When we arrived in Santa Fe de Antioquia, we headed straight for the town's well-known hotel where we had lunch. The hotel is called Mariscal Robledo, and it has accommodated many important, international people, like the German Ambassador or an Austrian business man. Each of the hotel rooms has a different motif, and we got to peek into few.
The hotel collects and sells vintage items mostly related to movie making; cinematography and photography. Santa Fe hosts yearly an international movie festival, Festival de Cine de Santa Fe de Antioquia, with a different theme. In December, 2012, the 13th movie festival introduced North American movies from the 1970s.
Do you ever wonder what happened to Sony Discman? Lukas found it out: the grandfathers in Santa Fe are listening to them while passing time on a regular Saturday afternoon. ;)
As it turns out, also in Santa Fe a Saturday is a popular day to get married.
While admiring the church Santa Barbara and having a chat with our colleagues, teeny, tiny mosquitos where having their lunch hour on the European flesh. Minutes later, it started to rain, so we decided to wrap it up in Santa Fe and drive back to Medellin.
The tradition is that a horse and carriage brings the bride to the church. This time, they where also prepared to take the couple to celebrate.
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In the evening we went to have dinner at an Italian pasta restaurant, Il Castello, ranked 2nd best restaurant in Medellin according to TripAdvisor. And delicious it was!
The next morning, new adventures in the region of Antioquia waited for us, but more about that another time...
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