Marinilla is a city located in the East subregion of the department of Antioquia, Colombia. Bordered to the north by the municipalities of San Vicente and El Peñol, on the east by the municipalities of El Peñol and El Santuario, to the south by the municipalities Santuario and Carmen de Viboral, and to the west by the municipalities Carmen de Viboral and Rionegro. It is 47 kilometers from Medellín.

Get in

By bus from Medellín (1 hour) or from Bogota (8-12 hours).

See

• Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
• Capilla de Jesús de Nazareno
• Capilla de Belén
• Seminario nuestra Señora
• Seminario del Monasterio de la Visitación
• Templo de María Auxiliadora
• Templo del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús
• El Museo Histórico y Arqueológico
• Casa de la Cultura José Duque Gómez.
• La Plazoleta de los Mártires
• Parque Carolina Gómez
• Monumento a la Batalla del Cascajo.

Buy

There are traditional places where guitars are manufactured as well as tiples, endemic stringed instruments.

Eat

A wide variety of crops are farmed here. Potatoes, cassava, maize and vegetables are part of the economy of this village, apart from trade, industry and tourism.