Discover the transformative graffiti art of Columna 13 on a guided tour in Medellin. Ride the metro, climb up to the houses on the mountain top with the metrocable, and take the public bus into the graffiti district for a walking tour full of art, music, food, and friendly neighborhood vibes. Start at the Poblado metro station and meet your friendly guide and group for the day. Jump on the metro train to reach Medellin's cable car the metrocable and ride all the way up to the mountaintop. Enjoy the spectacular viewing point and learn about the city's transportation system. Continue on with a bus to the graffiti district where your walking tour will begin. Let your guide lead you through the streets filled with expressive art including graffiti, oil paintings, and graffiti-printed clothes. Encounter good food, music, and dance shows in this traditional neighborhood. Learn about the meaning of the graffiti created by local artists and how this area has been transformed over time. Try some traditional Colombian street food before heading to a bar with the best views in the city for a drink to get to know your fellow travelers.

Discover Medellín's Comuna 13 and explore the colorful streets lined with murals, graffiti, and artistic expressions on a walking tour. Learn all about the transformation that the area has undergone, overcoming its dark past, and becoming a symbol of resilience and hope in Medellín. Meet your guide and be led through streets filled with expressive art including murals, oil paintings, and graffitied clothing. Hear about the meaning behind the graffiti and enjoy great views of Medellín. While you learn about art and culture, be immersed in the challenges that Comuna 13 has faced. Listen to captivating stories that show the transformation and resilience of this community. Visit art galleries, enjoy some ice cream, and make your own graffiti art with messages to send to your family, friends, or your home country.

Discover Medellín's Comuna 13 district on a guided tour with a local. Enjoy stunning views of the city from a cable car, learn about the local street artists, and hear how this formerly dangerous area has evolved. Meet your guide in the metro station to begin the tour and experience Medellín like a local. Learn all about the stations and key points in the city, as well as how the metro system helped shape the new Medellin. When arriving at the connecting station, hop on a cable car up the hill. As you go, admire the panoramic views of the city and find out about its evolving history and troubled past. At the top, take a short ride on the bus toward the Comuna 13 district. At Comuna 13, the real fun begins. An enthusiastic guide will explain all the positive changes made to transform what was once one of the most dangerous communities in South America into a symbol of the new Medellín. You will have time to take in all the amazing street art and ride the electric outdoor escalators to the top observation deck, which offers incredible views. Listen to insights about Medellín, hear interesting stories from the guides, meet locals and learn about the library that works as a community center before returning to Poblado metro station.

Enjoy the experience of going through the beautiful transformation of Comuna 13 with the help of a friendly local guide, one of the most dangerous and violent communities in Latin America, is now a symbol of transformation and progress of the city, take the subway to listen how important it is for the city, taking the cableway uphill you'll get an amazing landscape, as well, you'll know the history of this extraordinary transformation, take the integrated bus to the graffiti neighborhood where you will experience walking tour full of art, music, typical food, and local environment, your sympathetic guide will explain to you all art embodied in any single corner of these beautiful streets, in the same way, you'll know how all this art have transformed the Comuna 13, you 'll admire the gorgeous art scene climbing the neighborhood's escalators (These escalators are open air), at the middle of these escalators (These escalators have 6 stretches) you can enjoy a delicious traditional appetizer from a restaurant with an award municipal gastronomic, as well, you'll visit the popular neon home from the zone, you'll continue until you reach a bar located at the top of the area where you will have a privileged view, at this place you'll have a refreshing drink while you meet your fellow travelers and the locals.

Discover the political, social, and economic context of drug trafficking in Colombia on an eye-opening tour. Learn about Pablo Escobar's life, death, and impact. Visit Comuna 13 to see the inspiring transformation of what was once one of the most dangerous places in the world with a local guide. After pickup from your hotel in Medellin, head to Cementerio Jardines Montesacro to visit Pablo Escobar's grave. Discover different perspectives and points of view on Pablo's history. Gain an understanding of the context in which Pablo Escobar grew up and what made him who he was. Next, see Los Olivos Antioquia, the rooftop where Pablo Escobar died. Discuss the political and economic context of Columbia in the eighties and nineties. Discover the impact the drug lord's legacy still has. Then, visit Parque Conmemorativo Inflexión, a memorial to the victims of narco-terrorism. Finally, explore Comuna 13 and its history. Marvel at street art and stories of Colombians whose strength and resilience turned this previously violent area around. Unpick stereotypes and discuss the importance of education.

