Cartagena De Indias, Historical Patrimony, Artistic and Cultural Colombia and Humanity

Visit Cartagena is to go to Colombian history, to an architecture that evokes the colonial era in all its splendor, is transported to the times of slavery and keep an eye on the slave trade.'s Talk about a subject people for 250 years to the Spanish crown with its cruelties and its independence is to remember for life that marked the city and earned the title of Heroic City. You know that rose thriving city where beautiful alleys, houses and cloisters, its architecture took 208 years to be built, approved by the Kings of Spain to become the booty of pirates and robbers, prompting the city to encircle castles, forts and walls.

11 miles home to the Castle of San Felipe de Barajas built to repel attacks by the territory that had storage units for food and ammunition, and routes of more than 25 meters deep.

Castles such as San Sebastian de Pastelillo San battery? Angel, San Fernando and San José de Bocachica, sites required for tourists who visit, they tell their prosperous and hard times, every one of its streets, houses , its forts and churches tourist sites that contain a history of slaves, Spanish, love, war, mystery and cruelty.

Heroic City, named for its proud inhabitants who remember joyful Cartagena independence being the first province to declare itself free from Spain to win the legendary victory over the English fleet in 1741. This beautiful old citadel enclosed in walls, colonial houses, that use the color of its flowers hung in each of the balconies, small squares, Renaissance domes and clay tile roofs and thick walls of those homes today show a city full of tradition.

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