Medellín

Medellín earns its reputation twice: once for the city and once for what surrounds it. Cielo runs walking tours of downtown — Botero’s plazas and Barefoot Park — plus tejo with local beer, and day trips to Jardín’s coffee farms, Santa Fe de Antioquia’s colonial streets, and Guatapé. Private guides, hotel pickup, English or Spanish. Planning the days first? Read our guide to things to do in Medellín, our Guatapé day-trip guide, our Medellín airport guide, our Medellín weather guide, our Comuna 13 guide, our guide to whether Medellín is safe and our guide to where to stay in Medellín. Getting here from Bogotá, by air, bus or road, is in our Bogotá to Medellín guide. What the city is, the metro and how long to stay are in our Medellín city guide. Where the night happens, and what time it ends, is in our Medellín nightlife guide. The coffee town three hours to the southwest, with its farm, its basilica after the earthquake and the risk stated plainly, is in our Jardín guide. The old capital an hour to the northwest, with the heat, the tunnel and the toll, and the bridge you now cross on foot, is in our Santa Fe de Antioquia guide.