Medellin Events, Feria de Flores.

Each year thousands of people gather around the party, the memory and values ​​of the entire region of Antioquia which celebrates the flowering of the race and their customs. Of life itself. The smell of evergreen, a carnation, a sunflower or Orchid.
As is customary each year, down from the village of Santa Elena hundreds of farmers lugging magnificent and colorful works: their saddles. The most beautiful demonstrations of love for the land, culture and tradition of a people for whom flowers have been part of their development.
To understand the world of flowers you need love. That love they have for farmers, silleteros and flower lovers. Above all it requires the ability to marvel at its beauty and look of a child to talk with them and participate in their world. Agapanthus, star of Bethlehem, astromelias ... are flowers that are no longer used in the saddle, particularly in the emblematic and commercial. In traditional, that rule should take more than 25 types of flowers, there is still room for wild flowers and in memory of Antioquia and in the heart of silletero.

Transportation Metods, Metro de Medellin

Metro de Medellín. It is the first mass transit system to be built in Colombia. Began operations on November 30, 1995 and has since mobilized more than one billion passengers. The Metro runs through the metropolitan area from south to north, also extends from the center of the city to the west and from north to northeast. The Metro rail system combines an overhead cable system (not to be confused with the cable car system), which has been used for the first time in the world as permanent mass transit with complete success. The Metro has several types of levels (level ground, elevated viaducts and overhead), and has no underground sections. The Metro Network has a length of 30.8 km and comprises 5 lines: Line A with 19 stations, Line B with 7 stations, the H line connecting the metropolitan area with the natural park of the station Arví from Santo Domingo to the district wise Santa Elena, Line J Line K and each have 3 stations, the latter three are also commonly called metrocable.

Medellin Weather

The temperature of Medellín is determined by climatic zones ranging from heath (equivalent to 3 km ² of the territory) through the cold (192 km ²) up to half (185 km) where is the urban area, which has temperatures ranging between 16 and 28 ° C or 60 to 82 ° F. Higher temperatures ranging between 27 and 28.6 ° C, absolute maximum 32 ° C. And the lower range around 16 ° C, with absolute minimum of 10 ° C. The beginning and middle of the year is dry season, but beyond that the weather is changeable, wet at certain times. Average annual rainfall is moderate: 1656 mm, and is not equal across the valley. Rains farther south than the north.

Medellin Gastronomi

The cuisine of Antioquia and Medellin expresses the lifestyle of farmers and herdsmen who worked all day preparing food during the day. It is said that in its carrieles (typical bag) kept the ingredients of their food and the rich variety of food they were carrying, born rich bandeja paisa in which are the typical local products: beans, avocado, banana , rice and meat.

Meats such as chicken, pork and beef are present in all dishes of this region as well as corn. Cuisine is so rich, generous in its portions and very spicy.

MEDELLIN

Is a city and municipality in Colombia, capital of Antioquia department. Located in the northwest of the country in the center of the Aburrá Valley, located in the Cordillera Central, which is crossed by the Medellin River. Account, according to estimates by the DANE, with a population of 2,636,101 inhabitants by the year 2010, making it the second largest city in Colombia. For its part, the metropolitan area, also made ​​of Medellin for another 9 municipalities, has an estimated population for 2010 of 3,740,000 people, making it the second largest city in the country.