The spirit of the book Medellín up close emancipated itself from its pages and now walks through the streets and iconic sites of the city, in a living experience designed for tourists and locals eager to learn more about the history and transformation of the city of eternal spring.
The bilingual book Medellín Up Close – Medellín de Cerca, written and edited by journalist Feliciano Escobar, compiles essential aspects of the city’s history, traditions, landscaping, most iconic places, natural heritage and artistic expressions.
Tourists visiting the city can use this printed publication as a tourist guide or souvenir. Before or during your stay, the pages of Medellin up close will help you to immerse yourself more quickly and with greater understanding in the cultural environment, as well as to better situate yourself in the territory of the city. When they finish their trip in the capital of Antioquia, the book becomes an ideal souvenir, especially for lovers of books, knowledge, art and culture.
Now, Medellín de Cerca is also a living experience.
Beyond the pages of the book, made up of illustrations and artistic photographs and narrations that tell the reader about 23 topics related to the life of Medellín, tourists interested in walking through the streets and visiting the places where the history and culture of the city are summarized today also have the option of taking the Medellín Up Close tour, an 8-hour tour dedicated to learning and exploring the most representative landmarks, from pre-Hispanic stories to the present day. On this tour, each participant receives a copy of the book Medellín up close and a pen or pencil so that, throughout the experience, they can use the pages of notes at the back of the book as their own travel diary, which they can keep throughout their lives as a souvenir of their stay in Medellín. It is a full day tour, in which you drive through the city and make more than 10 stops, to get closer to the gastronomy, mingle in the daily life of the inhabitants and listen to the stories that let you understand the evolution of the village that became a metropolis.
