Four distances across two days: the 5K on Saturday, then 10K, 21K and 42K on Sunday. The 42K starts at Parque de las Luces on Avenida San Juan, the 21K at Avenida Carabobo and the 10K at Parques del Río, with every distance finishing at the EPM building in Parque de los Pies Descalzos. Expect road closures across the centre and the river corridor on Sunday morning — if you are driving out of Laureles that day, leave early or wait until the afternoon.
The city's book festival turns twenty, running ten days at the Botanical Garden and across the northern zone. Free to enter, heavily programmed, and one of the few Medellín events that is genuinely as good on a weekday morning as on a Saturday. From Laureles it is a straight run on the B line to Universidad.
Specialty coffee with a real brunch menu behind it — skillet eggs, tomato and burrata toast, granola bowls — and house blends named PAZ and PUNK. The board on the wall tracks the CO₂ their coffee programme has pulled back out of the air: 2,571 tonnes since September 2024, through biochar work in Huila and Tolima. Diagonal 75 #39CB-20, open from 7am.
Libertario Coffee Roasters — Diagonal 75, specialty coffee and brunch
The guide now lists 40 places across food, coffee, nightlife, parks, shopping and barbers
For neighbourhood businesses
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