One of the things to do in Ibagué is to spend a morning shopping on the boulevard of Carrera Tercera. This is a key point for commerce in the center of Ibagué. Most commercial establishments open from 7:30 am to 9:00 pm, but from very early you can see a large number of Ibaguereños and tourists walking through its streets or riding bicycles.
When you walk through it you will see different types of commercial establishments, street musicians, street vendors of very strange things, important buildings, and some nearby monuments such as:
- Sonata, Homage to the Musical Soul of the Tolimenses
- 10th Street Fountain
- Bamboo bag
- Musical monolith
- Monument to Garzón and Collazos
- Manuel Murillo Torres Square
- Tolima Government Building
- Tolima Theater
Carrera Tercera is also the main street in the center of Ibagué for the Ibagué festivities on the occasion of San Juan and San Pedro that take place from the second week of June.
How to get to Carrera Tercera Ibagué?
Carrera Tercera is a pedestrian thoroughfare located in the center of Ibagué between 10th Street and 15th Street. You can get there on foot from Parque Centenario or Simón Bolívar Park. During the day this section is pedestrian only but at night cars can pass through it.
Commercial establishments
As for establishments, you can find restaurants, banks, clothing stores, shoes, and varieties, are some of them:
- Bancolombia
- Colpatria Bank
- Davivienda Bank
- Murillo Toro Park
- Government of Tolima
- First Notary of Ibagué
- Bank of the West
- Cobeima Shopping Center
- Frisby Chickens
- Ará Stores
- The temple of fashion
- Alba Stationery
History
It is said that in the third race the city of Ibagué was born. At first, it was a narrow road, less than six meters wide; formed with earth and stones along its route and was known as Calle del Comercio.
At that time, it connected peasants and merchants with Plaza Bolívar to buy and sell merchandise. In the middle of the years, in addition to being an obligatory path to transport items, military parades, political protests, and funeral marches also began to be held where all these social dynamics revolved around the Third Race.
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