Historic Cartagena City Tour: Colonial Mansions, Convents, and Fortifications Exploration
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Cartagena
Explore the historic city of Cartagena on a private tour, visiting colonial mansions, convents, and fortifications. Discover the city's main monuments, including La Popa's Hill and San Felipe de Barajas Fortress, before exploring the walled city and bohemian neighborhood. Immerse yourself in the history and legends of the old colonial houses, and end the tour with a visit to the modern part of Cartagena.
Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas - The Biggest fortification of the america
  • La Popa Convent - Convent Century XVII in the Highest point of the city
  • Walled City of Cartagena - Old City Heritage of the world since 1984
  • Manga - Neighborhood Neoclassical houses.
  • Barrio Getsemani - Getsemani shares the Old Walled City of Cartagena’s bright Caribbean colors, narrow streets, and friendly locals. the authentic neighborhood of the city
  • Las Bovedas - Handrycafts Market Stop Shop
  • Bocagrande - Our Modern neighborhood like Miami or Panama city, full of malls and casino and style modern houses and skyscrapers
  • Plaza de Bolivar - Walking Tour
  • Playa de Bocagrande - Panoramic View Moderm Area of the City
  • Restaurante Fuerte de San Sebastián del Pastelillo-Club de Pesca - Barrio de Manga
  • Plaza Santo Domingo - Walking tour
What's Included
  • Private tour with customized departure times
  • Professional guide and driver service
  • Transportation in air-conditioned vehicle
  • Pickup and drop-off at hotel and port
  • Bottled water provided
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Private tour to visit in detail the principal sites of interest located in the old city of Cartagena. This excellent experience begins by visiting the main monuments of the city like the La Popa’s Hill. The highest point of the city where there is a convent dating the beginning of the XVII Century. after we visit San Felipe de Barajas Fortress which is considered the most important military fortification in South America. Then the tour heads to the walled city and the bohemian neighborhood Getsemaní. first a stop for shopping in the last build fortification named ‘Las Bovedas’ , after we take a walking tour, visiting the different squares of the city (St Domingo Square, Bolivar Square, Los Coches Square, Aduana Square, Clock Tower, St Pedro Square) and admiring the old colonial houses filled with history and legend. At the end we take a tour by the modern part of Cartagena (Bocagrande, Laguito and Castillogrande).

  • May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
  • At time of booking, Cruise ship passengers must provide the following information at time of booking: Name Travellers, ship name, docking time, disembarkation time and re-boarding time
Location
Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas
Carrera 17
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Timandjoann
Apr 6, 2024
Fun and detailed excursion in Cartegena Columbia - Else our guide from Sion (through (Viator) , we did Fort Felipe, the Monastery (wow- best view in Cartagena) and the walled city- could not have had a better day. Watching buses of tourists struggle around I was able to seriously enjoy my day with my wife and our guide and driver! It was exceptional and an amazing time - highly recommend this trip, tour company and guide, the whole day was exceptional. .
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T646tuchristinab
Apr 2, 2024
Best Tour! - I came with my cousins for a birthday and absolutely loved it! Nicomedes was very very nice and kind. He is very knowledgeable about the city and answered every question we had. I felt very safe in his care.
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G3962ecderekk
Mar 31, 2024
Highly recommend as a great introduction to Cartagena - The tour with Nico was a trip highlight. He was able to strike the right balance of recounting Cartagena’s history in an engaging, informative yet fun way. Would recommend highly as a way to familiarize yourself with the city and hit the highlights for further exploration.
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Skytriper22
Mar 26, 2024
Excellent way to see the city - We had an excellent time with Fausto Peñata and unfortunately I forgot the other gentleman Good history and good driving. Having never been to Cartagena before it was a wonderful experience
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Ann_b
Mar 22, 2024
Wonderful informative tour - Incredible! The guide met us within the cruise port and we traveled from site to site with our driver and guide in a wonderfully air conditioned car. Our guide provided a very comprehensive tour with the history of the city as well as an overview of Columbia.
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Marianne_c
Mar 19, 2024
Wonderful tour - We had such a great time with our tour guide John, we learned a lot from him about the city and he took us to some really beautiful places. It was a great overview of the city and we would highly recommend this tour! Taking the cable car up to the top of the mountain was probably my favorite part!
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Jessica_r
Mar 17, 2024
Fabulous Tour - The city tour was just great. Nico was our guide and he went above and beyond. His English was excellent. He was extremely knowledgeable, adaptable to our group’s ability to tolerate walking and the extreme heat. He was thoughtful and funny and kind. We all tipped him despite the cultural expectations to the contrary. Any group would be fortunate to get Nico as their host to the city.
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Mad5307
Mar 13, 2024
Wonderful day of history! - Nico was a great guide! He tailored the tour to us, and he was incredibly knowledgeable of the history of Cartagena and Colombia. I would highly recommend this tour!
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Paul_b
Mar 26, 2024
A bit short changed - 4 hour tour was only 2 1/2. Never made it to the Bocogrande neighborhood, which we hoped to see. The guide was pleasant but had limited English skills.
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Justin_c
Apr 3, 2024
Guide never showed up and called 45 minutes after start time. - The tour guide never showed up, 45 minutes after the confirmed time of the start of the tour I received a message saying they had to cancel. Always book through the hotel concierge!
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