Abstract

GUILLERMO MARTIN, Juan  and  QUIROZ, Raquel Sofia. Archaeology in the capital of Great Colombia: Villa del Rosario, an example of glorious past reinvention. memorias [online]. 2015, n.27, pp.145-177. ISSN 1794-8886.  https://doi.org/10.14482/memor.27.7762.

By the late eighteenth century, Villa del Rosario was founded. This small town, located in the current border between Colombia and Venezuela, acquired special importance in the nineteenth century when the Congress and its church were installed in 1821. In this event Villa del Rosario was designated as capital of the new republic, known in historiography as the Great Colombia. From this historic event arises the legal structure of the new republic, through its Constitution, alsobecoming in stage of the independence process. However, an earthquake in the late of nineteenth century destroyed the town and forced population to abandon the ruins. In the early twentieth century, the search for asserting that glorious past, led to the reconstruction of the church where the 1821 Congress happened: The Historic Temple. The archaeological project in 2013, account for a different past, perhaps less ostentatious than the conventional wisdom had been built in the last hundred years.

Keywords : Historical archaeology; Great Colombia; Villa del Rosario; nation; identity.

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