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Cartagena Walking Tour

By cartagena caribbean tours
9.6 out of 10
Exceptional
Free cancellation available
Price is £74 per adult* *Get lower prices by selecting more than 2 adults
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

This tour will take you to the most important streets, squares, churches, coffee, restaurants, and the best places of interest in Cartagena. We know all stories about pirates, legends and history of this magical city.

Activity location

  • Camellon de los Martires
    • Avenida 25 de Setembro, 1845
    • Cartagena, Colombia

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Monumento Torre del Reloj
    • 130001, Cartagena de Indias, Bolívar, Colombia

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Cartagena Walking Tour

  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • English
Price details
£73.50 x 1 Adult£73.50
Total
Price is £73.50

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Local tour guide
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Bottled water
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Food and drinks, unless specified

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • wear comfortable sports clothes (optional)
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Walled City of Cartagena (Pass by)

In our walking tours, we visit each important square, place, and street where we talk about its importance and history. It is said that there are cities that have their own soul and Cartagena de Indias is one of them. With its history and modest personality, the Walled City was declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Travel with us through the beautiful and romantic streets and squares that are within the symbolic wall of the «Corralito de Piedra». In here, we will go through the conquest, the colony and the republic stages, that are mixed with the modernity of the XXI century. From its history, its magical and enchanting architecture you will learn about interesting battles with pirates and corsairs, the Indigenous and African influence comes from the Caribbean miscegenation, religious influence, our joyful musical culture and ravishing beauty of colours and aromas. Join us in this wonderful experience!

Camellon de los Martires

  • 10m
  • Admission ticket included
Our accredited tour guide will welcome you to this incredible experience and will verify your reservation. There he will locate you geographically, give you directions and introduce himself to start the tour. In the Camellón de Los Mártires - Plaza de Cervantes we will learn about the indigenous people who were before and during the arrival of the Spanish.

Torre del Reloj

  • 10m
  • Admission ticket included
We move to the "Golden Key of Cartagena" or Clock Tower entering the Plaza del Ecuador, before the Plaza del Esclavo, a prelude to continue part of the enslavement route through Porto Carrero and Candilejo streets. But first, Pedro de Heredía welcomes us.

Monumento a Pedro de Heredia

  • 10m
  • Admission ticket included
Here you will learn about Miguel de Cervantes and his relationship with the city. Also, the importance of him in Colombian literature. Here you will learn more about the slave markets and the importance of the portal of the typical sweets of the city.

Portal de Los Dulces

  • 10m
  • Admission ticket included
We continue to the Portal de Los dulces, a symbol of female activity in times of slavery and that their descendants still continue their traditions.

Plaza de la Aduana

  • 10m
  • Admission ticket included
The process of commercialization of merchandise, including that of the enslaved, in the old "Plaza de la Aduana", has been historically important. Here we will see important buildings such as the Municipal Hall.

Museo de Arte Moderno de Cartagena de Indias

  • 10m
  • Admission ticket included
Of course, art is no stranger to the tour, the Museum of Modern Art, an exponent of Caribbean and Latin American art from the 50's, the Gold Museum opens its doors with samples of indigenous pieces from the Colombian Caribbean and the Emerald Museum, stones of beautiful considered the most beautiful in the world, worn by celebrities.

Plaza de San Pedro Claver

  • 10m
  • Admission ticket included
Religion is present with San Pedro Claver, Slave of the Slaves, we will see the Architecture of the Church and Museum-Monastery that bear his name and is the Headquarters of Human Rights

Baluarte de San Ignacio

  • 10m
  • Admission ticket included
This bastion was built to defend the "Bay of Souls" from any pirate attack. On this tour we will see the history behind the walls of Cartagena.

Plaza de Bolivar

  • 10m
  • Admission ticket included
Do you like the feats of pirates and corsairs? We count them when visiting a Bastion, as a sample of Spanish military constructions and strategies, we continue to Plaza Bolívar, in homage to the precursor of Independence, a place to refresh ourselves.

Plaza de la Proclamacion

  • 10m
  • Admission ticket included
At this point we will find different places of interest. As: the palace of the inquisition, the passage where the beauty queens of our country are exhibited and the gold museum. Tickets to entrance to these places are not included during the tour, we will only refer to them within the scheme and topics of the tour.

Barrio Getsemani

  • 5m
Grafities, Culture, Music, customs, folklore, trade, architecture. We will enjoy one of the most important and colourful cultural corridors of Getsemaní, due to the umbrellas (symbol of the advertisement), the graffiti and the unique architecture.

Parque del Centenario

  • 5m
  • Admission ticket included
Do you know the sloths, the squirrels, the iguanas? You will see them in one of the most important Lungs of Cartagena, Centennial Park, former Railway Station, which is a relic of the Tropical Dry Forest where we refresh under the shade of beautiful trees.

Calle de San Juan

  • 5m
Here we wil talk about Grafities, Café, Blas de Lezo, Gabriel García Marques, Mister Black, Joe Arroyo.

Plaza de La Trinidad

  • 5m
Finally, we enter the Callejón Ancho, to reach the end of the route along Calle San Juan to the sound of salsa and the African champeta; previously passing by the church and square of the Holy Trinity.

Location

Activity location

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    Camellon de los Martires
    • Avenida 25 de Setembro, 1845
    • Cartagena, Colombia

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Monumento Torre del Reloj
    • 130001, Cartagena de Indias, Bolívar, Colombia

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