SHOPPING

Mayorca shopping center

The outlet of the big brands in the country and abroad

This shopping center has 250 stores, seven cinemas, a supermarket, a casino, a fitness center, an amusement park and varied cuisine.

Santa Fe Shopping Center

Play, have fun shopaholic

At Santa Fe Mall, while the kids play at being great at Divercity, theme park with 45 attractions, adults fall in love with the latest collection of domestic and foreign designers showcased in its 400 stores.

A place which has 42 eateries for all tastes, six cinemas, 2,700 parking spaces, 52 escalators, 8 panoramic lifts and 10 directories touch to guide the visitor.

for Christmas is a ice rink

Places of Tourist Interest

Among the major destinations in Medellín stand out

The Explora Park is an interactive Centre for the appropriation and dissemination of science and technology with 22 thousand square meters of internal area and 15 thousand of public squares. 

in the park there is a large aquarium

Municipal Planetarium Jesus Emilio Ramirez is one of the landmarks of the city whose main purpose was the dissemination of space science and related issues in the city of Medellin.

Medellin Botanical Garden Joaquin Antonio Uribe Botanical Garden is about 14 hectares, located in the Colombian city of Medellin. It has an important collection of orchids preserved in a scenario called Orquideorama, architectural for a flower show. The Garden has the status of being a center of culture and environmental education and botany, flora enormous wealth, and has more than 1,000 living species and 4,500 individuals.

It has a large butterfly

Town Planning

In recent years the city has experienced a process of urban transformation that has given national recognition and internacionales.Dicha transformation is based on social planning, public policy is to give priority to the poorest populations and territories, as well as victims of violence, in deeds and programs aimed at redressing social and physical fabric wounded.

METER

It is the first mass transit system to be built in Colombia

The subway runs through the south metro north Metro rail system combines with a system called Metrocable decable air which has been used for the first time ever in Medellin as permanent mass transportation

CULTURE

 
Gastronomy      

The cuisine of the city is diverse, it is possible to find in Medellin typical restaurants, international and specialized in different places in the city. The main sectors where a variety of restaurants are: avenida las Palmas, avenida el Poblado, La calle de la Buena Mesa.

As for the typical dishes of Medellin and Antioquia can highlight the Bandeja Paisa

which is a set of preparations includes: beans, rice, pork, ground beef, sausage, fried egg, slice of ripe banana, corn bread, salad and avocado.

It is also very traditional arepa paisa consuming, is made with cooked corn, ground and kneaded. The usual thing is to accompany it with butter and salt, but also, with avocado, cheese, hogao, ground meats, etc.

ACCOMMODATION

Medellin is recognized as an important business center, with a significant and continuing influx of entrepreneurs and executives. This, plus the health tourism, diverse programming and permanent exhibitions and academic, cultural and sporting events, or just nice to meet you, make Medellín a tourist destination class.

Here the visitor has access to a wide network of hotels, with more than 200 establishments in all the features and budgets, located mostly in the business conglomerates in the most touristic city.

These are some of the recommended hotels

InterContinental Hotel

Convention Center Hotel, with 300 rooms, 16 meeting rooms with capacity up to 1500 people. 3 restaurants, bar, bakery, spa with heated pools, gym, sauna, steam room and jacuzzi, 2 tennis courts and shopping arcade.

Mediterráneo Hotel

Executive style with differential services included in the rate: breakfast, room service, WIFI, meeting room, external parking, emergency medical service, sauna, steam room and gym.

Four Points By Sheraton Medellín Hotel

It has 123 rooms equipped with international TV, minibar, clock radio, telephone, hair dryer, safe deposit boxes and wireless Internet.

Culturals Events

Flower Fair.
It is the most representative event in the city of Medellin. It is done in late July to early August. The Fair, plus many other activities and festivities, is the main axis Silleteros Parade, a colorful and artistic stop huge laden flowers saddles on the back for their own farmers.

Silleteros Parade 
Is the central event of the Flower Fair in Medellin, Colombia, which flocking each year local residents and tourists. In the parade unfold million flowers loaded into saddles on their backs, which is a generational laborious peasants of the village of Santa Elena, who with over 80 varieties of flowers make beautiful landscapes, portraits, indigenous values ​​and messages civic, and the authors' own creations. With all this in tow, made ​​a tour through the main streets monumental city.

WEATHER

The climate is temperate and humid with an average temperature of 23 ° Celsius. The pleasant and mild climate has earned him the nickname "The City of Eternal Spring". The Climate is fairly uniform throughout the year, with a few variations in temperature between December and January and in June and July, the drier and warmer seasons of the year.

On sunny days at noon temperatures normally reach up to 31 ° or 32 ° in the shade. However, in Medellin completely clear days are rare, a normal day in Medellin is partly cloudy with intervals of sun and shade. Medellín is a city of winds. Almost every time the breeze cools