A mission town founded in 1621 as San Pedro y San Pablo, its Guzmán period expansion was in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. It was laid out by Pedro Gutiérrez de Lugo and Gabriel de Mendoza. The historic center of Antímano has two areas: the old native village, located on the hill, with a semi-regular layout and modest houses clustered around the Grotto of Lourdes; and the urban expansion located on the plain between the Guaire river and the hill, which was partially built during the Guzmán period, for a change of air, and has straight roads along the Calle Real, with the nineteenth century church Nuestra Señora del Rosario to the east, the Plaza Bolívar in the center, and Guzmán Blanco’s country home to the west, which was declared an architectural heritage. The train station and tree-lined boulevard, now called Calle La Estacion, are also from the Guzmán period. Antímano or «little Versailles», which it no longer is, is currently the center of many barrios of the parish. Lately, efforts have been made to recover the public space by building a small tree-lined boulevard between Plaza Bolívar and the church located at the other end, in front of which is a large sculpture of Christ in artificial stone, by an anonymous author.