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Alto Vista chapel and its link to Aruba’s origins

According to Etnia Nativa, in prosecution passed into the black fever epidemic and pel on the same place. The house, where Antonio and
the 18th century most of the hands of Antonio Silvester’s since people believed that entire surrounding area was Bernardino Silvester would
inhabitants of Aruba were son-in-law, Miguel Álvarez, the Alto Vista area was the empty and desolated, mak- have lived. About 200 me-
indigenous who lived on who continued to guide the most infected, they began ing it hard to imagine that ters from the chapel there
the north coast, one of the parishioners in their prayers. to build their homes further Alto Vista was a town at all. is a water tank which the lo-
largest communities lived in south within the Noord area, A hundred years later, peo- cals call Tanki Cacique. In
Alto Vista. According to the book, The so the town of Noord began ple can see the remains of the past this tank was closed.
History of Alto Vista by R.H. to grow into a community around twenty houses, some But mostly water was brought
As they were very religious, Nooyen, it is not known when till getting its own Church. made of stone and others of out from the Poz di Noord, a
they had a chief with the Domingo Antonio Silvester However religious festivals clay. Nowadays, only around well dug in the sand.
name of Antonio Silvester came to Aruba from Venezu- continued to be celebrated six of these houses remain.
who guided them in the ela. The elders believe Anto- at this sacred native place, The chapel can be viewed
Christian life and it was he nio was a Spaniard. In 1780, with the custom of arriving South of the chapel in the from basically any point in
who decided to build a stone father Joseph Antonio de la in procession to Alto Vista. yard two graves can be ob- the north side, even from
chapel with a roof of corn Vegal called Bernardino Sil- served, there was the cem- Paradera and Sero Plat. All
rods, which would serve as a vester, one of Antonio’s sons Two-hundred years after the etery which father Pablo de the historical remains around
place of prayer. In 1750 it was with his wife Anna Cathalina beautiful time of Alto Vista, Algemesi blessed. It is not the chapel provide us with
blessed by Father Algamesi Tromp, “neighbors and natu- people can no longer see certain, but it is believed an idea on how the old peo-
who came from Coro-Ven- rals of the island Aruba” and much of the town of Alto that the two graves belong ple of Alto Vista used to live.
ezuela and appointed Do- thus they became natives. Vista from 1750. With a lot to Antonio Silvester and Don’t miss the opportunity to
mingo Antonio Silvester as of work they found the old Miguel Alvares, according visit a place of historical sig-
the island’s first prosecutor At the end of the eighteen foundations of the Church to Nooyen. About 50 meters nificance with a window to
in the name of the Spanish century many inhabitants the of the Queen of the Holiest near the chapel there are Aruba’s past.q
crown and Rome. In 1752 the island died as a result of the Rosary to build a new cha- still the markings of an old