Quevedo Zornoza House Museum

Around 1840, the Scottish engineer and merchant Alejandro Mac Douall buys a lot with a ranch, in the center of Zipaquirá, where he builds an immense Republican-style house with Colonial reminiscences, in adobe, wooden structures and covered in clay tiles. It is precisely in this house where a large part of the cultural history of Zipaquirá, its customs and traditions currently rests, the Quevedo Zornoza House Museum. The illustrious Poet of the Symbolic Grotto, Don Roberto Mac Douall, was born in this house.
Around the seventies of the nineteenth century, Doña Carolina Quevedo Arvelo and brothers, sons of the Venezuelan General Nicolas Quevedo Rachadell, a very important teacher and musician of the nineteenth century in Colombia, personal friend and aide of the Liberator Simón Bolívar, with whom he arrived in Colombia.

Important was the Musical Academy of the Quevedo, which for several years operated in this house and will be part of the local, regional and national artistic life. It houses this House, one of the most important historical relics of Zipaquirá, LA PUERTA DE LOS MÁRTIRES ZIPAQUIREÑOS; This house offers a place to strengthen relationships La Fuente de los Candados.