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Palmira

Country:
Colombia
State:
Valle del Cauca
City:
Palmira
Type of Location:
Multiple
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Places to Visit
How to Reach

By Air

The international airport Alfonso Bonilla Aragon, that serves Cali, is located in Palmira and it is called (CLO) or Palmaseca.The airport is an important national and international hub for the Southwestern Colombia region.The international terminal is served with daily international flights to and from Houston, Miami, Quito, Madrid, Panama City and other important cities.Nine airlines provide service for the airport, including American Airlines, AeroRepublica and Avianca, Colombia's largest airline.

By Train

One of the largest transportation companies in Colombia finds its birth in the Villa de las Palmas, as is the case of Palmira Express currently has national coverage.Express also act Meadow, Coodetrans Palmira, Florida Express and different companies that carry passengers from the south of the department in central, north and south of the country such as Palmyra Express, Express Trejos, Gaviota and Bolivarian Express among others.

By Road

Palmira is reached from the north on the Panamerican Highway coming from Tulua and Guadalajara de Buga, from the south on the road coming from the department of Cauca and arrives at Candelaria, from the west via named Straight or Highway to Cali, on the east by the road Miranda, Florida and Pradera.In 1911 Jose Maria Rivera Escobar undertook the construction of the road by the Amaime canyon and the Beautiful Desert of Palmyra to connect with Chaparral and thus providing the shortest land route between South Valley and Bogota.Its construction was never completed.

Key places to visit
Church of the Holy Trinity, Bolivar Park, Phoenix Air Museum, Nirvana Natural Reserve, Estadio Deportivo Cali, House of Culture Ricardo Nieto

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Places to Visit

Church of the Holy Trinity

Its history dates back to 1822 when it was built by the priest Jose Joaquin Ledesma.Sixty years later, the pastor Rafael Aguilera began its reconstruction, and it was in 1915 the tower was completed. In addition to the image of the Blessed Trinity, adorn the interior of the church, the image of Our Lady of Fatima, brought from Portugal, and the Crucified Christ, donated by Tomas Mejia Sandoval, who brought it from Spain. His paintings and stained glass windows were designed by the Italian painter Mauricio Ramelli.

Bolivar Park

The first tasks of conditioning and cleaning the lot on which stood the park began in 1901, ordered by the prefect of the province, General Camilo Arana, the layout was designed by the engineer surveyor, Vicente Aragon Lemos and a Board of Ornato and Improvement, changed its barbed wire fence by a fence imported.In 1922 the Board of Ornato, formed by Ramon Guzman, Julio Raffo Pizarro and Tulio, hired the architect Cesar L. Chain, to build a kiosk, where the Banda Municipal running retreats of popular music.In 1928 he did the wiring, a pool was built and installed a light source.On October 12, 1947, the Lions Club Park Bolivar gave the statue of the Liberator.

Phoenix Air Museum

Phoenix Air Museum is a private non-profit organizations.It is located at the entrance No. 9 International Airport Alfonso Bonilla Aragon.The museum's facilities are home to a collection of aircraft, aircraft engines and flight suits dating from before the Second World War to the present. Account, among other things a great and growing exhibition of scale models and dioramas represented in a division which houses railroad steam locomotives that operated for the National Railways in the early twentieth century.

Nirvana Natural Reserve

A 16 miles of Palmyra, this farm a hundred acres located in the Central Andes of Valle del Cauca, near the Aguaclara River basin, is now one of the most important tourist attractions in the region. As a private entity, the complex ecological and natural at the service of educational institutions providing opportunities for the development of practical botany, ecology, biology and environmental education. Plant collections can be viewed from walkways along five miles where you can also see the forest, birds and wildlife.Two farm houses function as Estadero services.

Estadio Deportivo Cali

is a stadium in football and where it plays its matches at the local condition of Deportivo Cali, in the rural area of Palmira, Colombia in 8 km of the line interdepartmental Palmira.After reducing the capacity of the Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Melendez of 60,000 to 49,612 spectators, Deportivo Cali Stadium is the largest capacity in Colombia, hosting more than 55,000 spectators.Deportivo Cali Stadium on Wednesday released its October 29th of 2008, with a win 1-0 against the champion of the Copa Libertadores 2008, Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito.Harold Henderson's goal marked the beginning of the first stage of a private club in Colombia and was just a story in the pre-opening of the stadium of Valle del Cauca.

House of Culture Ricardo Nieto

Founded in 1969 by ordinance of the Departmental Assembly.It is the cultural center of the city. Is named in honor of the illustrious poet palmirano Ricardo Nieto.The House of Culture has a community library and offers academic programs in non-formal artistic training and extension courses in different areas.Every year, the House of Culture and the Festival International de Arte Nacional Ricardo Nieto.

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