Cartagena Movie Locations Walk

I'll show you the gorgeous plazas, streets, and colonial corners that have served as the perfect natural backlot for Hollywood blockbusters and romantic period dramas alike.

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1. Sofitel Legend Santa Clara Cartagena

The thick stone walls of the Sofitel Legend Santa Clara were built for the Poor Clares convent in sixteen twenty-one. Pirates and changing colonial fortunes forced the nuns out, and the structure later served as a charity hospital and even…

2. Parque Fernández Madrid

A bronze statue of a man in a frock coat stands in the center of the park, surrounded by colonial facades and tall palm trees. This is the memorial to Andrés de Santa Cruz y Calahumana, though locals know this plaza by the name of the…

3. La Presentación Casa Museo

The white facade of La Presentación Casa Museo faces the street with a high, arched wooden door that conceals an expansive courtyard inside. Built during the eighteenth century, the house served as a convent school for young girls run by…

4. Heredia Theatre

The Heredia Theatre rises above the streets of Cartagena with a facade covered in intricate stone carvings and topped by a distinctive, tiered cupola. It sits on the foundations of a seventeenth century church, the Iglesia de la Merced.…

5. STREET FACTORÍA

The street known as La Factoría in Cartagena takes its name from the old Royal Treasury building that once stood at the corner. Back in the seventeen hundreds, officials collected taxes in gold and silver here before the wealth was loaded…

6. Portal de los dulces

A long row of thick, arched stone pillars supports the shaded walkway of the Portal de los Dulces. Behind these columns, vendors sell traditional Colombian sweets made from coconut, tamarind, and arequipe. This space once functioned as a…

7. Café Havana

A pair of tall, arched wooden doors stands framed by peeling ochre paint at the corner of Calle de Media Luna and Calle del Guerrero. Inside this space, the camera crew for Gemini Man captured the frantic energy of a Colombian nightlife…

8. Calle de la Sierpe

Calle de la Sierpe displays a row of weathered colonial houses distinguished by their heavy wooden balconies and vivid, peeling paint. While the rest of Getsemaní evolved into a tourist hub, this street retained the grit of the nineteen…

9. Plaza de la Trinidad

Plaza de la Trinidad features a sun-bleached colonial church on one side and a collection of open-air restaurants that spill into the square. In eighteen eleven, this space became the center of Cartagena’s independence movement. Pedro…

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