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We will visit a great number of atractives while we walk along the historic area of the city. We will be doing a great exercise walking almost for three hours and enjoying the touristic area of the city. After this tour you will understand the city and you will know wich places you can visit on your own during your stay in Cali.

Itinerary

  • Gato de Tejada

    15 minsAdmission Ticket Included
    Monument to the river cat located on the left bank of the Cali River, Within the plans for the rescue of the Cali river and the embellishment of its banks, the idea was born of locating a monumental sculpture on one of its banks, it was as well as the renowned painter and sculptor Hernando Tejada donated his work called "El gato del Rio" to be cast in bronze on a large scale, which has a height of 3.5 meters, a width of 3.40 and a thickness of 1.95 meters. The sculpture weighs three tons and was cast in Bogotá, where the roof of the workshop had to be dismantled to be moved. The work was inaugurated on July 3, 1996.
  • Museo La Tertulia(Pass by)

    Admission Ticket Free
    It is located in the old sector called "Charco del Burro", a place that was a natural spa of Los Caleños. The idea arose from the group called la tertulia, in the mid 50's that met periodically to discuss cultural issues and socially converse. It is a modern construction, it makes a stylized sketch of the ancient Greek temples with a large colonnade that precedes them.
  • Barrio San Antonio(Pass by)

    Admission Ticket Free
    San Antonio is famous for its architecture, especially for its houses. A typical house usually has one or two floors, with a hallway and a central or main patio with a river stone floor and a wooden pilaster nearby; a second patio adjoining the bathrooms and kitchen, and a large plot where it is not uncommon to find fruit trees. Its facades are thick-walled with wooden beams, the characteristic windows of the sector have wooden bars or iron, with four wings of which two, the highest, remain open; the main door is double and with a peephole.
  • Iglesia La Merced

    10 minsAdmission Ticket Included
    This convent was inhabited by Mercedarian Monks until 1813, when it was the headquarters of General Mosquera's troops and later passed into the hands of the Augustinian Recoleta nuns, this complex is made up of the Chapels of the Virgen de las Mercedes and the Chapel of the Virgen de los Remedios, the Chapel of San Juan de Letrán, the Religious Convent and the Museum of Colonial and Religious Art La Merced. It was declared a National Monument in the month of February 1975.
  • Teatro Municipal Enrique Buenaventura(Pass by)

    Admission Ticket Free
    It is a building belonging to the architectural trend started in the 19th century of Creole classicism. In its construction the model of the Italian opera house was followed, with its respective neoclassical adaptations. It was the first construction to display decorative arts, it retains its original curtain made by G. Alessandrini from the Peyron house in Rome, as well as the imported seats from Austria, the curtains and the coffered ceilings commissioned from the Henry Lefol house in Paris.
  • Plaza San Francisco

    5 minsAdmission Ticket Included
    Plazoleta de la Gobernación It is the meeting place for public, civic, cultural and political life where different cultural events are held. Its name is: Plazoleta Cívica de Cali, adorned by a water fountain built in 1970 and a monument that honors the reverend father: Fray Damián González; It is also known as Plazoleta de San Francisco. The old building was destroyed in 1960, replacing it with the current modern construction of the Valle del Cauca governorate, inaugurated in 1969.
  • Plaza de Caicedo

    5 minsAdmission Ticket Included
    Since the foundation of the city, it has been the epicenter of public, commercial and political life. During the colonial period it was called Plaza Mayor and it was the meeting point of the colonial village, later it was called Plaza de la Constitución until 1913 when the name was changed to Plaza de Caicedo, as a posthumous tribute to the hero from Cali JOAQUIN DE CAYZEDO Y CUERO, a protomartyr of independence and who was shot in the city of Pasto on January 25, 1813, was how a monument in his name was installed in the center of the square.
  • Puente Ortiz

    5 minsAdmission Ticket Included
    The Ortiz Bridge is the most important civil work of the city as it represents different stages in its urban development and together with Paseo Bolívar and the Cali River it constitutes the vital part of the citizen image. At the beginning of the 20th century, the bridge structures the main axis of the city; the twelfth street where the main commercial and exchange activities were developed.
  • Plazoleta Jairo Varela

    30 minsAdmission Ticket Included
    Until August 8, 2012, it would be called the plaza of the caleñidad. Unfortunately that day the master Jairo Varela founder, musician and composer of the Niche group passed away. In his honor, the mayor of that time, together with the Cali council, decided to change the name to the Jairo Varela square. The plaza has a sound sculpture in homage to the wind instruments used by the Niche group, such as trombones and trumpets. It measures 24 meters long by 11 meters high, weighs 4 tons.

What's included

INCLUDED

Private transportation
Typical drink of the city

NOT INCLUDED

Lunch

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Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Good To Know
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

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