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Municipality and city in Antioquia Department, Colombia

Itagüí

Itagüí is a city and municipality of Colombia, located in the south of the Aburrá Valley in the Antioquia Department.

Itagüí
Itagüí · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Itagüí is a city and municipality of Colombia, located in the south of the Aburrá Valley in the Antioquia Department. It is part of the Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Itagüí

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Pontifical Bolivarian University

    The Pontifical Bolivarian University, also referred to as UPB, is a private university in Colombia with its main campus in Medellín, where it was founded in 1936. As of 2023, the university is ranked among the top four universities in Colombia and among the top 30 universities in Latin America by QS World University Rankings.

    8.9 km · Private university in Colombia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Medellín Museum of Modern Art

    The Museum of Modern Art of Medellín is a museum of modern art in the Colombian city of Medellín. It was founded in 1978.

    7.9 km · museum in Medellín · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Medellín Metropolitan Theatre

    The José Gutiérrez Gómez Medellín Metropolitan Theatre is the most important and biggest theater in the city of Medellín, Colombia.

    9.5 km · theatre in Medellín, Colombia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Cerro Nutibara

    Nutibara Hill is a rocky hill formation located in the Colombian city of Medellín, in the geographic center of the Aburrá Valley and on the west bank of the Medellín River. It is one of the few ecosystems that is conserved in Medellín and is considered one of the city's seven "guardian" hills.

    8.8 km · hill in Colombia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Estadio Metropolitano Ciudad de Itagüí

    Estadio Metropolitano Ciudad de Itagüí is a multi-use stadium in Itagüí, Colombia. It is currently used mostly for football matches by Itagüí Leones F.C., currently playing in Categoría Primera B. The stadium has a capacity of 12,000 spectators.

    1.2 km · multi-use stadium in Itagüí, Colombia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Estadio Polideportivo Sur

    Estadio Polideportivo Sur is a multi-purpose stadium in Envigado, Colombia that is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium has a capacity of 11,000 people and was built in 1992.

    1.9 km · multi-purpose stadium in Envigado, Colombia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Museo El Castillo

    El Castillo Museum is a Colombian museum in the El Poblado district of Medellín. It offers permanent exhibitions of objects in porcelain and glass, stained glass, antiques, paintings, and sculptures, among other things.

    5.8 km · museum in El Poblado, Medellín, Colombia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Barefoot Park

    Barefoot Park is a zen-inspired public park in Medellín, Colombia. The park was funded by EPM and designed by architect Felipe Uribe de Bedout.

    9.7 km · park in Medellín, Colombia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Nutibara Sculpture Park

    Sculpture Park is a sculpture garden at the foot of Nutibara Hill in Medellín, Colombia and the first of its kind in the country. The park contains 10 modern and abstract sculptures by famous Colombian and international artists such as Edgar Negret, Otto Herbert Hajek, and Sergio de Camargo.

    8.7 km · sculpture garden in Medellín, Colombia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    EAFIT University

    EAFIT University is a private Colombian university located in Medellín offering 23 undergraduate programs, 70 specializations, 34 masters, and six doctoral programs. The university offers degrees in various disciplines through its schools of Management, Engineering, Law, Finance and Economics, Science, and Humanities.

    5.6 km · private Colombian university located in Medellín · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Itagüí

Airports
Jose Maria Córdova (MDE), 21 km · El Dorado (BOG), 230 km
Stations
Medellín-E. Olaya Herrera, 6.6 km · Itagüí station, 1.2 km
  • Bogota → Itagüí
    243 km · quickest by road, 8h 29m · COL$70,100–93,450
  • Cali → Itagüí
    323 km · quickest by air, 5h 4m · COL$262,950–408,030
  • Cartagena → Itagüí
    469 km · quickest by air, 4h 32m · COL$264,470–410,240
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Itagüí

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Itagüí. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAirlines: Aexpa, Avianca, EasyFly Satena, and charter flights from Searca.
  • Get aroundTraveling through the city is easy and quick, with the two line Metro system, The Metroplús (bus rapid transit (BRT) extension to the Metro), Tranvía (Tram system) and the six-line Metrocable, a sky train or cable car that has revolutionized transport in the city.
  • Get aroundTake a day trip to Santa Fe de Antioquia, Santa Helena, El Peñol or Llano Grande in Rionegro.
  • Get aroundDriving from Medellín allows for spectacular views as you climb up and out of the city into the surrounding mountains that lead to your day trip destination.
  • Go nextDay tours from Medellín are also available with optional activities to choose from such as cave trekking, white water scenic rafting, kayaking and canopy adventures to name a few.

From Wikivoyage: Medellín, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    334 km
  2. 02
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    1,249 km
  3. 03
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    1,729 km
  4. 04
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,811 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,852 km

If you know how people move in Itagüí – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Itagüí

Itagüí is 10 km from Medellín, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • EnvigadoColombian municipality of the department of Antioquia4.1 km
  • SabanetaColombian municipality of the department of Antioquia1.8 km
  • CaldasColombian municipality of the department of Antioquia8.9 km
  • La Estrellamunicipality of the department of Antioquia, Colombia3 km
  • Coliseo Cubierto de Itagüícoliseum in Itagüí city, Colombia1.3 km