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The curiosities paisas that we are going to notice were not properly done in
Antioquia, but
Recent history makes it seem. Manuel María Bonis, who emigrated to Jamaica
after the battle of Boyacá, was the one who brought our department, from the
Caribbean island, nothing less than the mamoncillo, The first mandarin seeds were
brought from Europe by Don Pastor Restrepo, in 1862 they arrived to Medellín, the
first cigarettes and were bought from a Cuban surnamed Alustiza. And one
curiosity for many who today are living in Medellin, in the 13th commune to Going
up to the neighborhoods there are escalators.