Santo Domingo Savio Library (Biblioteca de España) Tours & Attractions

This private full-day tour takes you to the most representative places in Medellin such as Botero Plaza, Botanical Garden, Arvi Natural Reserve, cable car, and electrical escalators of Comuna 13.

Just to clarify in case there are typos, this tour does not include lunch or meals.
Duration: 8 hours.

Get to know Medellin and its history in a personalized way by visiting specific sites that will make you understand the cultural change and history of this incredible city.
We will walk its streets knowing its history, we will ride the subway and live a tour seeing part of what Medellin is, and we will get on the Metro Cable to see one of the communes with an example of change between what Medellin was and what it is today.
We will visit the Parque del Poblado, Plaza de Botero, the Museum of Antioquia and the Parque Biblioteca España in one of the most visited communes.
Comfortable and personalized tour with a guide and snacks, to get to know Medellín and its history.
Duration: 5 hours 15 minutes.

This route will immerse you in the experience of the daily life of the resilient community of Comuna Uno that emerges from a past of state abandonment and violence. Gone is the time of Pablo Escobar and his assassins who tarnished the honor of thriving families. Come and be part of the local community, of the characteristic traditions of the country. In the same way you will be able to delve into the history of the first settlers of the Aburrá Valley, their customs and the traces that remain as vestiges of the past in the Arví Park.

In this tour the visitor can see how the treat is the peasant methodology par excellence to create progress, how the attentive gaze of the government can contribute to the security of the territory, how education or lack of it influenced the poverty or wealth of the neighborhood.
Duration: 2 hours.

This off-the-beaten-track circuit allows you to understand the complexities that the city of Medellín had between the 1970s and 2009, supported by touching and instructive encounters. In four hours, you will flirt with innovation (cable car, strategic urban projects), local gastronomy (tasting of local products), Street Art, History (forced displacement, migratory waves, industrialization of the city. ..) and all this mixed with anecdotes told by local people full of energy who are at the heart of the process of social transformation in their neighborhoods! In addition to being an original tour, it makes it possible to have a social impact on the populations of the San José de la Cima and Brisas del Jardin neighborhoods because it energizes the territory and creates jobs for the community on a small scale. We can't wait to show you these colorful neighborhoods full of history!
Duration: 4 hours.