that being difficult for a lot of things.
05:34I think that being able to do the role of the heart
05:36is that assessment.
05:38I think that being able to see yourself,
05:39but suddenly, it is great to see the world out of the world.
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