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Barranquilla, una ciudad que ofrece más que los tambores del Carnaval
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Barranquilla, a city that offers more than the drums of the Carnival
Automatically translated into English thanks to WorldLingo
With its warm temperature and amiable people, it is a city of historical landmarks, culture, fashion, design, cooks, commercial centers and music that can be visited at any time of the year.

The coqueteo of the man to the woman and the answer of her, when moving their hips and, at the same time, unfolding the chicken farmer marking an imaginary wall to avoid to be attemped, translate cumbia.

And cumbia is, in Barranquilla, synonymous of Carnival. That contagious celebration, that goes of January to February or until half-full of March, finalizing 40 days before Easter, is a mark that it identifies to “the Sandy one” before the world.

Pero Barranquilla not only is Carnival, although the glad spirit of his inhabitants gave the impression otherwise. The cradle of Shakira, Édgar Rentería and Junior is much more that the waste gozón of the God Momo.

For example, if the visitor wishes to know the reason of so that the Gold Door is called “of Colombia”, single must go to the Romantic Museum, located in a fresh large house of the district the Prado.

There it will find how they were born, among others, aviation, the airmail, navigation to steam by the Magdalena river, the telephone and Colombian soccer. Or they will be able to observe the typewriter that Gabriel used Garci'a Márquez in his days of journalist in the city more ago than half century.

And by the Prado to walk admiring its mansions, relics of the first urbanization that rose in the country, and to finish in the Hotel the Prado, a legend of 80 years, pioneering also tourist in Colombia.

It arrives of the Prado is an exclusive sector of design and fashion, recognized the first houses of the Silvia Tcherassi, Francesca Miranda, Amalín de Hazbún and Beatriz Camacho, among others. As also a zone of restaurants of national and international kitchen in which the Arab food predominates.

In the district the Flowers, in artisan houses, can be tasted fish and seafood with the breeze striking the cheeks and an impressive frame of the Magdalena river, to few kilometers of their opening.

Lowering of the Flowers, river arrives, by the Route 40, the same one that serves from scene the parades of the Carnival, is arrived at the Customs, an rescued monument that lodges culture and history and serves like seat as the Library Pilot as the Caribbean.

To a few meters the Cultural Park of the Caribbean rises, that still without finishing - its inauguration is predicted for September is elevated like the maximum cultural museum of the region in which “it will paint” of whole body the Caribbean man.

A forced visit is the Cave, the restaurant-bar of Garci'a Márquez and his friends of Grupo Barranquilla (most important of artists in the history of the country), where besides to taste an exquisite plate or to drink a drink of rum it will be able to admire part of the magical realism of “urbanized Macondo”.


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