Historic Cartagena City Tour: Colonial Mansions, Convents, and Fortifications Exploration

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: 24 hours
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…
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…

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.

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Jeanr730
Dec 24, 2024
Outstanding guided tour of the most beautiful city in the Americas - Our guide, Alberto was truly excellent. He picked up us at our resort in a comfortable van for the 6 of us. During the next 4 hours, we visited the old fortress, the convent of La Popa and then had an extensive walking tour of the old city. Alberto was vey knowledgeable and gave us a very good appreciation of the history, architecture and present life in the city. He recommended and make reservations for us in an outstanding little restaurant and arranged for our trip back to our resort after dinner. It was a most enjoyable day in this gorgeous city
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Blingdiva
Dec 22, 2024
Amazing Tour and the best guide in Cartagena! - Nico was fantastic. He was so informative and an amazing person. Everywhere we went everyone was stopping to say hello to him. I believe he’s the most popular guide/person in Cartagena. We had a truly wonderful day with him. Highly recommend.
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Cathy_j
Dec 21, 2024
Knowledgable - Knowledge of guide and willingness to accommodate our needs. Very heavy traffic and excellent driver!
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Michelle_f
Dec 14, 2024
BEST day tour of the heart of Cartagena! - Sion Travel they Viator was the very best private day tour of the beautiful city of Cartagena! Elis our guide was so passionate with showing us all the beautiful historic monuments. We loved learning about the city, people, culture. food and geography. She did an excellent tour that included a little shopping and had us taste the local fruits! Manuel our friendly driver was always timely, clean vehicle and had plenty of cold bottled water for us. We would take this tour again without any hesitation.
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Latoya_l
Dec 14, 2024
Must do - Our guide Francisco and our driver Gabriel was amazing. They made sure we were good the entire tour. Fransisco was very knowledgeable about every place we visited. This is a must do tour.
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Thomas_h
Dec 14, 2024
Book it now! - This was the best and most professional guided tour I have ever been on in 40 years of travelling. Highly recommend based on vehicle comfort, and knowledge of guide 'Rocko'. Be sure the stop at the monastery is included. Extremely educational with fascinating history and views are breathtaking. Guide noticed some in our party, so midway, he ordered a larger Mercedes van to finish trip. We walked and drove thru the old city and saw all of the highlights. Highly highly recommend this tour with this tour company Sino. Just one slight negative - mandatory stop at an emeral store and outdoor cheap trinket market. I didnt book the tour to go shopping for souvenirs. Be sure to ask for 'Rockp' as guide. What a character. Classy, a current lawyer, former boxer, and pastor. Very steeped in historical background of Cartagena. Loved him.
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Karen_s
Dec 12, 2024
Excellent - Our guide was wonderful! We learned so much about the history and culture of Cartagena. Would highly recommend this guide and tour.
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772allenb
Dec 10, 2024
Amazing Tour, Amazing Guide, Amazing Company. - We took a private tour with our driver Jose and our terrific guide Carlos. We visited the convent, took pictures outside the fort, shopped at the chocolate museum, the vaults for candy and with street vendors. We took a break from the heat at a coffee shop and had a snack and drinks at a Cafe. The car was new and air conditioned. We would walk and explore, meet the car and drive somewhere else and do it again. Did I mention Carlos; He was Amazing!!! I highly recommend this company.
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Tourist43986893691
Dec 10, 2024
Al is great tour guide - This trip was amazing. I love history and culture and the guide Al was so knowledgeable on both. Al took the time to make sure I enjoyed every part of the journey, even going above and beyond as I was solo. The driver was amazing and made sure we navigated the tour efficiently and was very helpful. Would highly recommend
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Emilia_j
Dec 7, 2024
Our guide was... - Our guide was knowledgeable and the tour was very well organized. Would recommend this tour to learn more about tge history of Cartagena.
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