Descriptive Essay

Armenia

The coffee city of Colombia, Armenia is located in the center of the country, where people are nice and polite special with tourist. You can visit places like panaca, which is the best natural park in the area, it has many animals and attractions. It has the best weather an extraordinary land, it’s air smells of nature, smells of coffee, all the people who look its wonderful coffee, crops need one more minute to appreciate this beautiful place again.

First that all when we write about Armenia we have to know its history, the places that it has and the big works in this city, today we can admire three bigger works the one is situated in the east of the city its called “Diálogos de pensamiento” They are figures of men and women pre-Columbian giving the welcome and the farewell to the people, but in the same time they have something of cosmic, as the third eye and a deep relation with the love. The second is “La alegoria del agua” and it´s situated in Bolivar avenue, in this work is drawn some mountains, a human figure that represents the mountain’s god, an Indian that keep water in a leaf of banana, a farmer who realize the same action but in a trunk with an axe, symbols of the city surrounded by the modern aqueduct. The last work is situated in Ancizar Lopez Lopez Avenue and it is a representative of Armenia, where appear two pre-Columbian figures, the church of the city and many pre-Colombian things.

Now that we know about some historical places in Armenia, we have to know about tourism places where people can enjoy and entertain like Panaca the national park of farming culture where the activity between the human, the nature and the domestic zoology, it’s located in Quimbaya very near of Armenia. The botanical garden and mariposario of Quindio is constructed in an old tropical forest, it contains a great diversity of native plants and the most attraction of the botanical garden is the mariposario, a place where more than 1.000 kinds of butterflies born and live. Also there are many places for enjoy and visit like Parque de la Vida, Quimbaya museum, Canopy and much more.

Finally when people have visited one part of Armenia comes the night and with it also the entertainment, there are many places for dance like Estacion Paraiso, ubicated in the glorieta Sur campestre, also Guitarra & Rumba, La calera and Maria Juana in the north Km. 2 Pereira avenue and Mint and Talon in the Km 1 and 4. They are the most important places for go to dance, drink and enjoy.

In conclusion Armenia is a city that has all, history, entertainment, tourism and the principal characteristic the coffee, I recommend it if you want to visit a important, historical and representative city of Colombia.