Public transportation options are available nearby
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Discover the hidden side of Medellín on this immersive walking tour through Downtown. Hidden Medellín is not a typical sightseeing experience—it’s a journey into the city’s untold stories, where memories of violence, faith, exclusion, and resistance coexist.
Walk through streets, bridges, and facades where the silenced resurfaces, and explore spaces that reveal the contradictions and resilience of Medellín. Along the way, engage with the city through stories, testimonies, and observations that challenge what you think you know.
This experience invites reflection, curiosity, and open questions. It’s about seeing Medellín through other eyes and understanding the layers of its history and cul...
Highlights
3 hours
Offered in English & Spanish
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
3 hours
Offered in English & Spanish
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Local bilingual guide, explore heritage, religious, and contested landmarks, beer and souvenir
Public transportation
Meeting Points
Departure
Cra 51 con Cll 58
Main entrance of Prado Metro Station in Medellín. Look for a guide with an orange umbrella.
Return
Torres de Bomboná
Hidden Medellín: Through the Unseen Tour
Medellin
About
Discover the hidden side of Medellín on this immersive walking tour through Downtown. Hidden Medellín is not a typical sightseeing experience—it’s a journey into the city’s untold stories, where memories of violence, faith, exclusion, and resistance coexist.
Walk through streets, bridges, and facades where the silenced resurfaces, and explore spaces that reveal the contradictions and resilience of Medellín. Along the way, engage with the city through stories, testimonies, and observations that challenge what you think you know.
This experience invites reflection, curiosity, and open questions. It’s about seeing Medellín through other eyes and understanding the layers of its history and cul...
Highlights
3 hours
Offered in English & Spanish
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
3 hours
Offered in English & Spanish
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Local bilingual guide, explore heritage, religious, and contested landmarks, beer and souvenir
Public transportation
Meeting Points
Departure
Cra 51 con Cll 58
Main entrance of Prado Metro Station in Medellín. Look for a guide with an orange umbrella.
Return
Torres de Bomboná
Itinerary
1
Prado
We begin in Medellín’s historic Prado neighborhood, once home to the city’s elites. While walking among early 20th-century mansions, we explore how architecture reveals changing power, class, and urban decline.
20 minutes
2
Calle Barbacoas
Enter an area historically associated with prostitution and social stigma. Here we discuss tolerance zones, regulation of bodies, and how morality has shaped who is allowed to inhabit public space.
25 minutes
3
Catedral Basilica Metropolitana de Medellin
At one of Medellín’s most traditional public squares, participants examine the role of religion in shaping social norms, morality, and collective responses to violence.
20 minutes
4
Commercial Pasaje Junín Maracaibo
Walk along Medellín’s most iconic historic commercial street while discussing how modernization, consumption, and urban transformation reshaped women's public life.
20 minutes
5
La Casa Centro Cultural
Learn about spaces connected to Medellín’s LGBTQ+ community and how marginalized groups have fought for visibility and belonging in the city center.
20 minutes
6
Plazuela San Ignacio
Near historic educational institutions, travelers explore the relationship between youth movements, political debate, and the role of education in shaping Medellín’s social transformations.
15 minutes
7
Pasaje Cervantes
The experience ends in a local cultural spot where participants reflect on the themes of the tour and experience Medellín’s social tradition of “parchar” — gathering, talking, and inhabiting the city together.