Get an insight into Colombia's troubled past on a private guided tour of the formerly dangerous district of Comuna 13 in Medellín.   Discover a replica of an old village at Pueblito Paisa on Nutibara Hill, and get stunning views over the rooftops from one of the city's few conserved ecosystems. Make your way to Comuna 13 to learn how the most notorious neighborhood in the country has reinvented itself. See stunning examples of street art and graffiti that puts the political and socio-economic story of the area into context. Once the center of the gang wars and guerilla activity, the area has been transformed by the local community with the help of government projects such as a giant escalator that runs up the hill. Visit the iconic sculptures by Fernando Botero along the Botero Plaza and take a walk in the Parques del Rio.

At Andariegos Tours, we are passionate about offering walking tours and captivating stories that will immerse our clients in the transformation and rich history of the colorful Comuna 13. Our focus is on providing authentic tourist experiences, showcasing the secrets and hidden treasures of the community. During our tours, visitors will have the opportunity to meet talented local artists and delve into their creative world. We value the history and transformation of Comuna 13, and our expert guides will share powerful stories about its past and how it has evolved as a symbol of resilience and overcoming. We believe in the importance of interactive experiences, so we offer spaces designed to immerse you in local culture, interact with artists and discover cultural diversity. At Andariegos Tours, we want the experience to be complete. During the tour, we offer a delicious complimentary ice cream to cool off while enjoying the vibrant atmosphere of Comuna 13. Our tours are 3 hours long, so you can make the most of your visit without taking up the whole day. Join Andariegos Tours and discover the true essence of Medellin's Comuna 13. Immerse yourself in a vibrant community, full of history, transformation and local talent.

At 9:00 am you will be picked up at your accommodation and we will go to meet the famous Pueblito Paisa, a replica of a typical Antioquia town. Get your camera ready and enjoy the fabulous views over the city. Then we will go downtown where we will take a guided walking tour and visit other emblematic points of the city such as Parque Berrio, the Palace of Culture and Plaza Botero, where the iconic sculptures of the renowned artist Fernando Botero are located. At 12:00 am we will taste a delicious traditional lunch. At the end we will take the metro and cable car, from which we will be able to admire incredible 360º panoramic views of the surrounding landscape. At 1:30 pm we will arrive at one of the neighborhoods historically most hit by violence in Medellín: La Comuna 13. We will enter its colorful streets, while our guide brings us closer to its political and socioeconomic history. Fall in love with the hip-hop culture and the inspiring language of graffiti. Be amazed by the outdoor escalators, which connect the neighborhood and the majestic views over the city, while enjoying a typical ice cream and interacting with local residents and artists. At 5:00 pm we will conclude this wonderful cultural day.

Learn about the dark times suffered by Medellín at the time of Pablo Escobar Gaviria. Gain an understanding of the difficulties, which both the city and its inhabitants strove to overcome to become an example of resilience. Discover the troubled past of the city, and the painful and bloody legacy left behind by the famed drug trafficker. Start the tour in the El Poblado neighborhood, visiting the new Parque de la Memoria, a former Monaco building which was demolished on February 22, 2019 to make way for a renewed space that aims to reconstruct the area's history through art and culture, vindicating the city of its unfortunate reputation of a place of drug trafficking. Next, head to the Barrio Pablo Escobar, a neighborhood founded by Escobar himself to offer free houses to the homeless and the poorest in the city of Medellín.  Finally, arrive to the west of the city and witness the house where he died in its dilapidated state. You can also opt to include a visit to Comuna 13, an area with the most graffiti in Medellin and the largest open-air gallery in Latin America.

Start your day with convenient hotel pickup. Meet your guide and begin your tour to experience Medellín like a local. First, you'll be introduced to the graffiti and their meanings on the Poblado neighborhood's walls, which you might have walked by and never noticed. From there, you'll be driven to the downtown area of the city to experience a vibrant part of town. There, see the street art that transforms the gray walls into colorful spaces with stories, and start to learn about some of Medellín's evolving history and troubled past. After downtown, head toward a parking lot close to the Comuna 13 district to park the car before your private group takes the famous cable car up the hills. Make sure to take in the fabulous panoramic views of the city on the way up as your guide tells you more about the surrounding area and its history. At Comuna 13, the real fun begins. Your enthusiastic guide will explain all the positive changes made to transform what was once one of the most dangerous communities in South America into a symbol of the new Medellín. Enjoy time to take in all the amazing street graffiti and ride the electric outdoor escalators to the top observation deck, which offers incredible views. Listen to insights about Medellín, interesting stories from the guides, meet the locals, and try a famous local popsicle before returning to your hotel.