Wonderful Places In Medellin
Botero Plaza and Museum of Antioquia
Surrounded by the Museum of Antioquia and the Rafael Uribe Uribe Palace of Culture, is a 7,000 m2 outside park that displays 23 sculptures by Colombian artist Fernando Botero, who donated these and several other artworks for the museum's renovation in 2004. The plaza is located in downtown Medellin.
Metrocable
The Metrocable is a permanent rapid transportation system of a cable car type for urban passenger mobilization in Medellin..
Medellin was the first city in the world to implement a cable car system as a full-time means of public transport, in addition to using it with social projection.
The metrocable is complementary to the Medellin metro, and serves the transportation needs of some of the less favored sectors of the city, such as the northeastern and central-western neighborhoods. This system has served to integrate some areas of difficult access with the Medellin Metro.
The EPM Water Museum
This museum is a place full of magic, a citizen space for culture and education in which visitors can learn everything about the most precious vital resource: water.It is a thematic museum of science, art and technology, which allows its visitors to experience incredible experiences that challenge their knowledge, their senses and their capacity for wonder.
The EPM Water Museum is located in the Parque de los Pies Descalzos and opens its doors from Tuesday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.and on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 9:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. The last entry is two hours before closing time.
For more information click here:
www.grupo-epm.com/site/museodelagua
Pueblito Paisa
The Pueblito Paisa is one of the most visited tourist sites in the city that combines three elements that we all love: the Antioquia tradition that is reflected in the crafts, gastronomy and architecture of the place; the majestic view of Medellín and the mountains that run through the Aburrá Valley.
The Botanical Garden of Medellín
The Botanical Garden of Medellín Joaquín Antonio Uribe has an extension of 13.2 hectares. It has a venue for events called the Orquideorama, an architectural place for the exhibition of flowers. The Garden has the status of being a center of culture and environmental and botanical education, of enormous floristic wealth, and houses more than 1000 living species. Today it has become a monument to nature.
Parque Explora
Parque Explora is an interactive museum for the appropriation and dissemination of science and technology. With 22 thousand square meters of internal area and 15 thousand of public squares that houses more than 300 interactive experiences, a Children's room, aauditoriums, temporary exhibition rooms and the largest freshwater Aquarium in Latin America (which recreates two ecosystems at risk: tropical rainforest and coral reefs).
Parque de la Conservación
Located in the old Hacienda Santa Fe -in the heart of Medellín- the Parque de la Conservación offers its visitors the opportunity to live a fascinating experience of getting closer to animals and their world. Aware of the global environmental problem, it assumes the commitment to contribute to the conservation of natural resources and to citizen training, through the development of environmental education programs, captive reproduction programs, rehabilitation and reintroduction of threatened native species.
TOWNS IN ANTIOQUIA TO VISIT
JARDIN
Jardin is one of the tourist places in Antioquia and throughout Colombia which is fully involved in responsible and conscious tourism.
Jardin is one of the most beautiful towns in Antioquia and the most romantic in Colombia. A small place that will make you fall in love with colorful houses, parks with huge flowering trees, cobbled streets, and with its Antioquia architecture that gives it a bohemian atmosphere that is hard to match.
JERICÓ
Jericó, is one of the towns near Medellín, which will fascinate you because of the majestic mountains and the peaceful nature that surrounds it and that makes this one of the most colorful towns in Antioquia in Colombia.
Jericó is often referred to as the hometown of Holy Mother Laura.However, this small town is more than religion and devotion, as it is one of the tourist destinations in Antioquia that makes part of the network of Heritage Villages of Colombia, where culture and traditions are reflected in its streets, museums and churches.
GUATAPE
Guatapé es uno de los pueblos de Antioquia Guatapé is one of the most colorful towns in Antioquia, one of the places to visit near Medellín, where you will find houses adorned with baseboards, those sculptures that exhibit all kinds of traditional crafts and places, which were previously built to protect homes from the voracity of moisture. However, Guatape is known worldwide for the Piedra del Peñol, a huge monolith of 220 meters high and 60,000 tons, which has more than 650 steps that culminates in the incredible viewpoint from which it is possible to appreciate a large part of the reservoir.
However, Guatape is known worldwide for the Piedra del Peñol, a huge monolith of 220 meters high and 60,000 tons, which has more than 650 steps that culminates in the incredible viewpoint from which it is possible to appreciate a large part of the reservoir.
SANTA FE DE ANTIOQUIA
Santa Fe de Antioquia is a Colombian Heritage Town that keeps the most important historical treasures of the colonial and republican period in the department of Antioquia.
Located an hour and a half from Medellin. You can get to Santa Fe de Antioquia by land, along the highway that goes to Urabá in Antioquia. It has a warm climate that is between 25 and 35 degrees Celsius, where you will be surprised by the vegetation of the city's parks, and the ornamentation of the houses that you see when you walk through its cobbled streets under the blue sky.
