Medellín has been transforming, allowing anyone, in any condition, to walk its streets and visit its tourist attractions in an easy, safe, comfortable, and efficient way. These transformations have encouraged locals and visitors to go out, know, and enjoy the unique places found in the city. Get to know them and remember that they are open and willing for your enjoyment and learning, some of them are:

Passages in the Center of Medellín

In Medellín, you can enjoy several passages in which you can find local shops with gastronomy, crafts, textile offers, and much more.

In its remodeling, signage has been a very important issue; Well, from the tactile guides and the intelligent traffic lights to the ramps and wide spaces; all visitors are allowed to fully enjoy the experience of these places designed for recreation.

Bolívar passage invites you to take a quiet tour in which it is possible to take a few breaks in the spaces designated for it. This place is one of the newest public space interventions in the city center. Passages Carabobo and Junín are more designed for shopping, however, they are a perfect setting to discover and experience the dynamics of the city from the proximity and direct interaction with the locals.

Botero Square

Botero Square is a very important place for Medellinians, an open-air museum and without a doubt, one of the meeting points for the greatest socialization in the Center of Medellín. This space is arranged for all people to visit, it has the necessary equipment for people with reduced mobility. Likewise, being a museum that is located in a square, it invites those who have not had the opportunity to visit one, to get closer to art through public space.

Medellín Botanical Garden

Its architectural spaces and the tranquility that it feels to be in this place represent a permanent invitation to all people who want to connect with nature and learn a little about the infinite biodiversity that our country has. This through a space of 13.2 hectares full of living collections of plants, designed for everyone, which manages to break any type of barrier, be it mobility and/or economic.

Desires Park

This urban park manages to create a synergy between cultural and social differences since it gathers many purposes in one place; from being a suitable space for artistic activities such as concerts, film screenings, and workshops, to be a pleasant place for rest and passive recreation in the middle of the city. The Desires Park is a cultural meeting center for all tastes, arranged and suitable in an accessible way, both for people with any type of mobility limitation and with free access so that everyone, locals and visitors, can enjoy this space that hides great lessons, as well as lots of fun.

Barefoot Park

Barefoot Park is a thematic space that seeks to sensitize its visitors “starting with their feet and ending with their spirit.” This space open to the public, has specialized guides, who from their experience and knowledge will take you through a magical world between nature and science. With its ramps and accesses designed for everyone, you can enjoy this urban oasis without any limitation.

Explora Park

This interactive museum in the northern part of the city invites all people to enter the world of science and technology in a dynamic and creative way. Looking for the impact of a greater number of people; boys and girls under 2 years of age, people with disabilities, and residents of neighborhoods in strata 1, 2, and 3 of Medellín enter free; the latter, presenting the utility bill.

Medellín Planetarium

The Medellín Planetarium invites the “wanderers of the universe” to enter the world of space and Earth science with 42 interactive experiences and a digital dome. Usually, the entrance has a cost of $ 17,000 COP (5 dollars approximately), however, and consistent with its inclusion and accessibility policies, for people with disabilities and inhabitants of neighborhoods of strata 1, 2, and 3 of the city, the entrance is also free by presenting the utility bill.

House of Memory Museum

House of Memory Museum takes a journey through the history of the armed conflict in Colombia, the culture of peace, and the reparation processes, seeking to rediscover hope and contribute to the cultural transformation of the country. The house has free admission and you can visit multiple rotating exhibitions and other fixed ones. Likewise, you can enjoy guided tours that have all the infrastructure for the mobilization of people with disabilities.

Museum of Antioquia

In the Museum of Antioquia, neighboring Botero Square, it is possible to contemplate the art of the most outstanding artists of the region and the country. Like other tourist and cultural places in the city, it has chosen to offer free admission to people from strata 1, 2, and 3 of the city, when presenting the utility bill.

Likewise, the accessibility of this space is reflected from the entrance where you can also find a ramp on its side for the mobility of people who have some type of limitation.

Water museum

The Medellín Water Museum is a space in which you will learn everything related to this vital resource through an interactive adventure. It also offers free admission to people who live in neighborhoods of socioeconomic strata 1, 2 or 3, presenting the utility bill.

All these places are strategically located to finally be connected by the city’s public transport system par excellence, the Medellín Metro, which has a system that with its commitment to sustainable mobility, has sought since its creation to generate social impact, among other things, due to its principle of accessibility, from the cost of the services it provides to its infrastructure.

Other bets of accessible and inclusive tourism

Millon Art, Drink & Food Restaurant

Colombia’s first sensorial and inclusive cafe/restaurant located in Barrio La Candelaria. At the Millon Art, Drink & Food Restaurant you will live a unique experience from start to finish, as the place is attended by people with hearing and visual disabilities. There, sign language is the universal language, and while you place your order you will have the opportunity to learn it a little.

Rituals Cafe

¨We are the cafe of Barrio La Sierra¨, this is the phrase that can be read on one of the walls of the café located in Barrio Laureles and which fondly commemorates that its coffee is grown in a neighborhood that for many years had to live together with urban warfare. Its name, which seems more like a poem, is inspired by the ritual that represents the process of drinking a very good quality coffee, from the harvest to the cup.

Crepes and Waffles Restaurant

This restaurant, which today has headquarters in five countries, has achieved great recognition for its philosophy of inclusion that ranges from hiring women heads of household, as well as people in difficult conditions, whether economic, political and/or social groups, people displaced, demobilized or affected by some type of violence.

This restaurant chain seeks to generate opportunities and value all the capabilities that people have in any type of condition. You can see the 28 locations of the Crepes and Waffles restaurant in Medellín here.

Accessible tourism through inclusive tours

The streets of the city center witness the passage of a nightly express each night, one that with a handful of tourists travels its streets, avenues, and historical sites to promote a more inclusive tourism in Medellín and to redefine some places that although tourists traditionally visit little, they invite resilience and inclusion through discovering, inhabiting and recognizing them.

This tour made by Medellín Galería Tour is carried out in a very special way, as it provides an inclusive experience; making sure to visit places with the necessary infrastructure so that anyone, with or without disabilities, can enjoy the tour in a quiet and enjoyable way.

If you dare to do one of these tours, you must contact Manuel Córdoba. He has every corner of Medellín in his head and will surely lead you to understand the past and the social context of the city first hand. You can contact him on the cell phone +57 321 6464770.

Semilleros Network

Another way in which Medellín Galería Tour promotes inclusive tourism is through its Network of Semilleros, through which they train community guides and people with reduced mobility in languages, history, art, and architecture to accompany visitors through this express that runs through the heart of the city.

All these advances in accessible tourism have been achieved thanks to the union of public and private entities, and people in general; that every day they are more aware of the importance of the fact that everyone can walk their streets, know their stories, engage in meaningful conversations and generate transformative actions without any type of barrier.

The union of all these efforts has materialized in important projects that present a tourist offer designed for everyone.

Read also: Community Tourism, another view of Medellín.