Calle Real & Plaza de Bolívar, Salento
Calle Real, Salento
Salento's liveliest colourful old street, with colonial-style houses and wooden balconies, craft shops and cafés. It runs from the main square.
Calle Real (Sixth Avenue) runs about two blocks north from Plaza Bolívar in Salento. Both sides are lined with brightly painted Antioquian colonial houses, their doors, windows and balconies in red, yellow, blue and green. The ground floors are filled with craft shops, cafés and small restaurants. Willys jeeps bound for Cocora Valley park on the square, and on weekends there are markets and street performances. Here you can taste trout with patacón (fried green plantain) and local coffee. In the evening, visit a bar to play tejo, a game of throwing disks at a target. Steps at the end of the street lead up to a viewpoint.
Opening hours
All day
Nearby sights
- Mirador Alto de la Cruz
- Finca Don Elías
- Finca El Ocaso
- Barbas–Bremen Reserve
- Cementerio Libre de Circasia
- Cocora Valley
- Otún Quimbaya Flora and Fauna Sanctuary
- Filandia