If you ask someone who has already visited Medellín what they can't miss, the answer is almost always the same: Guatapé. It's the most requested day trip from the city, and you only need to see two photos (the giant stone protruding from a reservoir filled with islands, and a village where every house...
There are neighborhoods that are visited for their architecture, others for their gastronomy. Comuna 13 is visited for its history, and that is the reason why no tour there looks like any ordinary tourist walk. What is today one of the most recognized destinations for urban art in the world was, back in the 1990s, a place where people came to see graffiti art.
Medellin has ceased to be the destination that people used to visit “on the way” years ago. Today it is one of the most sought-after cities in South America for those who come to Colombia for the first time, and it’s no coincidence: among the eternal spring weather, the country’s most organized transportation system, and an urban transformation that continues…
