On the other hand, 500 miles to the southwest, there is Pasto with 380 thousand inhabitants.
Fortunately for Pasto, Narino and nearly a million visitors, Ms. Perini and her team were impressively successful.
The pace is brisk and positive, and the driving force has been Narino's governor, Pasto native, Antonio Navarro Wolff.
There's a good reason life in Pasto, Colombia appears different to a visitor from the capital, Bogota: it is.
Bureaucratic buck passing is as unpopular as arriving too late for dinner in Pasto, although both are standard fare in Bogota.
Elected Mayor of Pasto in 1995, Mr. Navarro earned a reputation for action and incorruptibility, both unusual traits among Colombian politicians.
Pasto reflects all the many faces of the country, but does so with a decidedly different attitude and a very different flair.
Pasto sent the drawings to mainstream museums, such as New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim, but was met with resistance.
ECONOMIST: The animating spirit of life in a psychiatric institution
Time to Flourish festival director, Carmen Perini unwittingly summed up the Pasto attitude, when asked how a multi-faceted, multi-national festival could be organized in 10 months.
The people of Pasto told Simon Bolivar nearly 200 years ago that they preferred to stay with Spain, thank you, and many citizens remain proud of it.
Held in Pasto and neighboring areas, the August event was the first ever cultural activity involving the entire Andean region of South America, with ethnic groups from eight countries providing an exceptional and diverse array of music, theatre, spiritualism and handicrafts.
应用推荐