structures, environment, activities and customs of Popayan, the colonial city, founded in the mid-sixteenth century, a period where it was considered important administrative and commercial center have changed.
The city, beyond being conceived as an urban entity with high population density, which is dominated mainly manufacturing and services, today discovered a symbolic network in constant construction and expansion, a view that has been built urban studies, for example, through the urban imaginary raised by Armando Silva. Popayán
is narrated no longer with the nostalgia of the poets who see the change, the destruction of his ideal city, however, is becoming Popayán narrated by men and women of flesh and bone that make use of spaces and internalization where life develops.
historians and poets have taken as an object of study and as a muse to inspire a lively city, which survives in the middle of the suburbs, that of smoke trails that lead to broken dreams, sounds quiet but to deafen, Hollow-faced and screaming for no echo.
The city that never existed, but we always dreamed of it was starting to become real.
To further explore the issue we have invited the historian Charles Sicard and the poet and writer Felipe García Quintero who will give us different views from its city vision.
__________________ Felipe García Quintero, poet and writer. Teaching Social Communication Program at the University of Cauca.
Charles Sicard, historian and professor at the Universidad del Cauca.
Behind the white walls lurks another city. Discover it Eco Shadow.
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