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Plaza Bicentenario
Plaza Bicentenario
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A small public park about 200 metres from the town centre, built around a fish monument and a fountain. It is open at any hour and costs nothing to visit.
The fish monument and the fountain are the features, and the single review the plaza has names both. It is a modest square rather than a landmark.
As a pause rather than a destination. Its appeal, according to the one visitor who has written about it, is getting away from the noise of the main plaza a couple of hundred metres away — which on a busy weekend in Guatapé is worth something.
One. That is not enough to say anything reliable about it, so what is certain is only the location, the monument, and that it is a public space with no gate.
About 200 metres from both the Guatapé town centre and the malecón, with La Piedra 2.4 km away. It sits between the two, so you pass it walking from the plaza down to the water.
Whenever the main plaza is full, which in practice means weekend afternoons. It is open around the clock and lit at night.
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