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Culture Paisa
This section is dedicated to learning more about our culture and get to know these characters from history and landscapes that are stressed out because there is still generate progress and culture in our land.
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Biographies of some countries represent
I'm Antioquia. Viewed from espadrilles, Carriel of the coastal otter and Rouen. I got to the serenades and love for my rivals Barber. No bambuco my guitar away, and at night of celebration and liquor, just respect what the Pope says and Tute up at the same president. I look with disdain life profound, and I am so young the world, I am going to stand up for Guarne to Japan.
The Carriel It is the symbol of the basic paisa. No one knows with certainty when it is used, but it is known that Carriel a century ago were characterized by having only two or three pockets. It is believed that a modern and practical Carriel has no more than nine pockets, counting the secrets that are hidden between the linings.
The Carriel that were used at first, were usually only two or three pockets, they were increasing over time until reaching limits of eighteen pockets.
Carriel a modern, has no more than nine pockets, counting the three secret or hidden pockets between the linings.
The Carriel is used by the mule drivers, farmers and villagers throughout Antioquia: same in the lands in hot cool it. Each one carries in the Carriel utensils that he deems necessary for everyday life, either by genuine need, or by omen.Therefore, they are not the same things in the Carriel of sawing, which in the guaquero, or the same utensils are in or the guarniel Carriel of the farmer's mule in that. The more things that load on the Carriel, by the very nature of their profession, is the mule. Carriel In a mule, according to popular tradition, there must be fifty objects, some of whom are:
Money Bills and sometimes even big cities that they were confident the traders of stocks, to be delivered to wholesalers in the capital, on payment of large consignments of goods.
A Barber: The mule, after two, three, or ten days of arduous travel, used to stop at any creek at the edge of the road for grooming, hair and shaving, because it was not the sight presented to merchants disengaged from the square .A comb : Comb small, and a mirror with a lid. The lid was to protect the mirror, without it broke quickly in the struggle of the way.
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A light: Usually made of fabric, folding, to illuminate the road when they picked up the night, and to illuminate the awning.
A candle bait: To illuminate the light.
A candle-Save: For the candle is not fail and crush inside the Carriel dirtying everything that was inside it, the mule was on his Save-sailing, which was a small tin box, as a kind of fountain pen Large, where he kept the candle tallow.
A pair of dice: For your entertainment.
The Spanish card: To play Tute while the Frisolaan or as I sleep.
Letters: The Correspondence of your partner usually.
A tuft of hair of the bride: Tied with a pink ribbon to remember and perfumed. Both the love letter as the lock of hair, were, of course, hidden in secret.
Milk Watermelon: Wrapped in a piece of wicker corn, which had to keep pa cure dust on the hulls of the beasts, and inflammations and pa stopper in the worms' güeisis. "
A cord: coiled, as if a burden was broken in the way.
Ídem. A piece of cabuya (type of cord): Ditto.
One or two amulets: They were the most common: The nail of the Great Beast. The Cola's Gurr, a good omen, and heating in a candle, used to remove the earache ... or to burn it.
Snuff for the trip.
Chamizo of the cooker or the candle's bluff: To turn on tobacco. Errand to remove candle:
A stone castle, a "deslabón" and tinder.
The image of Virgen del Carmen, or a small crucifix.
A memo pad and pencil.
A cock of chub, to signal to colleagues.
The most famous Carriel or guarnieles have traditionally been the Jericoanos, the Envigadeños and Amalfi.
The Carriel is the same bag of pastoral Europe, the bag of feudal lords or Backpack indigenous, that evolved to meet the needs of farmers, traders and mule paisa in the region of Colombia, making it more robust to withstand heavy use daily.
The first Carriel of Antioquia were fabric or leather and fabric, embroidery and wore the name of the owner in the fold.
The ruana is another symbol of the country. It is the shelter of the peasants who inhabit the land of cold and temperate of the department. The men of "hot earth" prefer the poncho.The ruana is made of wool and is usually of dark colors.
Machete the attire that peasant subject on the left side of his waist. It involves a leather sheath, usually brown.
The peinilla It is a variety of machete (paisa blade) thinner.
Espadrilles It is a fact cabuya twisted shoe uppers and cotton.
The hat is usually white with black ribbon.
The culture paisa
"They say many critics and scholars of literature who read Thomas Carrasquilla is like to venture into the corner of pure Castile," says Marta Elena Bravo. The commentary says in the speech, in the habits of Antioquia to speak, to talk.
"If we have something of what is Spanish and what dicharacheros conversationalists," said Bravo. But not only that symbiosis is evident in the ways of behaving. "Spain is a very religious people, as we are the paisas," the historian.
Thus was born a new culture with an idiosyncrasy similar to the Spanish, but quite different.
According to Marta Elena Bravo, also owe it to the Spanish sense of humor, mischievousness, exaggerations, some things in the manner of dress, a love of oral tradition, architecture and structure of peoples and "despite our miscegenation, we are still very Spanish. "
Roberto Luis Jaramillo, for his part said that the Antioquia are not Spaniards, who have their blood while it is impossible to say how someone is Spanish. "What one must take is to look at his pedigree and from it, not decipher how one is Spanish, but how Basque, Galician how is one," he explains.
Miscegenation sums it all, countries that we are what we are through this union of black and Indian blood with Spanish, creating a new culture, a new idiosyncrasy that characterizes the people paisa, a culture which shares with Antioquia Caldas, Risaralda and Quindio . A coffee culture, the arepa, the corridor of Spirits, the Ruana and faith. Again
Biographies of some countries represent
In this section Paisasin this publishing biographies of countries which by their enterprise and perseverance are worth admiring, that is why if we do not know them the way you present, because of people like these is that the countries we are what we are.
