Santa Fe de Antioquia, founded on 4 December 1541 as Antioquia, is often regarded as one of Colombia’s best-preserved colonial towns—less a staged monument than a place where the past still sets the tempo. Its streets follow a cobbled grid of whitewashed facades with ochre baseboards, wooden balconies, and celosías (wooden lattice windows) that temper heat and light into shaded patios. Once the capital of Antioquia, it retains a quiet civic gravity, shaped by stone-fronted churches and old manor houses.