By Air

La Nubia Airport (IATA: MZL, ICAO: SKMZ) is located in Manizales, Colombia, 8 km southeast of the city's downtown.Due to its short runway and limited ramp space, the only aircraft which can use the airport are turbopropeller aircraft such as the Fokker 50, ATR 42 and the Dash 8 models.The main problem of La Nubia airport is weather.Sometimes shut down to fog, rain or winds, it is difficult for airlines to offer a reliable schedule for the passengers wishing to visit Manizales and Caldas, and combined with its limited hours of operation (just daylight), this fact has been an obstacle for the region's development.

By Bus

Travel around by bus costs approximately 900 COP to 1300 COP (between 40 and 90 cents US).To get around by taxi is quite cheap a minimum fee of 2,900 COP (about 1.50 dollar US).Travel by bus to nearby cities is also fairly cheap for example a bus ride to Medellin, a city 4 or 5 hours away, costs 32,000 COP one way (about $15 US).

By Taxi

The presence of taxis is massive enough, the service is controlled by a meter to rate the charge based on distance and travel time.The rates vary in a range from three thousand pesos (U.S. $ 1.5) up to ten thousand pesos (U.S. $ 5).The airport area has a fee of 2300 pesos (U.S. $ 1).

Manizales Theater Festival, Manizales Fair, Palogrande Stadium, Gold Museum, Plaza de Bolivar, Nevados National Natural Park

Manizales Theater Festival

Created in 1968 the International Theatre Festival of Manizales is the oldest theatrical event of the continent.Originally the festival brought together the most outstanding college theater groups and the most outstanding Latin American intellectuals who shaped the history of the event: Pablo Neruda, Miguel Angel Asturias, Ernesto Saturday, Alfonso Sastre, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jerzy Grotowski, Jack Lang , among other prominent writers and playwrights.Since 1984, after an absence of 10 years, the Festival selects professional groups and independent companies who seek renewal language experimentation for the theater.By parelala conducts workshops, forums and seminars with artists, managers and researchers a platform for dialogue that makes the game Manizales festival theater culture necessary for the world.More than 1500 companies from 40 countries have passed through Manila and form the great theatrical tradition of the father of some important festival festivals that take place today in America.

Manizales Fair

held annually in the Colombian city of Manizales, known for its bullfighting season and the International Queen of Coffee.This fair has Spanish roots, mimicking several of their customs, but also with many Colombian customs, especially the Andean region begins the first weekend of the year and ends the next.The International Coffee Pageant has always been since its inception in 1952, a sample of regional interest to present their culture and flagship product such as coffee, international, all supported by a series of local and national sponsors year after year to bring the event to go ahead and pushing Manizales Fair the event still remains one of the fundamental pillars on which rests with the bullfighting season.In 1954, while Oscar Botero Hoyos walked the streets of the Feria de Abril held in Sevilla (Spain), Roberto Cardona with Arias had a dream: La Feria de Manizales.With the support of Mario Velez Escobar, mayor of Manila at that time, and with the encouragement of people to create a party to celebrate the centenary of the city, began the show introducing large publicity posters and parades of women dressed as sevillanas in rustic carts. Due to its great success, were raised in it shows as the International Coffee Pageant, which become the bullfighting season in major events.

Palogrande Stadium

is a football stadium located in the city of Manizales, capital of the department of Caldas in Colombia.In this scenario plays its home games the team Once Caldas of the First Category A.Seating capacity is for 42,990 spectators.The stadium had a capacity for 16,000 spectators.In this scenario, played teams like Equitable, Atletico Cabal, the Racamasa, Manizales Atletico, Deportivo Manizales, Once Caldas Deportivo and Sport.The first official game was on Sunday August 15, 1948 at 3:30 pm with the game between Deportes Caldas and Independiente Santa Fe, which finished tied for 1x1.The goal of Sports Caldas, in 1971, opened the stadium lighting luminaries who came from New York.The first night game was on April 22, 1971, from Once Caldas and Junior.In 1996, he installed the roof of the stadium and also got the new lighting. To complete the opening of the stadium, they played a friendly match between Once Caldas and International Porto Alegre in Brazil, 1x1 The game ended tied.

Gold Museum

is located on the corner of Calle 16 with Carrera 6 th in the Parque de Santander, in the historic center of Bogota, Colombia.It has the pre-Hispanic gold collection of the world's largest, with about thirty-four thousand pieces of gold and tumbaga, about twenty-five thousand objects in ceramic, stone, shell, bone and textiles.The Gold Museum is collaborating with international museums since 1945 leading to temporary exhibitions all over the world, spreading of the great cultural wealth of pre-Columbian cultures.However there are pieces like the Balsa Muisca and Poporo Quimbaya, which for its great historical and cultural value are reserved to the permanent exhibition at its headquarters in Bogota.Among the important pieces highlighting the Muisca raft that was found in the municipality of Pasca, who represents the ceremony of the offering in the Lagoon of Guatavita near Bogota.For some historians this region and its handicrafts in gold production, as well as ceremonies and rites of offerings that were made in several lakes but especially in that of Guatavita gave rise to the legend of El Dorado.

Plaza de Bolivar

is one of the most recognized of Manizales is between race 22 and race 21, his most iconic south of the square is the Cathedral Basilica Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Manizales another important structure is the governor of Caldas north, the center is a statue of Bolivar Condor. The square has suffered many changes since its consolidation also seen structures rose around her, the architect Hector Botero Jaramillo was in charge of remodeling in the last 80 years after it was consolidated as a place because it only has a single level and surrounded by some stairs that delimit.The square also features two ceramic murals of artist Guillermo Botero Manizales, which adorn the the October 12, 1991, was officially enthroned Bolivar Condor sculptor Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt Antioquia.

Nevados National Natural Park

is located in the Central Cordillera in the Andean region of the Andes in Colombia.Its surface is part of the departments of Caldas, Risaralda, Quindio and Tolima, being divided between the municipalities of Villamaria, Santa Rosa de Cabal, Pereira, Salento, Villa Hermosa, Anzoategui, Santa Isabel, Murillo and Ibague.The park includes thermal levels corresponding to the cold, wilderness, superparamo and perpetual snow, so their main ecosystems are the Andean forests, moors and glaciers.It also includes the watersheds of some rivers, such as the River Otun, Totarito River, Mills River, Azufrado River, Lagunillas River, river Campoalegre and Guali River, among others.Before entering the park you can see the black lagoon. In the park are located: the Nevado del Ruiz, the Nevado del Tolima, the Nevado de Santa Isabel, the Nevado el Cisne, the Nevado del Quindío, Moon Valley, the Laguna del Otún and Laguna Verde, among other sites interest.In recent years, these glaciers have been hard hit by the effects of global warming in 2007 the Ingeominas, warned of the alleged melting of polar ice from the glaciers of this national park.As proof of this was the disappearance of the Cathedrals of Ice which was a huge cave at the bottom of the ice cap of Nevado del Ruiz, which existed even before 1995 and they used to be frequented by climbers and tourists.

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