for new opportunities around the mine golds. They founded a town at the Riachón River Valley that was concluded in 1843. The first settlers changed the name many times: Riachón, Santa Bárbara, Cueva Santa and Nueva Población. Bishop Juan de la Cruz Gómez Plata made a visit to Italy and he got in love with the Italian town of Amalfi of Salerno. Although it was a town at the side of the Tyrrhenian Sea, very different from the mountain town on the Antioquia's Andes, Bishop Gómez Plata thought that the blue skies of the Italian town resembled that of the Antioquean one. For this reason he decided to give that Italian name to the new settlement of gold miners to be called Amalfi-Antioquia. A Swedish migrant into the region, engineer and geographer, Carlos Segismundo de Greiff (1793-1870), made his contribution with the design of the streets of the new town with professor Antonio Aguilar, a master plan that is preserved and admired for its symmetric distribution on the Riachón Valley. This Swedish Greiff is the first ancestor in Colombia of the Greiff family that generated remarkable characters such as poet León de Greiff (1895–1976), musician and journalist Otto de Greiff (1903-1995), politician Gustavo de Greiff Restrepo (1929-), lawyer Mónica de Greiff (1956-) and historian Jorge Arias de Greiff (1922-). References Municipalities of Antioquia Department