{"id":384901,"date":"2026-08-29T23:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384901\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T23:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:24:25","slug":"miami-celebrates-colombian-culture-with-medellin-flower-festival-in-wynwood-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384901\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami celebrates Colombian culture with Medellin flower festival in Wynwood &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; South Florida is celebrating Colombia and its cultural heritage for a free two-day event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Medellin\u2019s iconic Flower Festival made its international debut in Miami\u2019s Wynwood Arts District on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event aims to share the country\u2019s history with a new audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visitors enjoyed live music, art exhibitions, and traditional Colombian cuisine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAn opportunity to represent the Colombian culture and its heritage here in Miami because as we know, Miami is a melting pot with so many diverse cultures and it\u2019s just so on that, it\u2019s such an opportunity for them to come together its own right here,\u201d said Claudia Cubillos, Miami-Dade Hispanic Affairs Advisory Board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The celebration brought a beloved rural tradition outside Colombian borders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday\u2019s highlight is the \u201cSilleteros\u201d parade, which will featuring 70 artists carrying massive, handcrafted floral arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; South Florida is celebrating Colombia and its cultural heritage for a free two-day event. Medellin\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-384901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}