House of the Bagatela
building in Norte de Santander, Colombia
The House of the Bagatela (Casa de la Bagatela) or Government House was the seat of executive power in Colombia in 1821. At the time of the Congress, this house had two levels that were demolished by the 1875 Cúcuta earthquake.
This was the house of the Colombian vice-presidents Roscio, Azuola, Antonio Nariño and Castillo.
It was reconstructed in 1971 by the Ministerio de Obras Públicas (Ministry of Public Works). The name of la Bagatela ("The Triviality") was given to it by a person who inhabited it 40 years ago, who wanted to remember la Bagatela, the newspaper founded by Antonio Nariño in Bogotá in 1812, during the time of the "Patria Boba". However, in Villa del Rosario, the first official newspaper was Gaceta de Colombia and not la Bagatela.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “House of the Bagatela” as building in Norte de Santander, Colombia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as building in Norte de Santander, Colombia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5915589. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1821, 1875, 1971 and 1812.
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