Culture of Bucaramanga

In 1995, the administration of Mayor Luis Fernando Peña Cote decided to convert Gabriel Turbay Public Library to host the newly created Municipal Institute of Culture, attributing the role of the library building as Gabriel Turbay operating space management institute, which has meant the movement of areas of the library to use the administrative area of the Municipal Institute of Culture. The creation of the Municipal Institute of Culture was conceived in order to expand the possibilities of sponsoring culture in the metropolitan area. But as the culture has not traditionally played a leading role in local government, colleges do not receive sufficient funding and incentives to fulfill their purposes for which they were created and performed his job as budget allows.

This Institute provides library services, art workshops, presenting a variety of shows and cultural work with the different neighborhoods of the city, just as sponsoring cultural activities with private initiative and has cultural radio station (Station Cultural Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento) on 100.7 FM dial.

Gastronomy

In Bucaramanga, you can find all kinds of Restaurant specialize in all types of cuisine (international, specialized, typical, fast), a significant number of restaurants are located in the header area of Llano. Typical dishes from the kitchen Santander, you can highlight the Santander-mute a soup made from various grains and accompanied by various types of meat-, the fricassee, a preparation of viscera and blood of goat or mixed with white rice camuro and accompanied by roasted kid. Oread meat, corn arepa pela'o, Santander and the tamale sobrebarriga are other prized meals.

The ants culonas are perhaps the most striking of the food Santander, are abundant