Cartagena is a tourist and cultural district that is known as the stone corralito or the walled city and is located on the shores of the Caribbean Sea
The first thing you feel when you step into the Rafael Núñez International Airport in Cartagena de Indias is the Caribbean climate that embraces you and never lets you go. It is the perfect city for vacations at any time of the year because its temperature, very rarely in history, has been below 28°C.
Founded by Spaniards in 1533, the Historic Center of Cartagena still preserves its colonial facades that guard the most luxurious and exclusive properties restored by famous world-class architects and today, some of them function as boutique hotels where the chic and cosmopolitan tourist loves to stay. since you access a luxury loaded with the history that each of these houses hides.
Cartagena is surrounded by walls, which have remained as a vestige of the multiple attacks by English pirates who came to the city in search of rich treasures, for which King Philip IV of Spain ordered the construction of other fortifications in the 17th century such as the Castle. San Felipe de Barajas and the San Sebastián de Pastelillo Fort, for which Cartagena has been named a Historical and Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
The history of this city has also left us other tourist places, among which are: the Palace of the Inquisition, the Clock Tower, the Cathedral, the Vaults; all of them open to the public and it is recommended to visit, in order to rediscover the history they hide.
But Cartagena can also be discovered in its streets, squares and parks, which are part of stories from past centuries and where you can always find cultural samples in exchange for coins; Walking through these streets, each named after experiences from other times, is like reading a fairy tale, there is a reason they say that the nights of Cartagena are magical. This has made it the scene of festivals, events and conferences of international stature. The stone corralito also has the infrastructure available for the logistics they require, with fairgrounds with large capacity and more than 13.000 hotel rooms available.
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