Zipaquirá is a central city of Colombia, northeast of Bogotá. It is known for the underground Salt Cathedral, a church in a vast salt mine that has the Stations of the Cross carved into the rock salt. Just outside there is a monument to the miners. The Archaeological Museum of Zipaquira has pre-Columbian artifacts. The House of Nobel Gabriel García Márquez is a cultural center in a building where the writer studied in the 1940s.