This time I leave one of the most beautiful city in Latin America, I hope you like to take more about this city.
Cartagena, Colombia is a fantastic city that keeps the secrets of history in its walls and balconies, in its buildings and in its narrow stone paths.
Framed by a beautiful bay, Cartagena de Indias is one of the most beautiful and preserved cities in America.
Cartagena de Indias, one of the most popular destinations on the rise in the world according to TRIPADVISOR and as such offers many options for everyone to enjoy and here we share only some of the things we can do here.
What can we do in Cartagena?
Here we leave a list of 15 places that we can not miss in Cartagena.
Clock Tower or Boca del Puente.
Famous gateway to the Walled City, characteristic for its baroque stone front that precedes the imposing yellow structure known as The Clock Tower. It was built at the beginning of the 17th century as a point of access to the city, then rebuilt in 1704, incorporating the Baroque façade and Tuscan columns, while the tower and clock that shine today were recently annexed in 1888.
The Plaza de Los Coches
Beautiful square appreciable just by crossing the Clock Tower, surrounded by old mansions of the sixteenth century with colorful wooden balconies and charming arched portals. The square, called in this way, for having functioned as a horse-drawn carriage house, at the end of the 20th century, is today, always full of life, with numerous tourists and picturesque floats waiting for passengers. At the center of the square, stands the statue of Pedro de Heredia, founder of the city, while on its west side shines the famous Portal de los Dulces, a corridor where locals and stalls abound, offering the traditional delicacies of the Caribbean coast Colombian
Zenú Gold Museum
Located in the surroundings of Plaza Bolívar, it corresponds to one of the tourist sites of Cartagena de Indias, a must for any lover of history, a museum that stands out for its collections of gold, ceramics and bones from various pre-Columbian cultures.
Aduana's Place
Known for its elegance and the beauty of its surroundings, it corresponds to an extensive triangular-shaped esplanade, surrounded by colorful colonial buildings, among which stands out the imposing building of La Aduana, a construction of portals and delicate wooden balconies, where he resided Pedro de Heredia The center of the square is dominated by a marble sculpture of Christopher Columbus, accompanied by an indigenous woman on a pedestal, the latter decorated with reliefs of the three famous vessels of Discovery: the Pinta, the Niña and the Santamaría.
Rosario Islands
Another of the coastal areas famous for its dream beaches, formed by a set of 27 islands located opposite the Peninsula de Barú, 45 minutes from Cartagena. All these islands are part of the Coral Islands of the Rosario Natural Park, housing landscapes of wetlands, mangroves and extensive coral reefs, where an extraordinary marine biodiversity lives
Archipelago of San Bernardo
The last of the coastal areas, along with Barú and Rosario, which stand out for their idyllic beaches bordering the Caribbean Sea, made up of a set of 10 islands that are also part of the Coral Islands of the Rosario Natural Park. Within its islands, the most famous corresponds to Múcura, an idyllic landscape of warm and crystalline waters, with colors that degrade between green and blue, along with lush mangrove forests where hiking.
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