Medellín, Kolombiya: yıl boyunca neler var

Çok kalabalık — The Monday puentes, Alumbrados navidenos

• Tatil

  The Monday puentes

  1 Oca – 31 AraResmî tatilKalabalık

  Colombia moves most of its public holidays onto a Monday, so the country takes a long weekend roughly every month. Guatape, Jardin and the road out of the valley are solid on every one of them. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Alumbrados navidenos (28 Kas – 14 Oca (genelde)), The drier weeks between the rains (15 Ara – 10 Mar), Novenas and the December break (16 Ara – 6 Oca)

Kalabalık — The Monday puentes, burayı dolduran pazarların 3 tanesinde okul tatili

Şubat ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: The Monday puentes (1 Oca – 31 Ara), The drier weeks between the rains (15 Ara – 10 Mar)

Çok kalabalık — The Monday puentes, Semana Santa

• Tatil

  Semana Santa

  29 Mar – 5 NisPaskalya ve Kutsal HaftaKalabalıkKapanışlar

  Antioquia empties towards the coast and the pueblos, so the city itself is quieter than usual while Guatape and Jardin are solid. Thursday and Friday are effectively shut in the centre. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: The Monday puentes (1 Oca – 31 Ara), The drier weeks between the rains (15 Ara – 10 Mar)

Çok kalabalık — The Monday puentes, Semana Santa

Nisan ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: The Monday puentes (1 Oca – 31 Ara), Semana Santa (29 Mar – 5 Nis)

Kalabalık — The Monday puentes

Mayıs ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: The Monday puentes (1 Oca – 31 Ara)

Çok kalabalık — The Monday puentes, Kolombiya genelinde Mid-year recess

• Festival

  Festival Internacional de Tango

  8–14 HazMüzik festivali

  A week of milongas, contests and free concerts, most of it municipal and free to walk into. Gardel died here in 1935 and the city has never let go of it, which is why this festival is not a novelty act. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: The Monday puentes (1 Oca – 31 Ara)

Çok kalabalık — The Monday puentes, Feria de las Flores

• Festival

  Feria de las Flores

  31 Tem – 9 AğuBüyük festivalKalabalıkErken rezervasyon

  Ten days and two hundred-odd events: classic car parade, horse fair, open-air concerts and the whole city out on the street. The single busiest stretch of the Medellin year, and rooms go months ahead. Kaynak ↗

• Festival

  Colombiamoda

  28 Tem – 5 Ağu · geneldeSanat festivaliKalabalıkErken rezervasyon

  Latin America's largest fashion trade week fills Plaza Mayor and the Poblado hotels for four days in late July, and it runs straight into the start of the flower fair. Together they are the year's tightest fortnight. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: The Monday puentes (1 Oca – 31 Ara)

Çok kalabalık — The Monday puentes, Feria de las Flores

• Festival

  Desfile de Silleteros

  9 AğuBüyük festivalKalabalıkKapanışlar

  Five hundred growers from Santa Elena carry flower arrangements the size of doors on their backs along the river corridor, on the last afternoon of the fair. Grandstand seats are sold; the free stretches fill by lunchtime. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: The Monday puentes (1 Oca – 31 Ara), Feria de las Flores (31 Tem – 9 Ağu), Colombiamoda (28 Tem – 5 Ağu (genelde))

Kalabalık — The Monday puentes, burayı dolduran pazarların 2 tanesinde okul tatili

• Festival

  Fiesta del Libro y la Cultura

  11–20 Eyl · geneldeSanat festivali

  Ten days of stalls, readings and free concerts through the botanical garden and the science park in September, and one of the best-attended book fairs on the continent. Free to walk into. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: The Monday puentes (1 Oca – 31 Ara)

Çok kalabalık — The Monday puentes, Kolombiya genelinde October recess week

Ekim ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: The Monday puentes (1 Oca – 31 Ara)

Çok kalabalık — The Monday puentes, Alumbrados navidenos

• Açılış

  Alumbrados navidenos

  28 Kas – 14 Oca · geneldeNoel ve yılbaşıKalabalık

  The utility company strings millions of lights along the river and the main avenues and switches them on at the end of November, then leaves them up into mid-January. Weekend evenings on the river walk are shoulder to shoulder. Kaynak ↗

• Festival

  La Alborada

  30 Kas – 1 AraNoel ve yılbaşıRisk

  At midnight on the last night of November the whole valley sets off fireworks at once for hours, an unofficial start to Christmas with an ugly history behind it. Nobody in Medellin sleeps through it. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: The Monday puentes (1 Oca – 31 Ara)

Çok kalabalık — The Monday puentes, Alumbrados navidenos

• Sezon

  The drier weeks between the rains

  15 Ara – 10 MarKurak sezon

  Rain here runs on two cycles rather than one wet season, and the gaps are roughly late December to early March and again through July and August. Those are the weeks the pueblos day trip actually works.

• Tatil

  Novenas and the December break

  16 Ara – 6 OcaNoel ve yılbaşıKalabalıkErken rezervasyon

  Nine nights of neighbourhood novenas from the sixteenth, then a fortnight in which Colombians who live abroad come home. Flights into Rionegro and city apartments both price like a peak season, because it is one. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: The Monday puentes (1 Oca – 31 Ara), Alumbrados navidenos (28 Kas – 14 Oca (genelde)), La Alborada (30 Kas – 1 Ara)