Focusing on the experience of traveling through an urban space and the meanings it generates, the article proposes an analysis of some key symbolic elements of the urban dialect through which the inhabitants of Bogotá conceive and communicate their urban experiences with the physical dimension of the metropolis. The analysis allows one to see how Bogotá, from its historical beginnings, has been imagined and symbolized as a complex miscellany of famous cities of the Western world, reflected in the multiplicity of its architectures as well as in the naming of its neighborhoods. The article formulates the hypothesis that this dynamic is sustained by the imperious desire of a more universal and distributive habitat of coexistence, in a city still dominated by casts and exclusion of the different ones.