Patria and Mother Patria. The centenary holidays between 1910 and 1911 in Tunja

• Main Authors: Abel Fernando Martínez Martín, Andrés Ricardo Otálora Cascante
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia 2012-07-01
• Series: Historia y Memoria
• Subjects: Patria; Fiesta Nacional; Independencia; Tunja
• Online Access: http://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/historia_memoria/article/view/825

The current article aims at describing the holidays of the National Independence Centenary (1900) and the proclamation of Tunja’s Constitution (1911) within the frame of the centenaries decade (1910-1919) carried out in Tunja, and seen since the celebrations of the bicentenaries. These celebrations through which the Boyacá Department social elite, such as the Government House and Dioceses articulated a process re-conciliating the new nation with the old metropolis, regarding the discourse and the public holiday through Tunja’s center of history (1905) and the patriotic history in the pursuit of progress, modernity and the peace of the “Boyacense town”, historical construction that was seeking the creation of a political community appealing to the national memory. A systematic search was carried out in order to develop this work by means of the regional, national and press iles since the beginning of the twentieth century.