Apuntes sobre la Calle Real. Recorrido por la Carrera Séptima desde la calle 11 hasta la Calle 26

The architectural itinerary represents a way of narrating the historical, documentary and patrimonial value of the buildings that build the city. A tour of the most consolidated section of Bogotá's Carrera Séptima (the oldest road in the Colombian capital), between Calle 11 and Calle 26, presents some of its most significant buildings and aims to be a tool to reconstruct and analyze the transformations that took place in the city since its foundation in 1538, by the Spanish conquistadors. The analysis of the buildings leads to different themes and events that occurred in this process, often related and intertwined with each other, such as the permanence of the colonial heritage; the change of roads nomenclature; the major projects and urban plans; historical, political and cultural memory; the traditional commercial vocation of what used to be called "Calle Real del Comercio"; the replacement of whole urban fabric blocks for the construction of the modern city; the transformation of the profile facades; the architectural repertoire, ancient and modern; the role of religious complexes for the social life of the community; the types of buildings according to the program of use, the relationship with the public space of the street, the scale and the urban structure of the city. Aspects that allow us to reconstruct the history of this important road axis, still incomplete and fragmented, reaffirming its heritage value and generating some reflections on the current condition of this part of the city.