The best parks and plazas in Medellín

Medellin is a vibrant and colorful city in Colombia that offers many beautiful parks and squares to enjoy. These green spaces are ideal places to relax, exercise or simply spend some quality time with friends and family. They are places frequently visited by children and adults where you can enjoy the good weather, the city and appreciate art and a day with the family. In them you can find non-stop free fun.

In this article, we will explore some of the best parks and plazas in Medellin that you cannot miss during your visit to this incredible city.

Arvi Park
Canal Parque Gabriel García Márquez
Plaza Botero
Pies descalzos Park
Del Rio Park
Parque de los deseos
Medellin Botanical Garden
Aventura Escobero Park
Joaquin Antonio Uribe Botanical Garden in Medellín
De las Luces Park

Arvi Park

Arvi Park is an eco-tourism proposal located in the Corregimiento of Santa Elena, created for the enjoyment of the entire local, national and international community. It is an open park developed on land for public use, which through the construction of an organized tourist offer, allows the consolidation of a strategy of conservation and promotion of the potential and strengths of the district, exalting its cultural and environmental wealth as well as the archaeological heritage, the silletera tradition, the entrepreneurship of its people and more, through a sustainable nature tourism proposal. It is an ideal place to visit with the family.

Website: https://parquearvi.org/

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Recommended tours to Parque Arví

City Tour Medellin with Parque Arví

Canal Parque Gabriel García Márquez

Wooded park with fish ponds, climbing walls, playgrounds, trails and picnic areas. Visitors will be able to enjoy natural spaces for recreation and leisure from Monday to Sunday between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. m. and 7:00 p.m. m.

Plaza Botero

Plaza Botero is an open-air museum that displays 23 bronze sculptures by Colombian artist Fernando Botero. Surrounded by the Museum of Antioquia and the Rafael Uribe Palace of Culture, it is an outdoor park of 7,000 m². This square becomes a park that invites you to enjoy art. This open-air museum is a must-see site when visiting Medellín with your family.

Pies descalzos Park

Park with a sand area, fountains and a green area with a garden, as well as an interactive science museum. The Barefoot Park is a thematic space created with the purpose of raising awareness among its visitors “starting with their feet and ending with their spirit.” It is ideal for walking and relaxing. In the Park you will find specialized guides, who, using their experience and knowledge, will seek to take you through a magical world between nature and science.

Del Rio Park

It is a park of 71,800 square meters of public space that integrates the city with its Medellin river. You will be able to enjoy spaces full of nature and also cultural and gastronomic offers. There are different spaces to share with your family and give your pets a break. If you have children it is an ideal space for them.

Parque de los deseos

The Parque de los Deseos is a public space that offers you a wide variety of free cultural activities for your enjoyment and that of your family and friends.

Medellin Botanical Garden

Living museum and scientific research center. Environmental classroom for education, recreation and citizen culture.

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Aventura Escobero Park

If your children like the countryside and camping, you can’t miss this park. You find MX, Enduro, 4×4 tracks. Rental of motorcycles and quadricycles. Picnic and camping. Restaurant.

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Joaquin Antonio Uribe Botanical Garden in Medellín

The Joaquin Antonio Uribe Botanical Garden of Medellín is a botanical garden of about 13.2 hectares, located in the Colombian city of Medellín. In the Botanical Garden, you can see thousands of species of flora and fauna. It has a living museum, scientific research center, butterfly garden, environmental classroom for education, recreation and citizen culture. A tourist site that you cannot miss.

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De las Luces Park

Walking along Carabobo Avenue that connects Plaza Botero and the Parque de las Luces is one of the tourist sites that you should know. In the Park of Lights you can see a forest made up of 300 light towers that provide shade during the day and light up at night.