 Shopping in Medellín is a marvelous experience. You can do it in safety and comfort while taking advantage of an incredible array of shopping and commercial venues offering quality, variety, price, and flexible hours. All this, and more, while enjoying the best and friendliest of services. The people of Antioquia, “Paisas” as they are called, have made the commercial activity an essential characteristic of their identity. Transporting goods on the back of mules, Arriería (mule driving), was, since the late 19th century, a popular system used by Paisas to expand the frontiers of their nascent activity. Later, halfway through the middle of the past century, Medellín acquired the reputation of being an excellent destination for shopping. Events, such as the transformation of the centric Junín Street into a pedestrian walkway making “Juniniar” – shopping on Junín – a fun way to buy, as well as the subsequent opening of the first shopping centers in the country, reaffirmed the city's vocation as a center for trade and commerce. Nowadays, besides being a traditional center of commerce and well-known craft fairs, Medellín boasts more than 25 shopping malls, which due to their architecture and design, are attractions in their own right. Here, shoppers have access to textiles, fashionable clothing, furniture, home appliances, leather goods, books, music, handcrafted items, jewelry, toys, and many other products. In addition the malls schedule 24-hour “Medellín awake” shopping days, special promotions and sales, and hold permanent cultural and recreational activities that make of them spaces for fun and leisure. The century-old and well-known textile tradition of Medellín has been central for holding the most important fashion, garment-sector, and textile fairs of Latin America in the city. In fashion there is ample offering. Colombian and many foreign designers offer the latest in fashion at their own boutiques in the most exclusive malls as well as in Via Primavera and Provenza located near Lleras Square in fashionable El Poblado neighborhood. Some downtown areas and the nearby city of Itagüí are also visited by shoppers, especially whole sale garment buyers, many traveling from distant places in Colombia, in search of variety, fine quality, and innovation at very reasonable prices. Commerce and trade pulsate intensely in a city where one of its major attractions is the friendliness of its people, which is why shopping in Medellín is so pleasurable an activity.   DIRECTORY OF SHOPPING CENTERS ► Automotriz Shopping Mall ► Camino Real Shopping Mall ► El Diamante Shopping Mall ► El Paso Shopping Mall ► Hollywood Shopping Mall ► Los Molinos Shopping Mall ► Monterrey Shopping Mall ► Orquídea Plaza Shopping Mall ► Oviedo Shopping Mall ► Palacio Nacional Shopping Mall ► Plazuelas de Sandiego Shopping Mall ► Premium Plaza Shopping Mall ► Puerta del Norte Shopping Mall ► Sandiego Shopping Mall ► Terminal del Sur Shopping Mall ► Vizcaya Shopping Mall ► Obelisco Shopping and Business Mall ► Palms Avenue Business Center ► Almacentro Shopping Mall ► San Fernando Plaza Shopping Mall ► La Frontera Shopping Mall ► Aves María Shopping Mall ► El Tesoro Shopping Mall ► El Unión Shopping Mall ► El Boulevard del Hueco Shopping Mall ► El Punto del Hueco Shopping Mall ► El Boulevar de Junín Shopping Mall ► El Punto de La Oriental Shopping Mall |
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