Cartagena City Tour with Popa Hill (PM)

Castillo San Felipe de Barajas is a fortification located in the city of Cartagena de Indias in Colombia.
It is located on a hill called San Lazarus.
It was built in 1657 during the Spanish colonial era.
He suffered constant attacks from the English and French,
Being the French commander Baron de Pointis who took the castle in mid-1697.

When the traveler approaches Cartagena by any of the three routes - land, sea or air - the first thing that you can see from a distance is a mountain range or small hill, whose highest part measures 148 meters above sea level. It has always been called La Popa de La Galera.

When the visitor penetrates inside the convent, he is admired by the magnificence of the central courtyard and, above all, by the solidity of columns and walls capable of resisting attacks and bombings.
The church was dedicated to the purification of the Virgin or Candlemas, name that comes from the candles that bless in his honor on February 2, holiday day.

There is no festivity in Cartagena, neither civic nor religious, that has a splendor equal, and not even similar, to that of the Candelaria de la Popa festival. The crowds that form in the solemn precession on February 2, from the sanctuary of La Popa to the city center, are not contemplated in any other popular concentration

This important Monument was the residencial building for Soldiers during Colonial Times nowadays converted in the
Best Handicraft Shopping mall of Cartagena de Indias Cartagena where we can appreciate local and nationals handicrafts and jewels in Gold and silver with colombian emeralds

30 minutes walking tour in the walled city will make this tour unforgetable, the old city is surrounded by walls ,

a Cartagena poet called Luis Carlos Lopez wrote a poem Title my home town he said he love is old shoes as much as his home towm

Sightseeing tour of the new city to appreciate Cartagena Bay, Bocagrande and Castillogrande Neighborhood