Slow Travel Through Colombia’s Heritage Towns: Mompox, Monguí and Villa de Leyva

Slow Travel Through Colombia’s Heritage Towns: Mompox, Monguí and Villa de Leyva

From Holy Week rituals to colonial plazas and artisan traditions, these three towns reveal Colombia at its most atmospheric, and best experienced slowly. Colombia’s heritage towns or Pueblos Patrimonio, are not places I wanted to rush through. I wanted to walk them, sit with them, and let their details unfold at a gentler pace. Mompox, Monguí, and Villa de Leyva, history is not something preserved in a museum...