San Cayetano, Aranjuez (Medellín)

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From the days in which they raised their first homes, Aranjuez was always regarded by planners as an example of order in engineering. Carrasquilla Thomas, one of the classic writers Colombians, a native of the region of Antioquia, wrote in 1919: "there is a place where discipline and sent the plane and engineering. All these new street junctions to the old, more or less resources wise. "

Until 1916, the land now occupied neighborhoods Aranjuez and Berlin were not only the name of large livestock farms, which were bowing to the progress of a growing Medellin. Its owners, including Ismael Posada, sold their land to the developer Manuel J. Alvarez, who started in 1919 and feedlot fences and began building the Berlin area in the northeastern town, a little beyond Manrique. The buyers of the project, paying part of the house with two days of work per week in the construction of other houses and the opening of the streets of the neighborhood.

Even without completing his first draft, Alvarez went to the route of the second, more ambitious, comfortable homes, designed with the best architecture: the houses of Aranjuez, which bore the name of the property on which had been built. Potential buyers were wealthier families are able to pay the new houses valued after the success of Berlin.

Flourish in this area, impressed by his organization, also influenced the arrival of a tram line to the station in Cairo in 1922. But the same problems of rapid population growth of the city, Manrique hit from the sixties. In 1951 the tram was finished and the eighties onwards, the growth is messy joined youth violence that engulfed the neighborhood prdeundos problems of coexistence.

Within Aranjuez, there are buildings that are historic and artistic heritage of the city. The first, largest and oldest, is the newly renovated building Manicomio, where today there is a box of family compensation. And the second is the Casa Museo Pedro Nel Gomez, where you can tour a collection of 1,500 paintings and a library with more than 500 volumes. The house is valued by the residents of Aranjuez as an oasis in her neighborhood, an oasis where the master lived and left a collection of paintings made in more than 60 years of work.