BEST THINGS TO DO AT MEDELLÍN 🇨🇴🌄
By Laura García, Samuel Galvis and Susana Carmona ⭐
(picture: Medellín Advisor)
Medellín is the capital city of the department Antioquia, in Colombia. Nicknamed "City of Eternal spring 🍂" for its weather.
Prepare your bags because here we'll show you the best things you may do in Medellín ✈️🧳
Museo el Castillo (Castle Museum) 🏰
It's located on El Poblado, it's a ghotic medieval castle, built by the architect Nel Rodríguez circa the 30's, it's similar to some constructions on France, it has gardens on a french style, libraries and expositions rooms where you can find out how was the life of the family that used to live there. In 1971 the owner's (Diego Echavarría) wife donated the castle to Medellín's cultural heritage.
El castillo museum has guided tours. It also counts with an art school, with courses where you'll learn about the importance of culture.
Picnics can be done in the museum's gardens with previous reservations.
Collections on the castle are change frecuently, in Christmas you're going to find out amazing christian mangers expositions.
Permanent exposition are divided in 9 rooms:
(picture: Sistema de bibliotecas públicas Medellín)
Planetario and Explora 🌎✨
Best experience for science lovers.
Planetario Jesus Emilio Ramírez and Parque Explora are located in Carabobo norte, next to universidad de Antioquia.
Planetario de Medellín it's a place for educational heritage, made for astronomy and space students or fans, it counts with two floors of science Experiences, including geology, astrophysics, quantum mechanics, relativity and astrobiology, a 4k dome, where are daily projected different Functions, including the worlwide function "Life's question" winner of diverse awards. It also serves as auditorium for expositions on topics like biology, physics, quantum mechanics that are done by local and international academics.
Parque explora is an intercative science museum, it has the largest aquarium in Latin America, with aquatic fauna and Flora from all over the country. The museum contains over 300 interactive experiencies divide in 5 expositions:
Both has programs and courses for all the year, you'll find
El cielo está noche (this nights sky)
Astronomical observations
(picture: Carlos Tobón, parque explora)
Filarmónica Medellín's concerts 🎶
the most innovative orchestra in the world.
Filarmed does concerts frecuently, for example, recently it did a electronica concert, doing covers of artist like avicci, David Guetta, Coldplay, sia, commemorating Earth's day, you can find information about next concerts in filarmed (on IG)
GASTRONOMICAL EXPERIENCES 🍛🥑
Sooo in this section you're going to find out the best of paisa food. Gastronomy antioqueña Extends to the cafetera region, among the most common plates you'll find the use of pork, avocado, yuca, beans, arepa and maiz (corn), [you'll find out all of them in a principal plate: bandeja paisa] also in a tipic panadería you'll find a great variety of parva, including pandequeso, pandeyuca, and of course, best thing you are going to eat in you life: buñuelos, for a desert you can try solteritas, and you'll find out that a tipical paisa eats all of the previous items with mazamorra.
You'll find out paisas' tipical food in:
But if you want to try worlwide gastronomy you can find very good restaurants in Calle primavera (el Poblado) there are options for everyone 👍
EXPERIENCES TO CONNECT WITH NATURE 🌄
Parque arví it's an ecological park located in Santa Elena, there are native forests and interactive experiencies such as Comfama adventure's experience, also you can do ecological walks or find out about Santa Elena local gastronomy and products
(picture: Viajes Escapados)
Metro de Medellín crosses área metropolitana, Medellín is the only city on Colombia that has metro.
Metro de Medellín offers diferents services such as:
All services are accessible with cívica ID.
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