Escobar Tour: Explore Medellín's History

Explore Pablo Escobar’s infamous La Catedral Prison with expert guides. Uncover secrets, escape routes, and strategic insights. Book your unforgettable tour now.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Parque Memorial Inflexion - Once the Monaco Building, this was the primary residence of Pablo Escobar and his family. It now stands as a tribute to the victims of Escobar’s criminal actions and the broader drug conflict.
  • Monasterio Santa Gertrudis La Magna - Explore the private area of La Catedral, which includes Escobar’s room and soccer…
What's Included
  • Travel insurance for the tour
  • Bilingual guide (English-Spanish)
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • Visit to enabled area of La Catedral
  • 1 original copy of the book Medellín Up Close - Medellín de Cerca
What's Not Included
  • Tips (optional and voluntary)
Additional Information

This tour neither glorifies nor endorses crime, nor does it adopt the restrictive stance of conventional institutions. It aims to thoroughly explore the causes, context, and effects.
Visit locations significant to Escobar’s life, learn about key anecdotes and historical events, and gain an understanding of the narco phenomenon with objectivity and…

Location
Parque Lleras
The meeting point is in the Parque Lleras area of El Poblado, on the corner of Calle 10th and Carrera 38. ("Calle" means Street in English). You can use the following Google Maps location to get there: https://maps.app.goo.gl/2NUSwAAwhkQSmrVJA
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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151robg
Sep 16, 2025
Highly recommended - What an amazing and insightful private tour we experienced. Our guide feliciano was both knowledgeable, friendly and insightful into the fascinating and controversial figure of Pablo Escobar. He answered all our questions with great attention to detail which made it easy to understand. I can’t recommend this tour or Feliciano highly enough. Fantastic from start to finish
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555loc
Sep 7, 2025
Excellent tour - It was a very good tour, the guide told us everything we wanted to know and could answer every question. Would recommend it to everybody
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Vacation21055170501
Aug 16, 2025
Know the history of the city of the people - Beautiful tour to learn the true story of the people involved in Pablo Escobar’s life, and see the city from a different perspective
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Craig3006
Aug 4, 2025
Totally worth going! - Feliciano (and the driver) were such pleasant and informative guides. I had a great time visiting and learning about the prison, loved hearing the stories Feliciano relayed. Even though only part of the complex is available to visit, it’s enough to understand about what went on all those years ago. Highly recommend!
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Gauravsm6301zq
Aug 3, 2025
Mind blowing - Amazing experience, full of knowledge!! Good job !! Oscar did an amazing job and he know what he’s doing and pretty sure about the history
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Marcelpfisterer
Jul 27, 2025
Super informative and very good guid made us feel comfortable - Our guide “ Feliciano ” was well informed and told us the story around Pablo in an open dialogue that was very pleasant you could ask all the time and it was a friendly atmosphere. Would book the tour again 🥰
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U2726rlvladimirm
Jul 26, 2025
Excellent experience - I really liked the coffee tour. Thanks to feliciano and all the medellin team up close tours, very gentle. We also took the guided tour of the prison, Pablo Escobar Cathedral, where we learned a lot about the history of Colombia, in a very independent and balanced way. They always answered all our questions with very well-founded arguments.
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S8671oefabienm
Jul 3, 2025
Thrilling story of Escobar, knowledgeable guide - We wanted to take this tour only to be aware of what locals know and think about Escobar. It was thrilling and very informative at the time.
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Departure34138956913
Jun 20, 2025
Impressive and accurate - I always wondered about pablo escobars fortune/wealth and the spots where he did a lot of things that we knew about through the news, it is incredible how many events were prepared from these mountains with amazing views and foggy forest, i recommend taking this trip to be aware of the bad and the good of the character of Escobar.
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From $60
up to 10 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).