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There is hundred of small hovels, one on top of the other, also a big escalator to get in the top or a telespherics in Medellin, Colombia. The place where we usally call the " City of Eternal Spring ", the capital of the state of Antioquia. Located in the Aburrá Valley, a central region of the Andes in South America. When I move to here I had five years old, after forty years seeing so much happening, I can still feel the brave of our people. After two decades trying overcome drug trafficking we had to take step by step to became the most innovative city in the world, declared like that, in 2013, the “ City of the Year ” by the Wall Street Journal with Citibank, in partnership with the American NGO Instituto Urban Land. I will tell how was the change in our city, beganing by a demolition to build all over again, investing in secury and tecnolagy. We didn´t try to hidden our past, instead that, we made the transformation it to be our legacy. Now we have the Memory Museum of Medellin. I remember when I was young and my mom said to I could´t go outside because It was too danger. I felt angry in that day because I didn´t see my friends. Now, I walk by the same streets in the saturday morning and watch my children playing in a park. Our city is the only one in Colombia to have a metro system connected with electric trams and telespherics to make the system accessible to all, including those who live in shanty towns. Although the mostly increrable thing is it in the neighborhood of the Las Independencias, for residents of Comuna 13, they have their own escalator that is divided into six parts and covers 384 meters. If you are worry about where have fun, we have the solution to all kind ages here, all in El Poblado. For the young peoples, in the night, there is our pubs with salsa dance and for those, let´s said, the peoples in my age, there are greats coffees place, we have one of the best of the world, also there are our restaurants with the culinary of our culture. About have fun in family there is our Parke Explora is a science and technology museum that has a planetarium and the largest freshwater aquarium in South America. There is more, next of the Explora you can found the Park de los Deseos, in this place you can bathe or enjoy the acoustic spaces. Also there is the Botanical Garden where It has a part called Orquideorama, a huge space for all different types of orchids. Beside that parks there is the Arvi, is a natural and archaeological reserve that covers a large extension of the cities of Medellin, Envigado, Bello and Copacabana. The view from the top is absolut incredible, you can see all our city. Each one had the ability to do a little so that little would become a lot. We didn't know what to expect, but we still leap into the unknown.