Cartagena is not an unfamiliar city for travelers, this city is excellent tourist city in Colombia. Being on the edge of the Caribbean Sea, Cartagena famous as a favorite beach resort town in northern Colombia and is the fifth largest city in the country. Located 658 km north of Bogota, the capital of Colombia.Wikipedia notes, Cartagena inhabited by 892 thousand people is the economic center in the Caribbean region. The place is beautiful, comfortable, and great fun for a vacation. The beach is beautiful with bright blue sea water and the buildings of the Spanish colonial style city's main attraction.
Is the occupation of Spain in period gave the name of Cartagena on June 1, 1533. Not only used as a center of economic development as a port city, Cartagena was also used as a center of political activity.
Currently a variety of accommodation options for tourists from five-star hotel on the shores of waters the Caribbean to small motels in district of Gethsemane who packed the historic colonial Cartagena. Residents there are accustomed to speak in two languages, Spanish and English, making it easier valued tourists who travel in this city.
Cartagena is a city for walking. Historic buildings to make visitors feel like walking in the area of Morocco. In fact, one of the old city in Cartagena in as a UNESCO cultural heritage.
Although it was far away in other parts of the world, Cartagena has a tropical climate and humidity around 90 percent, the rainy season are common in Cartagena in April-May and October-November. In addition to those months, the climate tends to be hot and windy.
The city was attacked several times by pirates from France Jean-François Roberval that forced Governor Pedro de Heredia to go and give him the gold so the city was not attacked. In 1559, Martin Cote French pirates dominate the city and ignored the existence of Cacique Maridalo.
Another pirate named Francis Drake's attack, which landed at night and take over the city at dawn; he forced residents to flee to the next village, Turbaco, burning houses and destroying the Cathedral. These nobles forced the ruler to pay 107,000 ducats, some jewelry and 80 artillery equipment.
In order to dispel various attacks, during the 17th century, the Spanish government to recruit soldiers from Europe to build a fort, which is now the real identity of Cartagena. Its construction lasted for 208 years, and form a wall along the 17 km around the city, the palace was named the Castle of San Felipe de Barajas, in honor of King Felipe IV, built by observer equipped boxes, weapons and food warehouses and underground tunnels.
Cartagena was the center of trade, particularly for iron. Gold and silver from mines in New Granada and Peru are loaded to Cartagena by the troops to Spain via Havana.
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