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Medellín

Colombia · 10 quests

History

1 quest
San Pedro Cemetery, Medellín🇨🇴 Medellín
San Pedro Cemetery
Marble tombs tell a city's private history

Nature

1 quest
Botanical Garden, Medellín🇨🇴 Medellín
Botanical Garden
Its orchid house grows beneath a wooden forest

Art

3 quests
Comuna 13 Escalators, Medellín🇨🇴 Medellín
Comuna 13 Escalators
Six escalators replace 350 hillside steps
Casa Pedro Nel Gómez, Medellín🇨🇴 Medellín
Casa Pedro Nel Gómez
His home keeps murals under one roof
Plaza Botero, Medellín🇨🇴 Medellín
Plaza Botero
Every bronze figure has an oversized form

Food

3 quests
Mondongo, Medellín🇨🇴 Medellín
Mondongo
Tripe sits at the heart of this local soup
Sweet Corn Arepa, Medellín🇨🇴 Medellín
Sweet Corn Arepa
Sweet corn hides a salty cheese surprise
Bandeja paisa, Medellín🇨🇴 Medellín
Bandeja paisa
Beans, rice and a fried egg share one platter

Sport

1 quest
Atanasio Girardot, Medellín🇨🇴 Medellín
Atanasio Girardot
Two clubs share this football ground

Party

1 quest
Berlin Bar 1930, Medellín🇨🇴 Medellín
Berlin Bar 1930
A vintage Berlin theme replaces the usual club night

Colombia

Photo quests in Medellín

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Medellín holds ten quests across six categories, with no single one of them defining the place: Art and Food are level at three quests each. The one category with nothing in Medellín so far is Beach.

One is tier 1, the tier kept for what a visitor would not have found on their own: Casa Pedro Nel Gómez. It is also the only quest here whose check-in asks for PRO; the other nine are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers seven of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Medellín quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The one quests in Medellín the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Medellín

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Medellín

How many photo quests are there in Medellín?
10, across six of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Art (3) and Food (3). Nothing in Beach here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: San Pedro Cemetery, Botanical Garden and Comuna 13 Escalators.
What is there to do in Medellín beyond the obvious?
One of the 10 quests in Medellín is tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Medellín holds one at tier 1, two at tier 2 and seven at tier 3. The tier 1 quest here is Casa Pedro Nel Gómez, in Art.
Can you do all the Medellín quests on one trip?
Yes, given a few days. Every one of the 10 falls within 6.0 km of the middle of the Medellín list — walking and local transport, not day trips — so this is a list to plan a visit around rather than a reason to extend one.
Which Medellín quests can you do for free?
9 of the 10 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 10 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Medellín means one quest: Casa Pedro Nel Gómez.
How do I prove I visited a place in Medellín?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Medellín is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from San Pedro Cemetery fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Medellín sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.