Our Graffiti & Cable Car & City Tour in Medellin is definitely a must do activity when you travel to our city.

The violent past, the beautiful present and the promising future of this district makes it a magical place and an unforgettable experience.

The street art throughout the whole neighborhood makes it more mind blowing knowing that most of them have a special meaning related to its history.

However, at Medellin Day Trips we want you to have an even more complete experience that’s why we added a guided visit to the major city’s landmarks to make it unique, fun, informative and exclusive.

If you are short in time in Medellin we recommend you to explore the different Graffiti tour combinations we have created for you:

• Graffiti tour with a coffee tour – 8 hours
• Graffiti Tour with Guatape  – 10.5 hours
• Just Graffiti Tour – 3.5 hours
• Graffiti Tour + Exotic Fruit Tasting + Cable Car ride – 5 hours

All these options are one-day experiences and much cheaper when you book them combined vs separatedly.

Graffiti & Cable Car & City Tour in Medellin Itinerary:

First Stop: Electrical Escalators and Graffiti Tour in Comuna 13

The violent past, the beautiful present and the promising future of this district makes it a magical place and an unforgettable experience.

The street art throughout the whole neighborhood makes it more mind blowing knowing that most of them have a special meaning related to its history.

You get inside in one of those neighborhoods in Comuna 13, the most dangerous Comuna in Medellin only 18 years ago.

Outdoor Escalators in our Graffiti & Cable Car & City Tour in Medellin:

Comuna 13 is the place where the first non-touristy outdoor electrical escalators in the world were installed.

The escalators were opened in December of 2011 with a cost of 3,5 million dollars and was built to save more than 350 stairs in a very steep hill.

Besides the escalators that became one the biggest touristic attractions in Medellin, Comuna 13 is also one of the biggest street-art districts in Latin America.

More than 15 meaningful graffitis to learn about

Half of the neighborhood displays meaningful graffiti and you get the chance to learn all their meanings at this incredible tour.

In our Graffiti and city tour in Medellin we invite you to try the traditional ice cream from this area as well as to have an amazing single origin coffee.

And who knows if we are lucky we might find some of the artists responsible for this pieces of art.

In our walk you visit the view point, the new pathway full of graffiti and the slide built to honor a tragedy occurred in Comuna 13.

There is a particular monument that was built to honor all the children of Comuna 13 and we’ll use it to revive our inner children and have some fun.

Second Stop: Flying over hundreds of houses.

Throughout the ride in the cable car you will see lots of houses stack on top of the other.

Many of these houses were and some still are illegal settlements that belong to displaced people from rural areas as a consequence of the internal conflict.

Your guide will explain the origin of the war, its effects in the current city’s situation and the free housing program undertaken to help them.

We are going to the last station where you can see many of the free houses. The whole ride is around 20 minutes, going up and down over the green mountains.

After we come back to the metro station and now that you have more context about Medellin, its social system, its means of transportation we head towards the Graffiti tour in Comuna 13.

Third Stop: Medellin’s Downtown: Botero Square, ancient church and Palaces

Once we conclude our Graffiti tour in Comuna 13 we head to downtown to visit the major landmarks of Medellin.

Our first stop in downtown includes iconic places such as the Sculptures Park also known as Botero Square.

An urban space that displays 23 sculptures of the illustrious son of Medellin, Master Fernando Botero.

After walking around and appreciating the open-air museum, we head to the Cultural Palace, a beautiful neo-Gothic style building.

At this place your guide tells you this building’s story while you admire the architectural beauty from inside

Our next stop in our Graffiti & Cable Car & City Tour in Medellin is nothing less than the second church built in Medellin in 1712 with the help of European immigrants.

From the Veracruz church we walk around 3 mins to discover another architectural gem designed by Albert Govaert.

Once the Medellin’s Courthouse, Palacio Nacional is now the most unusual shopping mall in the city and probably in the world.

Many of the condemned people were committing suicide inside the building thus the local authorities decided to change the location and give a new use to this building.

This is a great opportunity to buy Colombian clothing and souvenirs at a good price. Go ahead and prove your bargain skills!

As you can see this & Cable Car & City Tour in Medellin has it all: Transformation, history, good stories and art but more than everything a great guidance in English.

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