Towards the east and the south, they appear the deserts and the perpetual snows of the National Park the Snowed ones. To the being the capital, Manizales is a road axis of particular importance. At present constructions are carried out important of enmeshes road, lifted avenues, bridges, commercial centers and supermarkets that will give to major dynamism to this city. There are manifolds routes of bus, busetas and groups that allow to move to any district of the city with routes that take more up to one hour for the moved away points like the Pretty one in the western end and Maltera in the Eastern one. Manizales is located in center of the three main cities of Colombia, in the call Gold Triangle. The distance between Manizales and Bogota is of 290 km Between Manizales and Medelln there are 180 km and between Manizales and Cali there are 384 km Also is communicated with the neighboring capitals of Pereira and Armenia through the Freeway of the Coffee. Manizales counts on a national airport called Airport of the Nubia.
This airport counts on a track of approximately 1,400 meters and serves its 6 of 6 a.m. to p.m. Due to the changing conditions of the climate, often is closed by low visibility; therefore at the moment a new airport is being constructed destined to receive national flights as as much international. Also had to the climatologic conditions the use of the moving body he is complicated since the difficulty to be able to call or to send messages is high, for that reason also new more powerful antennas are being constructed. Manizales is a cultural and especially diverse city in this sense.
Several libraries exist between which are those that belongs to the different universities. As far as museums they stand out: the Museum of Gold of the Bank of the Republic, in which diverse pre-Columbian pieces are exposed; The Museum of Natural History (University of Calda); the Museum of Art (University of Calda); the Archaeological Museum (University of Calda), the Botanical Garden (University of Calda), the Museum of Natural History (University of Calda) and the Museum of Science and the Game (National University of Colombia). Also exhibition halls exist, between which they stand out: the Pinacoteca de Bellas Arts; the Bank of the Republic; Coffee Cultural bottom; the Museum of Art of Calda; Confamiliares; Institute Caldense de Cultura and Expoferias. The architecture of Manizales Integra the influences of different times, creating a very particular style, not only in its formal expression, but also, in the use of local materials like guadua and the wood, that adjust to the difficult topography and seismicity of the region. As a result of this, also the call is born republican architecture (name that takes the neoclassic forms from the national architecture). In its architecture the Cathedral stands out Basilica, done in iron and concrete, leaving the tradition of its time of Wood churches. The Cathedral Basilica is of neogothic style in its outer part and has marks of vault style (nose). This cathedral is under the invocation of Our Lady of the Rosary.