As an obligatory activity in Zipaquirá is the visit to the new Salt Cathedral inaugurated in 1995. Located inside a salt mine, it is part of the 'Parque de la Sal', a thematic cultural space dedicated to mining, geology and resources. natural. Unique of its kind in the world and one of the seven wonders of the modern world, it has been recognized since 2007 as the first wonder of Colombia and considered one of the most notable architectural and artistic achievements of Colombian architecture. 

Located in the Villaveces Park, this museum permanently preserves and exhibits more than 1,000 archaeological pieces from fourteen pre-Hispanic cultures, showing how the indigenous people lived and their relationship with the environment. The tour is guided.

Housed in a colonial-republican-style mansion, the Guillermo Quevedo Zornoza House Museum is a place where part of the history, culture, customs and musical tradition of our city is exhibited. 

Here you can find the therapy salt experience which is a 20-minute session at a cost of $30,000 pesos per person, and which has a maximum capacity of 3 people. To access this experience you must first call and make an appointment, upon arrival a small kit is delivered with a salt rock with which you can then do a self-massage. Inside the salon you can immerse your skin in salt, listen to relaxing music, do a self-exfoliation with salt, you can play with a zen garden, do a self-massage with the salt rock and the Artensal massage candle and at the end you can place your feet on some lamps of salt that help to make a complete relaxation through the energy

Formerly known as the house of Don Salvador Algarra (El Alférez Real). In this house of republican and colonial architecture, Gabriel García Márquez was educated for four years and graduated in 1946 with a bachelor's degree from the National Lyceum for Men; to pay homage to him, in this house there is a museum proposal to expose Gabo's life in Zipaquirá and the city's influence on his literary craft, there some spaces of the institution are recreated that will move visitors to the step of the young " Gabito” through the classrooms, the school restaurant, the library, the patios, the rooms, among others, as well as his relationship with classmates, teachers, friends and neighbors.

One block from the transport terminal is the square that was known in colonial times as 'Villaroel' park, there is the famous obelisk dedicated to commemorating the creation in 1905 of the department of Quesada, whose capital was Zipaquirá. Originally, the names of the 6 provinces that made it up were carved on the 6 faces of its base. At the end of 1915, as a tribute to the six Zipaquireño martyrs and the heroines who fell under the regime of terror, executed on August 3, 1816 (Municipal Civic Day), their names were engraved on the obelisk.

Its original name was Plaza de Agustín Zapata, in this place the market square of the city functioned until a few years ago. To commemorate the bicentennial of independence, it was transformed into the Plaza de la Independencia, there is a sculpture of the precursor Antonio Nariño and the water fountain that was once located in the Plaza de los Comuneros. To complement the cultural value, the city's leisure and gastronomy offer, restaurants, cafes and bars that adorn the colonial buildings that surround the square are located in this square.

Surrounded by narrow streets, beautiful balconies and colonial and republican buildings, among which the municipal palace, the government house and the Diocesan Cathedral stand out, the Plaza de los Comuneros is located in the center of the city. This open square was the scene of the first revolution in the Americas: the signing of the communal capitulations in 1781, hence its historical and cultural value. In its periphery is the epicenter of commerce, the public sector and the financial sector of our city.

The Train Station is a French neoclassical style construction, inaugurated on December 8, 1927 and was known as the Tres Esquinas station. It was an important point of commercial and industrial interest in the center of the country during the rise of the train between the decades of the 20s and the 70s in the last century and declared a National Monument according to Decree 0746 of 1996.

On the north side of the Plaza de los Comuneros is the diocesan cathedral of Zipaquirá, a stupendous work of classical romantic style designed by the Spanish Capuchin architect Fray Domingo Pérez de Petrés. It is the center of Christian culture and tradition in Zipaquirá and is consecrated to the Holy Trinity and Saint Anthony of Padua. Its construction began in 1804 to replace and on the same site as the Franciscan doctrinal church (1604) that had been built by the corregidor Pedro de Tovar y Buendía, and where the Communal Capitulations were sworn in 1781. After 111 years of process, it was inaugurated and consecrated on November 9, 1870, finished in 1916, and finally exalted to Cathedral in 1952, the year in which the Diocese of Zipaquirá was created. The clock that is located in one of its towers was brought from London and installed on August 10, 1873.

On the left side of the train station and since 2014, the Zipaquirá craft station foundation is located, a group of 11 artisans who joined their talent to make their art known, give the option to choose souvenirs and rescue the Zipaquirá cultural identity.