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Published: November 21st 2012
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Marinilla, Antioquia As I told you in a past entry, Marinilla was not a first choice from the very beginning but I am glad I finally came as I liked walking and admiring some of the houses that are very colourful. I liked eating breakfast at a nice bakery where I had the chance to sit and relax. I also liked the cold beer in the evening that we drank while we listened to some of the Paisa
trovas.
Some facts about the village According to what I read in Wikipedia, Marinilla played an important role in the Independence from the Spanish rule as it allowed our country to have lots of its sons to fight against the Spanish, and in this, the village set an example for other nearby villages. But apparently, they were not fighting for the sake of it, although they were pioneers in revolution, they refused to help Jose Maria Cordoba to overcome Bolivar´s dreams.
What do I know about Marinilla? The village, located at only 40 minutes from Medellin,
is close to some of the touristic towns in the East of Antioquia: San Vicente, El Peñol, El Santuario and Rionegro. I also read that the municipality counts some of the most important politicians working within the Colombian government.
Not much to do in Marinilla I think the village is not that beautiful, some of its streets are too sloppy and they do not have the charm of other Antioquia´s villages. I guess after you do the tour of the village in 10 minutes, there is not much to do apart from going to the shop next door and that´s it.
We were lucky that for some reason, there was a sort of festival going on in the village and some
trovas were heard. That was the chance to have some entertainment during the evening; I suppose the festival was the reason why we had so much trouble finding accommodation; there we were, looking for a hotel and after the visit to three different ones, we found an acceptable hotel to spend the night.
A funny bartender People in Marinilla live for the weekends as the streets were crowded in the evening when I first visited: lots of music everywhere -rancheras are most popular- plenty of people drinking beer and I had my own favourite bartender, a lady who was like heaven in that small village, so friendly and funny that she responded to the name Maria, I called her that and she followed my game, and as silly as I am, I didn´t want to leave the small bar soon. J
What´s a Trova? A singing duel! Is that possible? Trova is like a kind of creative and improvised oral poetry that people from Antioquia sing depicting their daily activities, problems, and in almost all the cases, the Troveros try to defeat their contestants with their songs that must be created on the spot. But hey, not any sentences can be combined together to make the song beautiful, the secret is, they need to rhyme. Some troveros use excellent puns!
This kind of songs with easy tunes have become like a habit for
the paisas and they are quite celebrated in their regions, some of them are quite funny and believe me, they are a fine example of a shared feature of the paisas: They like exaggerating, so should we believe what they say??? I´ll leave it to you...
Here is an example of a trova found on the net:
La mujer que vive sola y en fondo de la montaña el pan se le pone duro y le salen telarañas
Me quisiste, me olvidaste, y me volviste a querer hiciste como los perros, vomitar para comer
Please don´t ask me to translate as it won´t be that funny in English. It is like Gabriel Garcia´s books in English, they lose the charm somehow.
In brief... There you have it, I suppose the reason I didn´t do that much in Marinilla was because my visit came about due to the fact that I didn´t find accommodation in Guatapé, so maybe I haven´t been fair about the village. But looking
back, iI gather the village has its own charm and maybe a second visit could´ve been worth it.
Okay, see you all soon!
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