The Casa Natal del General Santander (lit., "Birth house of General Santander") is the birthplace of the Colombian General

Francisco de Paula Santander Francisco José de Paula Santander y Omaña (Villa del Rosario, Norte de Santander, Colombia, April 2, 1792 – Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia, May 6, 1840), was a Colombian military and political leader during the 1810–1819 independ ...

, and is where he lived until the age of 13. It is in the municipality of Villa del Rosario in

Cúcuta Cúcuta (), officially San José de Cúcuta, is a Colombian municipality, capital of the department of Norte de Santander and nucleus of the Metropolitan Area of Cúcuta. The city is located in the homonymous valley, at the foot of the Eastern ...

, along the International Highway to Venezuela. The building now holds a museum that contains many of Santander's possessions, including his uniform and swords. The house is in the

Park of the Great Colombia The El Parque de la Gran Colombia (Spanish for Greater Colombia Park or Park of the Greater Colombia) is an historical and tourist complex located in the locality of Villa del Rosario (Cúcuta). It is in the 6th km of International Highway to Ven ...

, which also contains the historic church of Cúcuta (where the

Colombian Constitution of 1821 The Constitution of Cúcuta, also known as Constitution of the Gran Colombia and Constitution of 1821, was the founding document and constitution of the Republic of Colombia (historiographically called Gran Colombia), unifying the territories o ...

was written and signed), and the House of the Bagatela, the seat of Colombia's government in its early years. Image:Casa_de_Francisco_de_Paula_Santander.jpg, The house of Francisco Santander Image:Testamento de Francisco de Paula Santander.jpg, Testament of

Santander Santander may refer to: Places * Santander, Spain, a port city and capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain * Santander Department, a department of Colombia * Santander State, former state of Colombia * Santander de Quilichao, a m ...

Image:Discurso de Francisco de Paula Santander.jpg, Speech of

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