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Food & DrinkTuesday Lunch in Torices: Where the People Who Work in the Historic Center Eat
It's ten past twelve on any given Tuesday and Calle de la Media Luna already has a line. It's not a line of tourists waiting for a rooftop: it's a line of peopl
Art & CultureThe Hidden Palenqueros of Cartagena: The African Heritage that Beats in the Courtyards of the Historic Center
Cartagena de Indias was no ordinary port. For more than two centuries, its docks received slave ships that unloaded men, women and children captured in West and
History & HeritageFrom Barracks to Hotel: The Military History of the Fortifications That Are Now Hotels and Museums
Cartagena de Indias was not built for tourism. It was built for war. Every wall that today holds a balcony covered in bougainvillea, every vault that today sell
FestivalsThe Night of the Museums in Cartagena: The Event Nobody Announces and Locals Protect (2026 Guide)
The Night of the Museums in Cartagena doesn't appear in the airport brochures or in the packages of the agencies in the Centro Amurallado. It spreads by word of
Art & CultureThe Cartagena of Patios: A Guide to Domestic Architecture and Oral Tradition in the Historic Center
The first time someone enters a house in the Historic Center of Cartagena, almost always the same thing happens: the facade is deceiving. Behind a wooden gate t
MusicCartagena Music Festival: Complete Guide to Concerts, Venues and Dates in the Walled City
The Cartagena Music Festival is the name by which the Cartagena Festival de Música is internationally known, the annual classical music event that turns the Ciu
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accommodationHotels with History: Lodgings That Were Once Convents, Prisons and Hospitals in Cartagena
Cartagena de Indias is not explored with the eyes alone. Here the walls speak, the balconies remember and the courtyards hold centuries of silence. And in that
Art & CultureCartagena in Black and White: The Photo Archive That Tells the Story of the City Tourists Don't See
There's a photo of Cartagena that gets repeated to exhaustion: the golden wall at sunset, the clock on the Torre del Reloj marking the hour, a palenquera with a
Food & DrinkFusion cuisine in Cartagena: the restaurants reinventing tradition
In Cartagena, fusion cuisine is not an imported trend: it is the logical consequence of three centuries of mixing. Here, the indigenous coastal cuisine, the Afr
accommodationStaying in Manga: the residential neighborhood where guests pay for silence, not for an ocean view (street guide and
There's a scene that repeats every afternoon on Avenida Miramar: a group of tourists with suitcases just pulled from the taxi looks at the map on their phone, t
Art & CultureThe Sound That Never Makes It to Spotify: The Route of the Picó and Neighborhood Champeta in Cartagena
There is a sound in Cartagena that doesn't appear in Spotify's curated playlists or in the speakers of the boutique hotels of the Ciudad Amurallada. It's a deep
History & HeritageAfro-Colombian Cartagena: Routes of the Cabildos and the Heritage of the Cimarrones in Getsemaní
Cartagena de Indias cannot be understood without Africa. And I don't say that as a brochure line: I say it because the very layout of the city, its brotherhoods