Take a look at these useful information websites on Medellin and the surrounding areas: www.medellintraveler.com & www.medellintravelguide.com If you ever find yourself in a valley surrounded by green mountains, with a river that runs through it, with smiley inhabitants, active and diligent people, and a sunshine bathing it all, you’ll realize you are in Medellín.
In Medellín, a city of transformations that went from frightfulness to hopefulness, every corner of the city invites you to enjoy it; its people and infrastructure adapt themselves to circumstances and turn everything into enjoyment opportunities; it’s a city that welcomes its visitors. Medellín’s colors, shapes, flavors, and aromas will activate your senses as you go around the city.
Greater Medellín is made up of many cities where you can find multiple experiences and diverse social groups merging and existing side by side with their own dreams, achievements, and the desire to live in a better city. In Medellín, where locals and strangers delight themselves and see how the city evolves without paying too much attention to its past, towards a modern capital with spaces for social integration, where education, culture, and respect are evidenced as part of this new scenery in which everyone takes part to help turn Medellín into the new Medellín. A city that listens, smiles, reads, enjoys walking, and attracts people from here and there.
This touristic city found its way in the middle of a valley in the Andes Central mountain range that in its vast extension shapes diverse landscapes. It’s amidst this landscape where locals evoke the drive of a colonizing breed that through perseverance and endurance subdued these mountains and founded what is considered today a growing industrial metropolitan area.
Medellín boasts the title of being the second most important Colombian city, after Bogotá’s first place as the country’s capital, and it’s considered a commercial, industrial, and developmental epicenter in the country. With a denoted leadership in the financial, banking, service, political, arts, cultural, communications, fashion, and entertainment sectors, it has played an outstanding role in Latin America and has become a development center, not only in the continent but also in the world. We must point out that it was the first city in Colombia to build an integrated transportation system that runs throughout the metropolitan area.
That’s why it headquarters local, regional, national, and international organizations, institutions, and corporations and lately it has become a reference place in Colombia for health, congress, events, and sports tourism.
Paisas, as people born in Medellín are called, have given Medellín different epithets, like the City of the Endless Spring (as a tropical recognition for being a city where flowers bloom all-year-round. Had they known about rainy springs, they certainly would not have chosen it for this sunny city with clear skies most of the time), Silver Little Cup, Mountain Capital, Botero City, Flower Capital; epithets that can be confirmed once you walk its streets or have contact with its people, because they have earned an entrepreneurial, visionary, and great bargaining reputation.
Comercial activity
Medellín has always been a commercially active city, which can be registered by its original inhabitants who, in spite of the geographical adversities, had the challenge to found a city that today is a commercial reference point in Colombia and in Latin America.
Currently, the economic activities that better underpin progress are the textile, commerce, energy generation, construction, and service sectors. Also, its modern hospital infrastructure, scientific investigation, urban ecological projects, and varied technological and university institutions, position Medellín as one of the most dynamic cities in Colombia and one of the most captivating cities to visit.
It is very common to meet people who find Medellín as an important business center because it headquarters many regional, national, and international companies, institutions, and organizations that turn Medellín into a culture and exchange center. It also has a utility service provider, property of the city, which is the continental role model. Empresas Públicas de Medellín is a conglomerate that owns 12 hydro electrical plants and a number of companies that add up to an excellent infrastructure for gas, power, and telecommunication distribution. It has expanded to neighboring countries in Latin America.
Medellín sees its commercial growth driven by its textile industry that generates 53% of the employment in Antioquia and turns it into the fashion capital in Latin America.
The city holds yearly two of the most important specialized fairs internationally: Colombiamoda and Colombiatex. They both invite people related to the sector to the fashion shows, conferences, and commercial commissions that partly become, as well, sightseeing tours around the city, visits to its hotels, restaurants, shopping centers, malls, and main streets that welcome visitors with an ancestral hosting spirit.
Our Medellín people, being an outstanding city in the Colombian territory, shows in its people entrepreneurship and endurance when facing great tasks. One of the difficulties during the colonization times, was subduing the rough terrains that dominate the region so they could turn them into a land suitable for their inhabitants residence and a fountain of progress for them, as well. It was achievable thanks to the paisa character.
Therefore, the paisa from Medellín (abbreviation form of paisano), has become an institution of possibilities and resourcefulness renown in the whole country. Their proactively, savings capacity, and outgoing reputation are some of the values that still prevail today, as well as their friendliness and talkativeness, no matter if they have to exaggerate their stories to make them more vivid for their audience. That is why they have earned a reputation of being the best business people and sales people who have founded great companies and trustworthy and safe businesses.
The paisas welcome innovation and it is habitual for them to open un to it, committing themselves to the future. This can be observed in a changing infrastructure that is constantly adapted to their needs.
The paisa women, renowned by their beauty, continue being the heads of large families and the transmitters of the taste for tradition to their descendents.
Medellín is an ideal destination for many reasons: Its warm and kind people; its spring weather (Locals use The-City-of-the-Endless-Spring epithet for Medellín as a tropical recognition for being a city where flowers bloom all-year-round. Had they known about rainy springs, they certainly would not have chosen it for this sunny city with clear skies most of the time); its flowered and mountainous landscape; its ample astronomical, commercial, and touristic offer; Medellín gives its visitors opportunities for business and pleasure while enjoying a new city, very attractive to discover and to go sightseeing.
Its geographical location, in a great valley surrounded by mountains, makes Madellín unique because a great river – named after the city – crosses through the city’s extension breaking it into eastsideand westside.
Medellín makes us understand the magic of acity transformation; where there was violence before, learning, culture, and entrepreneurial opportunities are built today to project itself to the world asa competitive and prosperous city that went from frightfulness to hopefulness.
In Medellín, events, congresses, fairs, and seminars take over the city in the textile, manufacturing, medicinal, construction, and education sectors, turning it into a meeting place for the world and highlighting it as one of the best event centers in its category.
A city to enjoy your senses with its food, its aromas, and its colorful streets; to go sightseeing and adapt to it with their commendations and guides that you will find in our portal, where you can find the main touristic attractions in this ideal destination, Medellín.
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