Cartagena de Indias, whose old city is Heritage of Humankind, is located at sea level on the northern
corner of Colombia and South America.

Besides its famous magnificently preserved walls, bulwarks and castles, Cartagena de Indias counts
with a valuable civil, domestic and religious restored architectural heritage that offers a majestic
landscape and converts it into a magical city, detained in time.

Cartagena de Indias, and old Spanish colony was founded 474 years ago and during 278 years was
scenery to bloody assaults of pirates and corsairs who plundered it and forced the the Catholic Kings
of Spain to fortify the city.

Today, 196 years after its independence, it is the most important colonial and touristic city in
Colombia.

It’s restored heritage, the variety and quality of the hotels and restaurants, surrounded by the beautiful
Caribbean Sea is complemented with the glad, amiable and opened spirit of its people.

In Cartagena de Indias, it is possible to re-live through incredible histories and feats Valiant
personages who founded the city, the best engineers and architects of the time during hundreds of
years designed and constructed and impressive defensive system that took the King of Spain to
express that “when would he be able to see the walls from Spain”; natives and slaves, monks and the
military, corsairs and pirates, all this make the city a forced destiny to visit.

The Cartagena in walls offers 11 kilometers of walls, 23 bulwarks, castles and churches of great
architectural value, among which may be emphasized Santo Domingo and the Cathedral, their
construction started in the XVI century and were completely restored in 2006, and may now be visited.