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Guayabal: The Motorcycle Workshops That Hide Art Factories
If you walk along Avenida 33 in Guayabal, between the 30th street bridge and Carrera 48, the first thing that hits you isn't a color or a shape. It's a smell: h
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History & HeritageGuayabal: The Motorcycle Workshops That Hide Art Factories
If you walk along Avenida 33 in Guayabal, between the 30th street bridge and Carrera 48, the first thing that hits you isn't a color or a shape. It's a smell: h
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History & HeritageThe Colorful Houses of La 20: Working-Class Memory
If you walk along La 20 Street in Guayabal, between Carreras 38 and 40, the first thing that will hit you is the color. Not one, but dozens. Yellow, green, blue
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History & HeritageThe airplane cemetery of Guayabal
If you walk along Calle 5A Sur with Carrera 44 in Guayabal, the first thing that hits you is not the noise of the city, but the silence. A heavy, metallic silen
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History & HeritageGuayabal: The Salsa Workshop That Never Closes
If you walk down Calle 33 with Carrera 65 on a Saturday at five in the afternoon, the first thing you'll feel is the smell of gasoline and burnt rubber. The sec
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History & HeritageGuayabal: The Salsa Workshop That Vibrates at Night
If you are fed up with the lines in Provenza, paying 60,000 pesos for a bottle of rum on a terrace in El Poblado, and listening to the same 2015 reggaeton on lo
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History & HeritageThe Guayabal Escalators That Nobody Uses
In a city obsessed with escalators as a symbol of social inclusion, there is a set of them in Guayabal that seems like a monument to contradiction. They are not
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Guayabal is the industrial lung of Medellín, but also its worst-kept secret. While all tourists crowd into Parque Lleras or Pueblito Paisa, here, among warehous
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History & HeritageGuayabal: The Workshop of Working-Class Memory
When you walk along Avenida Guayabal, amid the roar of trucks and the beeping of forklifts, it's hard to imagine that fifty years ago this ground trembled not f
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History & HeritageGuayabal: The Route of Hidden Murals
While the whole city fights for a photo in Comuna 13, there's an industrial neighborhood that has been painting its own history without permission for over a de
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History & HeritageSunday Football at the Cancha de la Esmeralda
If you live in Guayabal or have passed by Avenida 33 on a Sunday morning, you've surely heard the noise: the referee's whistle, shouts of goals, laughter, scold
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History & HeritageThe Scent of Cumin on the 33: 4-Generation Bakeries
If you've ever walked along Avenida 33 in Guayabal, amidst the noise of trucks and the smell of gasoline, there's an aroma that stops you in your tracks: cumin,
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