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Medellin is Colombia's third largest city, and though it's been traditionally associated with being the main headquarters of Colombia's drug cartels, a lot of effort has been made to change that image of the city.  Today is is one of Colombia's safer cities, and the country's second most popular tourist city.   The city is surrounded by high mountains and within the city are beautiful parks and numerous old churches and squares.  Be sure to visit Aburrá Valley  if you are into photography, or see the Metropolitan Cathedral to see the biggest brick-only sacred building in the world.

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Medellin n'est pas une ville où il est risqué de se promener contrairement aux idées reçues. Le seul danger c'est de traverser les rues à pied car les colombiens roulent comme des fous. La ville est intéressante pour ses vêtements, bijoux, artisanat originaux et peu chers. Il y a beaucoup de marchés où vous marchanderez c'est la tradition. Le musée Botero est un incontournable.Pour dormir, la location d'appartements est intéressante. Vous en trouverez à très bons prix dans des résidences surveillées avec piscine.Prenez le bus pour visiter la région d'Antioquia notamment Guatape et el Penol ( un étrange rocher où on peut monter et bénéficier d'une splendide vue) et Santa fe ( un très beau village colonial).Et enfin n'oubliez pas de goûter aux spécialités comme les arepas, bunuelos, chilenos, empanadas et le fameux plat des paisas la bandera.
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I travel to Medellín quite oftely for work. Beautiful city, you will be impressed as soon as you see it from the road from the airport (located in Rio Negro, 45 min. away)... Green mountains clear to this gorgeous valley where Medellín is based, with its red-bricks buldings. I usually stay at Intercontinental hotel (very good) but they just opened Medellín Royal, which I really enjoyed (smaller, boutique-like). For people who still believe Colombia is dangerous... you shouldn't!! Avoid the conflictive areas but don't miss cities like this one. At night time, Parque Lleras is the place to go!
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I love this place primarily because of my family connection to it. Aside from it offering anything from city life to suburbia to estates in farmlands, its weather is above par. Although it catches a bad rap for its drug/violence history, it has really cleaned up over the past 10 years. I've never really had any issues. It is an excellent place to travel , if visiting South America. Bogota is too americanized if you want to get away. The exhange rate has always been good. The food is amazing. Period. People are surprisingly friendly, especially compared to the U.S.
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