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Linear Parks and Streams: The Free Outdoor Spaces Paisas Use to Train (and Tourists Ignore)
In Medellín the busiest gym has no walls and charges no membership fee: it's the green corridors that follow the streams and the river. While most tourists pay
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History & HeritageMedellín Travel Budget and Costs: Complete Guide to Prices, Transport and Food
Medellín is one of those cities where your wallet can breathe easy or bleed dry, depending on how the visitor moves around. Having a set lunch menu in the Centr
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History & HeritageCoffee and Design: The DNA of Carrera 35 in Provenza
There is a street in El Poblado that doesn't need giant billboards to announce itself. Carrera 35, that short strip running between Calle 8 and Calle 10, has be
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NightlifeNightlife in El Poblado and Laureles: The Best Bars, Clubs and Rooftops in Medellín
There are two Medellíns when night falls. One is that of El Poblado, where Parque Lleras, Provenza and Avenida 70 concentrate clubs, rooftops and signature cock
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Art & CultureMarket plazas as schools: Minorista and Placita de Flórez and the craft of recognizing what you eat
Every Saturday, at the Placita de Flórez, the same scene repeats itself: an older woman asks the vendor on the corner whether the avocado in front of her "is re
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Art & CultureThe mural that changes its face: the graffiti collectives that negotiate walls with the community action boards
In Medellín, graffiti stopped being a quick tag on a gray wall and became a neighborhood negotiation. Behind many murals that are now a tourist postcard there i
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Food & DrinkEarly-Morning Bakeries in Medellín: The Shift That Bakes Before the City Wakes
There is a Medellín that doesn't appear in the photos of Poblado or in the videos of Provenza. It's the one that starts at three in the morning, when the last m
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Art & CultureThe silleteros of Santa Elena: the craft passed down among greenhouses and silletas
Santa Elena is not a flower town for tourists. It is a corregimiento of Medellín where people still grow flowers to sell on Sundays. Heading up the road to Guar
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History & HeritageColombia Travel Expo at Plaza Mayor Medellín: Guide to Dates, Free Entry and How to Plan Your Trip
Plaza Mayor was not always the convention center it is today. When it opened in 2006, in the heart of the old industrial district of Alpujarra, many medellinens
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History & HeritageProvenza After Sunset: The Night That Isn't Lleras
There is an invisible border in El Poblado that many visitors cross without realizing it. It happens when you walk from the bustle of Parque Lleras toward the w
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NightlifeNightlife in Medellín: Complete Guide to Areas, Party Scene and Plans for a Night Out
Medellín doesn't sleep, and anyone who says otherwise hasn't walked down Calle 70 on a Thursday at eleven at night or seen the tide of people climbing up throug
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History & HeritageThe neighborhood that grew around a slaughterhouse: the real story of how the Frigorífico Municipal shaped Guayabal
Before the Frigorífico Municipal made its grand entrance, Guayabal was a corner of southern Medellín that breathed tranquility. Imagine a landscape of farms, pa
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History & HeritageThe neighborhoods that lost their river: how the channeling of the La Hueso stream changed daily life in Belén
The La Hueso stream is born at about 2,160 meters above sea level, in the upper part of what we now know as San Javier, and flows down through the western side
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