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    My Colombian Recipes » About Colombia » This Is Medellín

    This is Medellín

    Jul 16, 2009 · Modified: Jul 14, 2021 by Erica Dinho · 25 Comments

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    Medellín is the city in which I was born and raised. It is located in the Andean zone of the country and is the capital of the state of Antioquia. Medellin is one of Colombia’s most important and influential cities because of its beauty, population and economy.

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    The city is famous for its mountains, which surround the city and its year-round semi-tropical climate. The days are warm and the nights cool. The year-round spring weather is the reason Medellin is called “The city of the eternal spring” or La ciudad de la eternal primavera.Pin

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    About Erica Dinho

    My name is Erica and I was born and raised in Colombia and now live in the northeastern United States with my husband and family. This blog was inspired by my grandmother, Mamita, who was an amazing traditional Colombian cook.

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    1. rebecca subbiah

      July 16, 2009 at 7:47 am

      looks wonderful would love to go to Columbia one day have only been to central America, but we will for sure LOL

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      • Oscar

        June 13, 2012 at 11:10 am

        Colombia my love. Columbia is a University and a district in the United States.

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    2. Juju

      July 16, 2009 at 7:31 am

      Wow. It's beautiful. I really do have to visit.

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    3. Ann

      July 16, 2009 at 8:59 am

      Lovely pitures, I wish I can visit that place sometime 🙂

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    4. Oysterculture

      July 16, 2009 at 10:14 am

      Wow Erica it looks like a beautiful city - thanks so much for sharing these pictures. I love the location with the mountains in the background

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    5. Hélène

      July 16, 2009 at 1:54 pm

      Thanks for the pics, sounds like a beautiful place to visit.

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    6. Soma

      July 16, 2009 at 3:26 pm

      Mountains are the first thing that i noticed. How beautiful. it is my dream to finally settle in a place which has mountains all around it.. but for now . I am living in the flattest of all places:-)

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    7. Gera @ SweetsFoods

      July 16, 2009 at 6:21 pm

      Erica I’d love to visit Medellín, love mountains and so beautiful pics 🙂

      Cheers!

      Gera

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    8. Danielle

      July 16, 2009 at 7:08 pm

      what a beautiful city!

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    9. rebecca subbiah

      July 16, 2009 at 10:04 pm

      By the way I changed my site address to https://chowandchatter.blogspot.com
      To match the name ! Love Rebecca

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    10. Pocky

      July 16, 2009 at 10:20 pm

      Your pictures are beautiful. They'd make awesome looking postcards.

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    11. Kim

      July 16, 2009 at 10:15 pm

      What a beautiful city. Thanks for sharing those pictures. The mountains are so beautiful and green.

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    12. Lori Lynn

      July 16, 2009 at 11:42 pm

      Thanks for sharing, I bet it is an awesome place. You are fortunate.
      LL

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    13. John

      July 17, 2009 at 2:30 am

      Beautiful setting--love the mountains!

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    14. Erica

      July 17, 2009 at 6:35 am

      Thank you all for the comments!

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    15. Anna

      July 17, 2009 at 6:41 pm

      Beautiful pictures Erica, I would love to visit.

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    16. Velva

      July 18, 2009 at 12:03 pm

      Thank you for sharing photos of your homeland with your blogger friends. Very nice.

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    17. Erica

      July 19, 2009 at 7:18 am

      I appeciate you taking the time to visit and leaving a comment.

      Thank you so much!

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    18. marya

      July 22, 2009 at 8:28 pm

      You live in a very gorgeous city! And all these food! It is now in my list of must-see places! Thanks for dropping by my blog! will follow this one.

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    19. the epicurean's market

      July 22, 2009 at 9:59 pm

      What a beautiful place -- I can see why you miss it so much.

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    20. jeniffer

      December 14, 2009 at 1:42 pm

      love your website!! im from medellin too!! i love my city its beutiful and i love your resepies!! so yummi!!

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    21. Kristy

      August 19, 2010 at 10:56 am

      oh sooooo homesick for this city of my heart...all of you who say you want to visit, you must. Medellin is wonderful, beautiful and the best city I've ever lived in - I loved it. The monthly san alejo market downtown is a blast, the restaurants are amazing - can't tell you all the wonderful places we ate - we went to some of them so often that the waiters knew our drinks order and had them ready as soon as they saw us enter. It is a spectacular place and I wish more people would over-come all the negative stereotypes they see in the media and visit this wonderful place. I plan on retiring here. 14 more years in North America then back to Colombia.

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    22. Andrew

      October 17, 2011 at 2:16 am

      Just got back a few weeks ago from Medellin. Had the usual Bandeja Paisa, Lulu, etc. Also managed to get some Mamoncillos and Guarapo (my favorite). We stayed in a nice hotel in Poblado. I love the place. We also went to one of the islands which was nice but very quiet.

      Medellin has changed from when I was there last. It is said you now can take the freeway to Santa Fe Antioquia in about 1 hr now. New roads, bridges, etc. A lot of construction work

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    23. Abril

      March 26, 2012 at 8:26 pm

      I have family there too where does your family live, mine own a Plantation of plantanos and bananas. Maybe you know them.

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    24. Linda

      March 21, 2013 at 4:13 pm

      Medellin is a beautiful city with wonderful restaurants. I hope to go again.

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