Monument to the RaceRodrigo Arenas Betancur

Rising 38 m between the austere facades of Medellin’s government buildings, this 1988 bronze-and-concrete monument weaves intertwined figures into a dense narrative of conquest, birth, religion, and death in Antioquia’s past. It serves both as a civic landmark and as the artist’s burial site, grounding the plaza as a place of collective memory.