Villa De Leyva in Popular Culture
- Part of the film Cobra Verde by Werner Herzog was filmed here.
- A Spanish-language soap opera version of the Zorro story has been filmed here, as of 2007, by the Colombian production company RTI, distributed in the United States by Telemundo.
- Florentino Ariza, the main character of the book and film Love in the Time of Cholera spends part of his life here.
- Antonio Ricaurte, Captain in Bolivar's army, active in the war of independence of Venezuela and Colombia, was born in Villa de Leyva.
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