Charming Cartegena

Cartagena is in the northeastern part of Columbia on the Caribbean coast . The city was founded in 2533 and served as a key port for the export of Bolivian silver and import of enslaved African people. Though it’s a city of about a million people, the historic center, where we’re staying, is very colonial in architecture and has only a minimum number of cars. The Spanish built a defensive wall around Cartegena, a World Heritage site, between 1614 and 1796. The original walls and fort are still intact. Tourism is essential to Cartegena’s economy.
We enjoyed seeing an Augustinian monastery and the old fort that protected the city from pirates and the navies of other countries.Read more