Trips to Colombia

TRIPS TO COLOMBIA: CALI

Department: The Valley of the Cauca

Temperature average: 23°C

Altitude: 1000 ms

Airport: Airport the International Alfonso Bonilla Aragon

Main sites of interest:

- Archaeological Museum the Favor

- Museum of Colonial and Religious Art the Favor

- Chapel and Convent the Favor

- Archiepiscopal Palace

- Museum of Gold

- The Hermitage

- Commercial Center Holguines Trade Center


Cali is well-known like the world-wide capital of the sauce. It is a warm, civic city and cheers that it shelters amiable people and beautiful women; it is the ideal place to realize events and meetings because it counts on good hotel complex of national and international level.

In his search of so appraised legend of the Gilded one that undertook Sebastián de Belalcazar, it left Quito guided by the strange stories of a northern one that the wealth of its earth announced. The main cacique told that, after bathing in gold submerged in crystalline waters of a sagrada lagoon, while its town threw offerings of gold and jewels in honor of its Gods.

This way, and after seeing the failure of two of its expeditions, Belalcazar decides to realize permanent foundations to use them like datum points, and finally the 25 of July of 1,536, day of the Santiago apostle, Miguel Lopez Muñoz, by delegation of Belalcazar, nailed a banner and I carry out the foundation of the city under the name of Santiago of Cali.

At the moment the region owns most important sugar talents and one of the greater industrial zones of the country, until the point of which Cali is the third Colombian city in industrial and commercial importance. The city counts on comfortable commercial centers, social clubs, modern hotels and restaurants, and ample green zones that do of Cali one of the most pleasant cities of the country.

Framed by the statue of Christ King, the Monument of the Three Crossings, the Monument to Sebastián de Belalcazar and the park of the Farallones, Cali appears before the country like an amiable, civic city and cheers with celebrations like the Fair of the Sugar Cane, realized between the 25 and 30 of December, turning it into the “World-wide Capital of the Sauce” intermingling song, it dances, bulls, typical cavalcades, culture, meals and diversion.

In earth bordering to Cali, green and fertile, there are beautiful property that they invite to realize pleasant excursions. To 36 km to the north of Cali, in the route towards the Cerrito, is the Property the Paradise, scope in which Maria is developed to the action of the novel, builds principle of the American romantic realism of Jorge Isaacs, several times taken to the cinema.

Also we can find in the neighborhood of Cali the properties of Cañasgordas and Piedechinche, this completes is soothes of the Museum of the Cane; also the Farallones is possible to know National the Park Natural.