OLD WALLED CITY OF CARTAGENA COLOMBIA , AMAZING PLACE IN SOUTH AMERICA

Cartagena’s Fortified Old City
is the best-preserved colonial city in Latin America. The walled city was constructed in the sixteenth century by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Heredia, named Cartagena de Indias, after his birthplace in Spain. Located on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, the city has since served as an important port for trade between Europe and South America, earning its nickname “Queen of the Caribbean.” Cartagena is Colombia’s fifth-largest city by population after Bogotá, Medellín, Cali and Barranquilla.

Cartagena’s Old City Wall Stats
This structure is a marvel or architectural prowess and engineering finesse. Even modern construction companies would be hard pressed to produce such a magnificent structure.

• The wall stretches for 11 kilometers (6.8 miles) around the port and Old City.

• At points the walls themselves are several meters thick.

• The Old City Wall is crowned by several Bastions at which soldiers would have been stationed to ward off attacks.

• Constructed mostly from Coral Stone, it’s surprisingly ornate in places with graceful curves, arched passageways, sensual domes, and meticulously joined pieces.

• Construction began in 1586 and didn’t end for another 200 years!

• It cost the Spanish Empire well over 20,000,000 Spanish reals to complete–

• In 1985 the Old City Wall and the Old City inside it were designated UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Cartagena was once one of the most important cities in the Spanish Empire. With billions of dollars worth of gold, gems, exotic cash crops, and slave labor flowing through the city it was a ripe target for pirates and privateers like Sir Francis Drake. It’s no wonder then that the empire would spend as much money as they did to build massive fortifications around the city.

Today, the Old City Wall in Cartagena stands as a monument to that rough-and-tumble time when anxious lookouts scanned the horizon for an enemy’s sails.


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