Hacienda Venecia
Hacienda Venecia offers you a rest among coffee plantations and a great amount of activities to live the best experience in the Colombian coffee region.
You will find us located in a rural area, between Salento and Medellín, 20 minutes (10.5 km) from the center of the city of Manizales, near the Autopista del Café, towards Pereira. Manizales has a population of approximately 450,000 inhabitants and is located in the Central Andean Cordillera, near Los Nevados National Park. The area was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO due to its unique Coffee Cultural Landscape.
Hacienda Venencia Roasted Coffee
Our “Hacienda Venecia Origin Coffee” is cultivated in the heart of the Colombian Coffee Zone, where the best practices of cultivation, harvesting, processing, drying, milling, roasting and grinding are combined to obtain an excellent mild Arabica coffee. We do our best to produce a high quality coffee with all tastes, you will feel the love that local farmers have invested in every drop.
We roast and commercialize Finca Hacienda Venecia Origin Coffee, 100% Colombian – catalogued as one of the best in the world, we conjugate the tradition and magic of coffee, with the best production and roasting practices exalting the characteristics of an excellent Colombian Arabica coffee.
In our store you will be able to find Café Hacienda Venecia, as well as elements for the preparation of coffee.
Activities at the Hacienda
Enjoy the coffee experience with activities at the farm, enjoy our Coffee Tour, touring the coffee plantations and learning about the preparation process; the Artisan Chocolate Workshop, where you will learn where the fruit comes from and you can see the fresh fruit of the cocoa tree and much more.
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Stay with us
At Hacienda Venecia you can choose to stay in the Main House, a place full of family tradition, in Coffee Lodge, a more modern accommodation within the beautiful landscape of coffee plantations, the cozy Hostal or our Overlanders Site.
Social and Environmental Responsibility
We care about our planet and our mother nature and do everything possible to minimize any negative impact on the ecosystem generated in the development of tourism activities. We also respect and highlight the work of coffee producers and others involved in the coffee and tourism industries in Colombia.
Through all our actions, we want to encourage guests, visitors, employees, neighbors, children, clients and suppliers to preserve the natural and cultural environment in which Hacienda Venecia is located.
We generate employment and provide opportunities for the participation of local actors and neighbors in the services provided by Hacienda Venecia, with the objective of increasing the quality of the services. All the eggs we serve to our guests come from two of Hacienda Venecia's field collaborators' houses (Filo and Cataluña). We have encouraged them to keep chickens for this purpose.
Education
One of our current projects, close to our hearts, is the support of our local elementary school located a few meters from Hacienda Venecia. We invite biology students from the University of Caldas to teach the school children how to observe birds and talk about conservation. We offer them binoculars as a gift, so they can connect with nature and inspire older generations to take care of our environment. The class also promotes the children's interest in perhaps one day becoming birding guides.
Apiculture of the Angelitas
Another project we promote is the apiculture of the Colombian 'Angelitas' (little angels), which are stingless bees that can be found in most tropical or subtropical regions of South America. With 12 different beehives located on the Hacienda Venecia property, we strive to preserve the bees by providing them with a place to live and positively impacting the health of our local ecosystem. Bees also play an important role when it comes to self-pollinating coffee plants, acting as a type of pollination booster. Their work means that coffee plants produce 20-25% more fruit.