History of Aranzazu

ates that, as the first inhabitants of the province of Antioquia were persons of Spanish origin, who arrived after the conquest, lawmakers saw an opportunity to pay tribute to Spain by placing the municipality not only the name of one of your children but At the same time, the name of one of its most traditional religious sites.

According to Pedro de Anasagasti book, published in Spain in 1975 , and which is called "Aránzazu" Spanish here "enjoys a privileged topography, suggestive for its variety, beautiful for its harmonious contrast. It has the consistency of soft monotone valleys, or the orderly succession of cyclopean rocks. But ominous ravines and hollows lurid, juicy meadows and laughing valleys, steep mountains and vertiginous peaks, cliffs and forested hills ascetic, glacial waterfalls and rivulets poetic gave him a curious and fascinating mosaic ".This description of Pedro de Anasagasti on Aránzazu is, of course, very bucolic. But it gives us the opportunity to learn a little its landscape, its climate, its environment. Aránzazu is, in the Basque province, a privileged place. There stands, stunning, majestic Basilica of Our Lady of Aránzazu. Since 1493