DON PEPE SIERRA
It was the richest man in Colombia in the early twentieth century. From humble peasant and farmer in his hometown Girardota became a trader, investor, creditor and owner of a vast number of land and buildings in Cundinamarca, Valle del Cauca, Antioquia, Santander, Boyaca, Tolima and Panama. His life and work have had veneer of legend. The only certainty is that it is one of the most famous businessmen in the corporate history of Colombia.
CARLOS CORIOLANO AMADOR FERNANDEZ
"The Golden donkey"Businessman Antioquia (Medellin, 1835 - October 13, 1919). Coriolano Carlos Amador was one of the players in the history of pre-industrial enterprise Colombian bridge between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His many business, the product of his visionary and entrepreneurial spirit, he became a key player in the country's economic development, but in his time, many considered it not so, as his nickname suggests: "The donkey gold." Son of Sebastian Jose Amador Lopez, wealthy businessman home Cartagena, who held the governorship of the province of Antioquia in 1851, Coriolano Amador learned about trade in the warehouses of the family, which combined with classes at the College of Antioquia. Then he studied in Jamaica and in London. He was self-taught in civil, commercial and mining, which applied with skill.
He was a shrewd and risky. Lorenza married Uribe Lema, daughter of the wealthy and prestigious political Jose Maria Restrepo Uribe, governor and senator several times by the province of Antioquia. Delved into regional politics: he was councilor of Medellin in Antioquia and deputy representing the Liberals. At the end of the nineteenth century was considered to be the wealthiest businessman and investor in the country.
FIDEL CANO GUTIÉRREZ
Journalist Antioquia (San Pedro de Antioquia, 1854 - Medellin, 1919). Since young, Fidel Cano Gutierrez was great educator, poet, translator of French, especially Victor Hugo, a reporter and copy. He began his studies in public schools Anori, and since then showed his inclination for literature. He attended high school at the Colegio de Jesus Medellin, and then entered the University of Antioquia. He began his journalistic career in 1872 at The Palestra, literary liberal newspaper. He was named president of the municipality and fiscal circuit Rionegro, where he developed journalistic activities and wrote several literary essays. In 1874 he directed the newspaper La Idea "format. In 1879 he settled in Medellin, the same year the magazine appeared Industrial, led by Fidel Cano and Camilo Botero Guerra.
SOFIA OSPINA DE NAVARRO (1893 - 1974)
Born into one of the most respected families of the time, Sofia Ospina Navarro was the first woman in the department that was highlighted in the literature.Thanks to their keen sense of observation, written with humor and fluidity stories and features detailing the Medellín of his time.
He was also a wonderful homemaker and aware of the great food of Antioquia, which highlighted some of his books.
Among literature and the home, Dona Sofia spent much of his life to civic and social work, so it deserved the recognition citizen with the title "Woman Emblematics of Antioquia"
CARLOS EUGENIO RESTREPO RESTREPOPolitical journalist and Antioquia (Medellin, September 12, 1867, July 6, 1937), president of the Republic during the period 1910-1914.
Carlos E. Restrepo Restrepo was born shortly after the overthrow of General Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera. His parents were Pedro Antonio Restrepo, nephew of Felix Jose Restrepo, and Restrepo Cruzana Jaramillo. He had two brothers, Nicanor, a large trader, John and Mary, distinguished theologian in the service of the Holy See. Made his first studies in Itagui, the Poblado, Medellin and then studied four years at the Institute for Higher Education (Seminar today Reconcile). He began law studies, but suspended 18 years of war in 1885.
Pedro Nel Ospina Vasquez was born on September 8 1858. He died on July 1, 1927. President of the Republic in the period 1922-1926. Son of the third marriage of Mariano Ospina Rodriguez, who was president of the Confederation Granadina between 1857 and 1861, and Doña Enriqueta Vazquez Jaramillo, Pedro Nel Ospina Ignacio Tomas de Villanueva Vazquez was born in the Palacio de San Carlos, and his brothers were Tulio, Santiago, Maria, Concepcion, and Mariano Francisco
FRANCISCO ANTONIO CANO CARDONA
He was one of the greatest painters in the history of Antioquia and Colombian painter and sculptor born in Yarumal, Antioquia in 1865. His father was Artesan, puppeteer, painter, sculptor, comedian and businessman.
From a very young man devoted himself to painting and sculpture.
1883 - Cutting a bust of the Liberator that earned him a gold medal offered by the "Club of the Friends of Art." At first he earned a living from silverware and other trades as a painter of broad brush and agriculturist.
JOSE MARIA BERNAL BERNAL
One of the most representative of the business and politics in Antioquia in the mid-twentieth century. It is his remarkable work at the head of the Union Brewery and its role in the founding of the National Association of Manufacturers ANDI, Cemento Argos, Banco Industrial Colombiano BIC and Suramericana de Seguros. Jose Maria also made an active part in the political life of both the department as part of the country. He was councilman and mayor of Medellin, deputy and governor of Antioquia, Minister of Finance and Minister of War. He traveled in various stages of his life for the entire American continent, even by Europe, Asia and Africa.
JHON RESTREPO ÁLVAREZ "El mono de los Confites"
Jhon Restrepo Alvarez personifies social responsibility, ethics is required of the business. Social responsibility in the company's relations with the state, in the company's relations with the environment at the company's relations with workers, in support of the company to democracy.
Jhon Restrepo is the characterization of the citizen initiating and pushing in the construction business, the generation of employment every day, at any point in its existence has been disengaged from the fate of the Republic, less than the fate of Antioquia and the fate of Medellin. Continue reading
