COLOMBIA - By Emarg

Medellín: El Poblado









Department: Antioquia
City: Medellín
Place: El Poblado







El Poblado is one of the richest neighborhoods of Medellín. The neighborhood is clearly visible from rest of the city because of the vast aglomeration of towers on the mountains. Its main area os the Carrear 43A, acting as a main avenue who connects the South with the North. This avenue concentrates many of important 5-stars hotels, coffe stores, high-class restaurants and the gigantic Santa Fe Comercial Centre. Among its curved mountain streets also lies some of the most prestigious schools of Medellín. Lastly, the neighborhood probably gets its most interesting point at the Museo El Castillo (that could be translated as “Castle Museum”), an old medieval neogothic palace who was donated to the State and then reconverted into a museum, like many of the other big residences of the Americas.

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cool shots of one of the big cities of the country.

Colombia is a fascinating place. However can somebody be honest with me? How dodgy are Bogota and Medellin?

Not much more than hectic taipei.

Medellín: Palace of the Culture









Department: Antioquia
City: Medellín
Place: Palace of the Culture







The Palace of Culture of Medellín is one of the many flamboyant expressions of the Neogothic style in Colombia, a style who’s quite dark on its original conception in Europe and who paradoxically arrived to one of the most colourful countries in the world. It’s nowadays the core of the Downtown Medellín, a meeting point for the tourists, a cultural center with a wide range of activities and the perfect place to get good shots of the skyline of the city.

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Motul said:

Not much more than hectic taipei.

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Well I do think most of the stuff about Medellin and Bogota are overblown, however you can't compare them with Taipei. I'm just interested to what extent the scare stories are true.

Medellín: National Palace









Department: Antioquia
City: Medellín
Place: National Palace







The National Palace is one of the many architectural jewels of Medellín. Though its imposing size draw the attention from the streets nearby, what it may surprise is that this building was the Palace of Justice and it was recently turned into a shopping mall. The feeling of looking the gorgeous architecture of the interiors combined with the cheap shops is quite weird. The National Palace has marked elements of the Neogothic style on its facade and it mostly utilizes the neo-romanic style for its interiors.

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Medellín: Antioquia Museum









Department: Antioquia
City: Medellín
Place: Antioquia Museum







Located at the core of Medellín, just in front of the Botero Square, the Antiquia Museum utilizes nowadays the old building of the Municipal Palace of the city. Like in the case of Bogotá, this museum has a substantial amount of sculptures and paintings of Fernando Botero. It also possess collections of other colombian artists, specially from Antioquia, and pieces of pre-columbian art.

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Medellín: Parque Explora & Botanical Garden









Department: Antioquia
City: Medellín
Place: Parque Explora & Botanical Garden







Besides the construction of the huge Libraries who brought the Culture to the neighborhoods of the city, Medellín recently added the Parque Explora to its collection. This is an interactive place for the exploration of Science and Technology, who also has one of the biggest aquariums of Latin America. The Parque Explora is one of the parts of a larger area of Medellín who concentrates many interesting places to visit, such as the House of Music, the Planetarium, the Cincuentenario Stadium and other sports infrastructure. And lastly, the Botanical Garden, famous for its Orquideorama structure and the House of the Butterflies.