{"id":9481,"date":"2013-08-13T11:55:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T16:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/?p=9481"},"modified":"2016-05-04T16:38:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T21:38:42","slug":"travel-to-manizales-the-other-paisa-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2013\/08\/travel-to-manizales-the-other-paisa-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel to Manizales: The Other Paisa City."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I know that it gets bandied around a fair bit here in Colombia, but I\u00b4m still a bit confused. <em>Paisa\u00a0<\/em>is quite the loaded term. I\u00b4ve heard a wild story that claims it originated when the bold Antioque\u00f1os were pushing for\u00a0their department\u00b4s independence. The new country (\u00a8pais\u00a8 in Spanish) was going to be called \u00a8Country A,\u00a8 (Pa\u00eds A). It sounds a little far-fetched, but I wouldn\u00b4t put it past those famously individual and proud people.\u00a0Now, people from the capital of Antioquia, Medell\u00edn, are referred to as <em>paisas,\u00a0<\/em>and, in general, if someone was referred to as such, I\u00b4d race to the conclusion that they\u00b4re from the City of Eternal Spring.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u00b4s not race so fast, though. Other places manifest this culture, and the good folk of Manizales would rightly feel put out if I didn\u00b4t recognise their paisa bragging rights. Manizales, after all, is known as the City of Open Doors. This doesn\u00b4t refer to an endemic problem with latch construction in the area, but to the friendliness of its inhabitants. Friendliness, along with industriousness, pride, and mullets, is a widely professed quality of paisaness.<\/p>\n<p>And, indeed, it was a proud, roving, band of twenty paisas who founded the city in its \u00a8abrupt topology\u00a8 in 1847. This makes Manizales a relatively young city, but doesn\u00b4t stop the resident paisas from being any less as proud as their fancy\u00a0Medell\u00edn\u00a0cousins. Manizales, right in the heart of Colombia, is also right at the heart of Colombian coffee production, and there\u00b4s no better base from which to explore all the aromatic cultural charms of the surrounding coffee farms; there\u00b4s even a \u00a8Coffee Theme Park\u00a8 in the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9483\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2013\/08\/travel-to-manizales-the-other-paisa-city\/sony-dsc-27\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9483\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9483\" src=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1283561571manizales.jpg\" alt=\"The other M word. \" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1283561571manizales.jpg 640w, https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1283561571manizales-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The other M word.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Manizales\u00b4 \u00a8abrupt\u00a8 topology, with its dramatic dips and dives, affords some pretty special experiences. It\u00b4s not the biggest of Colombian cities, but I\u00b4d challenge any city around the world to match the EIGHT (count \u00b4em) microclimates within its limits. One minute you could be enjoying the stickiness of one of Colombia\u00b4s best <a href=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2013\/06\/another-colombian-food-top-5-colombias-best-regions\/\" target=\"_blank\">obleas <\/a>in the ethereal heights of Chipre, the next, plunging into a balmier valley. Check out the views from the cable-car (something else Manizales shares with that other M city), that stretches from the bus terminal to the bar district, inhabited by a good proportion of the 15,000 university students that have made Manizales theirs.<\/p>\n<p>Further out, topology even more abruptly impressive looms majestically. The Nevado del Ruiz, with its stately snowcapped mountains, peers down on the city; and it\u00b4s often possible to venture up there, to touch the snow for yourself. Coffee farms and snow? They don\u00b4t really seem to go together, do they? You forgot, my friend: This is Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>Manizales, resolutely paisa, is also the city where you can trace the Spanish strand of Colombia\u00b4s rich cultural fabric most easily; particularly in its <a href=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2012\/01\/guest-post-partying-at-the-ferias-de-cali-and-manizales\/\" target=\"_blank\">fair <\/a>at the start of the year. This fair, along with such important activities like the \u00a8International Coffee Beauty Pageant,\u00a8 also heralds the start of the bullfighting season. Others, including, admittedly, myself, don\u00b4t really get this phenomenon, but it is a great source of pride for the people of the City of Open Doors, who regard it as an important part of their cultural inheritance.<\/p>\n<p>It might not have all the innovative bling of Medell\u00edn, the paisa capital, but Manizales, and the warm hearts of its people, are definitely worth a trip off the gringo trail. Get amongst it, and be a paisa for a day!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Now, I know that it gets bandied around a fair bit here in Colombia, but I\u00b4m still a bit confused. Paisa\u00a0is quite the loaded term. I\u00b4ve heard a wild story that claims it originated when the bold Antioque\u00f1os were pushing for\u00a0their department\u00b4s independence. 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