By Corey Sandler
We enjoyed a beautiful afternoon evening and morning at a hot place in a hot place: Cartagena.
We arrived on a Sunday aon the day before Christmas Eve and this city of nearly two million people was in a party mood. Then again Cartagena is almost always in a party mood. They call it rumbeando.
Here are some photos I took in the decorated streets and at sunset as we enjoyed a cold beer and celebrated the setting of the sun.
All photos by Corey Sandler. Copyright 2018, all rights reserved.
Cartagena, La Heroica, was one of Spain’s treasuries in the New World, along with Havana, Cuba.
As Spain extracted gold, silver, pearls, silk, and almost anything else they could move from the Americas and beyond from the Phillippines, China, and Japan, the had to sail their galleons through the Gulf of Mexico past the real pirates of the Caribbean.
Cartagena grew wealthy from that role, and as a result of the massive fortifications put in place by the Spanish.
Today the city is one of the handsomest places in this part of the world, a rich stew of Spanish Colonial architecture, Spanish and indigenous food and music and dance, and the money left behind by modern tourists.
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