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Cartagena

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  1. Adolfo Mejía Theater (Teatro Heredia): story on the “San Diego: Convents, Theater, and the Northern Wall” route

    Here, the building’s rescue unfolds through details that were first removed and returned years later.

  2. Camellón de los Mártires: story on the “Getsemaní: A Neighborhood of Artisans and Neighbors” route

    Here, the official memorial line begins with a mismatch between the number of people executed and the number of portraits.

  3. Church of Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo: story on the “San Diego: Convents, Theater, and the Northern Wall” route

    This stop connects the parish’s origins, the dispute over its dedication, and the memory of the British siege.

  4. Clock Tower Gate and Plaza de los Coches: story on the “Cartagena's Old Port: Gates, Squares, and Bastions” route

    Here you will see how the square's location just beyond the gate turned the city entrance into a place where people were distributed.

  5. Convent of Santa Clara (Hotel Santa Clara): story on the “San Diego: Convents, Theater, and the Northern Wall” route

    This stop separates the fictional biography of Santa Clara from the documented history of the convent and hospital.

  6. Iglesia de la Santísima Trinidad: story on the “Getsemaní: A Neighborhood of Artisans and Neighbors” route

    The church shows the price the residents paid for their own church and which right its donor did not receive.

  7. Las Bóvedas: story on the “San Diego: Convents, Theater, and the Northern Wall” route

    The final stop will show how military rooms were given a new life thanks to the first tenants.

  8. Parque del Centenario: story on the “Getsemaní: A Neighborhood of Artisans and Neighbors” route

    The park shows how an anniversary monument and the artisans' contribution diverged over the choice of the main hero.

  9. Plaza de la Aduana: story on the “Cartagena's Old Port: Gates, Squares, and Bastions” route

    The weapons storehouse will show why the political dispute in this square could end in full independence.

  10. Plaza de la Trinidad: story on the “Getsemaní: A Neighborhood of Artisans and Neighbors” route

    The square is needed to move the story of independence from the meeting hall to the people gathered before marching on the junta.

  11. Plaza de San Pedro Claver: story on the “Cartagena's Old Port: Gates, Squares, and Bastions” route

    The history of the interpreters reveals the limits of help that operated within the system of slavery.

  12. Plaza Fernández de Madrid: story on the “San Diego: Convents, Theater, and the Northern Wall” route

    Here you will see how a monument and the square's name turned a contested biography into the story of a city hero.

  13. Calle de la Media Luna: story on the “Getsemaní: A Neighborhood of Artisans and Neighbors” route

    A vanished fortification makes it possible to examine a military maneuver in which an unsuccessful assault achieved its purpose.

  14. Calle del Pozo: story on the “Getsemaní: A Neighborhood of Artisans and Neighbors” route

    The final stop explains the shape of the square through the vanished shared source of water for household use.

  15. Callejón Angosto: story on the “Getsemaní: A Neighborhood of Artisans and Neighbors” route

    The alley will connect the old dense development with the neighbors’ recent attempt to make the street shared again.

  16. India Catalina Monument: story on the “Cartagena’s Landward Defense: From Media Luna Gate to San Felipe de Barajas” route

    This is where the route along the avenue associated with the man against whom the interpreter testified begins.

  17. Old Boots Monument: story on the “Cartagena’s Landward Defense: From Media Luna Gate to San Felipe de Barajas” route

    The history of the monument’s two versions links a municipal demolition, poetic mockery, and the habit of taking photographs inside the sculpture.

  18. San Ignacio Bastion: story on the “Cartagena's Old Port: Gates, Squares, and Bastions” route

    Two lines of masonry preserve the outcome of a long dispute between the college and the military defenses.

  19. Santa Catalina and San Lucas Bastions: story on the “San Diego: Convents, Theater, and the Northern Wall” route

    Here, the layout of the northern defenses becomes clear through engineering economy, a storm, and the later rebuilding.

  20. Santo Domingo Bastion: story on the “Cartagena's Old Port: Gates, Squares, and Bastions” route

    At the site of the nighttime breakthrough, it becomes clear why they began building the permanent defensive ring precisely here.

  21. Heredia Bridge and the site of the Media Luna Ravelin: story on the “Cartagena’s Landward Defense: From Media Luna Gate to San Felipe de Barajas” route

    This stop shows how a military entrance gave way to a straight city road.

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