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TOP COLOMBIA TIPS HAY FESTIVAL EN CARTAGENA DE INDIAS Por: Néstor Meléndez Soler Top Colombia Tips Cartagena de Indias recibe todos los años durante la última semana de enero uno de los festivales más importantes del mundo de las letras. El Hay Festival , es una fiesta de la cultura en la cual los escritores y autores se encuentran con el público en charlas y eventos en donde cuentan sus formas de creación y acercan su obra a los asistentes creando un ambiente en el cual el realismo mágico que se vive en la ciudad se compagina con la nueva literatura que se escribe en la actualidad. El Hay festival nació en una pequeña población llamada Hay-on-Wye  en Gales. Con tan solo 1500 habitantes este pueblo Galés es quizás el lugar del mundo con más librerías por habitante, ya que hay 41 de ellas que están abiertas al público. Es una ciudad de lectores que es conocida como la ciudad de los libros y fue allí donde nació el festival en el año de 1988 como un encuentro l...

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...