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  CARTAGENA DE INDIAS:  "INTO THE WALLS OF THE CITY" Walk with this TripAdvisor  GPS audio-tour by the plazas and streets of Cartagena de Indias. Start at the Torre del Reloj, learn about the walls, bastions, events like the suffering of black enslaved Africans, the legacy of Saint Peter Claver, see where the Inquisición Española ruled, feel and know places that inspired Gabriel García Márquez to do his literature. Know about the corners, the spaces and the magic of the fantastic corralito de piedra (stone corral) as is also known. Feel the city like a local and walk with confidence guided by the  GPS with your own device and headphones. T he tour is ready whenever you are. It plays audio automatically at exactly the right time and place using your smart phone's GPS and the VoiceMap mobile app, which also works offline. Perfect for the “I don’t like to look like a tourist” kind of people. Start the Voicemap GPS audio tour at “La Torre del Reloj...

TOP COLOMBIA TIPS The Classical Cartagena de Indias restaurants featured in a GPS guided travel article: Cartagena de Indias, the top Colombia´s touristic destination is now another site of the world to offer GPS travel articles thru GPSMycity . A GPS-guided travel article mixes important information and a location guided map to make the tourist very well informed about the site and the place where is located. It also serves to guide the tourist thru a route that will give the very best info and coordinates of the specific location. An app to guide you by the best classical restaurants of Cartagena de Indias, the top tourism Colombia´s destination is available to   the public of App Store and Google Play. For this week (6/11 to 6/18) only, you can receive free of charge this wonderful guide thru the best classical restaurants of Cartagena de Indias guided by GPS. This is a an article that will introduce you into the gastronomy that has marked this port s...

TOP COLOMBIA TIPS Essential Cartagena. “Old city and walls tour” Chapter 2 By: Néstor Meléndez Soler https://www.gpsmycity.com/gps-tour-guides/cartagena-5045.html ·                  LA INDIA CATALINA: T he statue of La India Catalina is one of the top landmarks In Cartagena de Indias. It is a representation of a very important aborigine woman in the history of this city. The statue was created and sculpted in 1961 by the city artist Hector Lombana, who designed it as a handheld trophy , requested by the organizers to be the prize award for the International Movie festival of Cartagena . In 1974, it was casted in bronze by Eladio Gil, and that is the feminine figure you can now see over the pedestal. The winners of the now movie and television festival keep on being awarded with the small version as the prize for every category. As an analogy, it can be said that the...

This is the history of one man that gave it all for the African slaves that came to Cartagena.   Peter Claver called “The Slave of Slaves”, lived at Cartagena de Indias, in the first half of the 17 th century. African descendants from all around the world give eternal tribute to this saint that lived to his motive of serving human beings, motored by God. Cartagena de Indias was from the 1500s till late 1800s the preeminent slave Spanish port in the Caribbean and where the biggest human slave trade happened. There were only 2 ports authorized by the kingdom of Spain to receive Portuguese slave ships sailing from Africa. Those were Veracruz, in the territory of The Nueva España, or how we know it today, Mexico and Cartagena de Indias in the Nueva Granada, today Colombia.   The number one “legal” slave port market was Cartagena by far. More than double of the blacks that were slaved and imported “legally” by Spain to America, set foot for the f...