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4 Nights and 5 Days
Medellin Santa Elena Guatape
The Medellin Flowers Festival is an event in which the city of Medellin acquires around this time an atmosphere of fun that has its kindest emblem in flowers. Balconies, terraces, flower boxes, fences, everything evokes the cherished image of the 'city of flowers' and 'eternal spring'. The call to this annual meeting with the ancestral themes of regional culture causes a powerful attraction effect, which translates into a significant flow of national and international tourists, who enthusiastically attend this event. Without distinction of age or social status, Medellin residents mingle with visitors to display their attributes of civility and kindness, as well as their famous tradition of hosting.
The Medellin Flowers Festival and its central event, the Silleteros Parade, constitute one of the cultural episodes most charged with affirming the identity of a town, as well as a lavish projection of the most welcoming face of the city of Medellin. In the retina and the hearts of everyone, actors, spectators, locals, and visitors, they will be forever recorded with the memories of this exhilarating celebration that takes to the streets and stages to introduce a parenthesis of fun that acts as a balm on the hectic work life of the Antioqueños.
Every year of the Flowers Festival, started in 1957, it is a season where the people of Antioquia show off being the best hosts in Colombia, it fills them with joy to enjoy the Great Flowers Festival with their visitors and share the silletera culture that represents the strength of the region; It is not in vain that the refrain goes 'When a silletero passes by, it is Antioquia that passes by'.
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On August 11 / 1813, the independence of Antioquia was proclaimed. The annual celebration of such an event is clothed in a festive atmosphere in every corner of the department, an occasion in which the most representative civic and cultural symbols of Antioquia are integrated into the fusion of collective feelings that renew optimism and hope in the joy that characterizes the Paisa people.
Medellin was recognized as the Best Emerging Destination in South America at the World Travel Awards in 2022. It has also won awards for Best Getaway Destination in South America in 2016, 2020, and 2021 and Best Meetings and Conference Destination in 2014 and 2015.
Years before the Guatape and El Peñol reservoir was built, the priest Jose Dolores Giraldo, parish priest of the municipality of El Peñol at that time, dreamed of a great dragon that would swallow the entire town, years later after the flood and disappearance of all the original urban center of El Peñol, said reservoir took the shape of a dragon, fulfilling the prophecy of the parish priest Jose Dolores.
Does the silleta owe its name to its shape and the use it was given years ago? This was used as a means of transportation by the silleteros to go down from the mountains to Medellin, carrying their flowers and people.
The Silleteros Parade has been officially held in Medellin since 1957 and was born as a boost to the market for flowers grown by farmers who live in rural areas surrounding the city, especially the town of Santa Elena.
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