Travel to Barranquilla | Trip to Barranquilla | Travel Barranquilla Colombia

Below we show the most important sights of the city of Barranquilla in Colombia. Barranquilla is the fourth largest city after Bogotá, Medellín and Cali and the main seaport of Colombia. Known for its carnivals and merry citizens who spread their enthusiasm to tourists.
	*Sightseeing of Barranquilla in Colombia*
	*The tour of Bolivar*	*Barranquilla Zoo*
	It's situated in the center of Barranquilla and is the most important avenue in the city. This avenue led to the expansion of the city that is still produced today. Near the square are the most prominent Republicans buildings so it's a must if you travel to Barranquilla.	This is a complete zoo with over 140 different species among which predominate the usual Caribbean. We can find marmosets, bats, reptiles, chimpanzees, eagles, condors, flamingos, manatees, spectacled bears, lions and parrots and other animals.
	*Bocas de Ceniza*	*Romantic Museum*
	It's the name that is popularly known to the mouth of the Magdalena River in the Caribbean Sea. We organize boat trips to visit their marshes and sightseeing in its restaurants or enjoy typical regional dishes. There is also option to do a tour on a train.	This is an old Republican style mansion donated to the city, which displays exhibits relating to the history of the city such as costumes from the carnival, the typewriter by Gabriel García Márquez, Simón Bolívar's letters, photographs and a small periodicals on Barranquilla.
	*Barranquilla Carnival*	*St. Nicholas Church*
	One of the most representative of the city of Barranquilla who competes in importance with the carnival in Rio de Janeiro. The entire city is decked to offer the best of itself and its inhabitants are released fun willing to enjoy this event in the month of February.	It's a prominent church in the city of Barranquilla seventeenth century, made in Gothic style and built in honor of the city's patron San Nicolas de Tolentino. For many years it was the "Cathedral" of the city until 1982 in which I will be the Metropolitan Cathedral Mary Queen.
	*Anthropological and Ethnological Museum*	*Metropolitan Cathedral Mary Queen*
	It's situated in the Faculty of Fine Arts degree from the Atlantic and inside we see a complete collection of pieces of indigenous cultures that inhabited the region before the Spanish conquest.	A modern building dedicated to the Virgin Queen designed by the Italian Angelo Mazzoni of Grande and consecrated the new cathedral city in 1982 during the pontificate of John Paul II.
	*Thomas Suri Salcedo Park*	*Museum of Modern Art*
	It's at the intersection of 72nd Street and Avenue Olaya Herrera and is named after a former Finance Ministry to push some improvements to the city. Inside we find areas for walks, rides and Basketball stadium Elias Chegwin.	It includes works by the second half of the twentieth century by authors such as Fernando Botero, Luis Caballero, Enrique Grau and Alejandro Obregon partially exposed in its rooms.
	*St. Nicholas Square*	*Place of peace*
	It's a remarkable place in the city that was the commercial, cultural and social development in the seventeenth century, eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many businesses are in it besides the church of St. Nicholas who also sits on this square.	It's situated in a central area of the city and was built taking advantage of the arrival of Pope John Paul II who visited nearby Metropolitan Cathedral Mary Queen. The name comes from a sculpture in which a policeman holding a dove as a sign of peace.
	*Metropolitan Park*	*Amira de la Rosa Theater*
	It's situated near the football stadium Roberto Melendez south of the city. Built on the occasion of the celebration of Copa America 2001 and has a sculpture of the most popular singer in Barranquilla, Shakira.	It was built in 1982 and designed by Alexander Obrerón adopting the name of the author and playwright Amira de la Rosa. You could say that is the cultural center of Barranquilla, which offers plays, painting exhibitions and various musical performances.
	*Stadium Roberto Meléndez*	*Alberto Pumarejo Bridge*
	Built in 1986, is a modern sports arena that houses the great football city and other athletic events. An interest in football both in Colombia in Barranquilla in particular is very prominent.	Another beautiful modern buildings that grace the Caribbean city of Barranquilla that links the city with the island of Salamanca across the Magdalena River. It's a symbol of the city which has been echoed by poets, singers and artists in their works.

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