¿What to do in Matagalpa?
Matagalpa offers many different activities base on an alternative tourism. Green and beautiful mountains, nature reserve, humid and tropical forrest, rivers and waterfalls, petroglifos, a variety of flora and fauna, coffee and cocoa production, rural communities, handicraft and indigenous tejidos.
In the city you can visit museums, markets, parks, handicraft shops, historical buildings, coffee mills and also see beautiful views of the city its surroundings from the top of many hills.
In the city we recommend visiting:
The Municipal Cemetery and the Cemetery of the Foreigners
Mirador de la ciudad Cerro San Martín
Visita al Parque de los Monos
Museums: Carlos Fonseca´house
Coffee Museum
Monument San Pedro Cathedral of Matagalpa
Walking tour: prolacsa-Hotel Barcelona
Business street
Bank avenue
Walking tour Popular Markets: South market, Guanuca Market
National autonomous university of Nicaragua
Tradicional black pottery of the zone
Ceramic of women in El Jicaro
Coffee Mills (SOLCAFE)
Chocolate factory: Cocoa castle
In Matagalpa you will have the chance to:
Do social voluteering
Do exchange of languages
Take dance classes
Go to the gym / aerobic
Outdoor activities:
Here you will have the chance to do rural communitary tourism, visiting the campesinos, local farmers where you will learn about fair trade and coffee process. Keep in touch with people and get to know the way our people live in the rural zones of the city.
The coffee route
Farm La Canavalia
Rural Community La Reyna
Rural Community La pita
Rural Community La Corona
And if you want to do an adventure tourism and go bathing:
Old Mines La reina-San Ramon
Waterfall Santa Emilia
Waterfall La chale
Waterfall Santa Emilia
Waterfall Escondido
In Matagalpa hiking tours, trekking and mountain cycling through its nature reserves is an exellent option of adventure and be in touch with nature:
Rainforest crags of Peñas Blancas
Nature reserve El Arenal and the mountain hotel Black forest
Nature reserve Cerro Apante
Ecolodge la Sombra
Farm Green Hope
Get to know about the production of indigenous weaves, characteristic and customs of our indegenous, it is an option of cultural and communitary tourism:
Indigenous community El Chile
The group of weavers “Entre hilos” in Molino Norte
From Matagalpa you can visit the nearby cities:
Jinotega Route
San Rafael del Norte (Sandino Museum)
Petroglifos and Chaguitillo museum
Night life:
You can relax yourself in many different places according to your tastes:
Cultural Centre Media Luna: a cultural alternative centre with cultural activities every Saturday and video-forum every Friday.
Coffee Bar Artesanos
Madre Tierra: Cultural Activities programmed
Restaurant La Vida es Bella
La Casona: it is a restaurant and there´s live music every Thursday and friday
Vy-Pay Bar and restaurant
Casa Grande restaurant
Pescamar (seafood speciality)
Piques y Azteca de Oro, mexican food
Mana del cielo, El Oasis and Bufet de los Angeles, popular buffe with a wide variety of plates
White House Pizza, restaurante La Vida es Bella, Pizza Venecia.
Bar Crazy Horse
The most popular discos are:
El Rancho Escondido,
Rincón Paraíso,
La Posada,
El Imperio
Tequilas Bar and Grill