Feria De Las Flores

What is the Festival of Flowers?

In August, when Medellín – known as the “city of eternal spring” – blooms in all its splendor and balconies, terraces, gardens, and billboards get flooded with flowers, it is the beginning of the famous fair.

This feast of flowers takes place in early August and lasts ten days. It offers visitors and residents over 140 cultural, traditional, and modern events, the following among them: a horse fair, an orchestra festival, the national trova festival (singers in duels of improvised verses), an old and classic cars parade, a dog walk, musical and cultural platforms, the festival of remembrance and folk songs, a contest of talented women, the chiva carnival (a chiva is the typical open-sided bus built on a truck chassis), and the national championship of noise on wheels.

The flower fair is one of the cultural episodes in Colombia with a high degree of reaffirmation of identity and an event that brings together antioqueños and thousands of visitors in search of flowers, enjoyment, music, and fun.

Origins of the Flower FairMedellín, a place with no seasons that turns August into spring.

The first flower fair was held on May 1, 1957, and lasted five days. Activities included dancing in stalls located throughout the city for the people to have fun.

In search of novelty and a way to lure paisanito participation, Arturo Uribe, an illustrious Antioquenean, proposed the silleteros parade. On that occasion, he invited silleteros from the nearby district of Santa Elena who had devoted themselves to flower production for generations.

The invitation was accepted by forty silleteros, and the spectators, attracted by the beauty and color of the flowers, fell in love with the parade.

The Flower fair is one of the most awaited moments by all citizens. The joy, the feast, the culture, the flowers, and the tourists take over the streets and parks of Medellín. The transformation of the city is our main tourist attraction.