Activities in Cartagena

There's dancing almost every night at this bar deep inside the iffy part of Gesemaní - take a taxi here and back.

The tropical-fruit-colored façade hides a marble interior that offers a cooling respite from the hot city streets.

The busy Centro district revolves around the Plaza de Bolívar, an overgrown public square where teenage couples kiss and palenqueras - women who sell

Bill Gates and Spanish King Juan Carlos I are devotees of this pint-size workshop where tailor Edgar Gómez Estévez has been creating his white linen g

A museum full of historical dioramas and crude 18th-century portraits of governors and generals. The first floor displays torture devices that illustr

A lively bar just a short taxi ride from the central city with music on Fridays. Dancing couples spill out onto the balcony and salsa music lasts late

The quietist of Cartagena's four quarters, it's also where to find the best arepas in town. Most visitors tour the neighborhood in one of the horse-dr

The theater was built in 1911 to celebrate 100 years of Colombian independence.