Heart of the City
From the park of 300 lights to the plaza of 23 giants — walk through the transformation of the city that went from the world's most dangerous to its most innovative.
Start
Parque de las Luces
End
Catedral Metropolitana
Tour Stops (7)
Parque de las Luces
A forest of 300 white light poles standing where one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the Americas once thrived.
Parque de San Antonio — Botero's Birds
Two bronze bird sculptures side by side — one destroyed by a bomb, one placed beside it as a memorial. A city's refusal to forget.
Parque de Berrío & Basílica de la Candelaria
The historic heart of the valley — the oldest church, the social catwalk, and the verb that paisas invented for showing off.
Edificio Coltejer
A skyscraper shaped like a sewing needle — Medellín's monument to the textile industry that built the city's fortunes.
Plaza Botero
Twenty-three monumental bronze sculptures — Medellín's most famous son's gift to the city that made him.
Palacio de la Cultura Rafael Uribe Uribe
A Gothic-Romanesque checkerboard palace named after the man who may have inspired literature's most famous colonel.
Catedral Metropolitana
The largest brick church in South America — 1.12 million bricks arranged in Romanesque Revival grandeur.