Naval Museum of the Caribbean Tours and Tickets

Go beyond the tourist guidebook and dive deep into the true stories of pirates in Cartagena on an audioguide tour. This tour is perfect for adventurous travelers who enjoy their independence. The comprehensive walking route takes you through the Getsemaní neighborhood to San Felipe Fort. Along the way, pass the Plaza de Bolivar, Monumento a los Zapatos Viejos, Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas, and other pirate-related landmarks.

Get a thorough overview of Cartagena’s significant landmarks on a private walking tour. With a flexible itinerary, you’re free to visit the attractions that interest you and skip the ones that don’t. Possible highlights include Parque de la Marina, Museo Naval Del Caribe, Museo del Oro Zenu, and several of the city’s important plazas. Every step of the way, your guide will provide illuminating commentary on Cartagena's history and culture.

On this tour, an expert guide will take you to back in time to the city beginnings. The first encounters between the invading Spanish and the indigenous calamari natives. The attacks perpetrated by different pirates, privateers (corsairs), buccaneers and philibusters throughout the colonial period. We also explain how independence wars prompted Colombia to start building its military force that later became known as Fuerzas Armadas de Colombia, the national army. We will visit: Naval Museum, San Felipe fortress (castle), Las bóvedas. In each one of them, we also touch on the recent history of Cartagena as part of Colombia conflicts with guerrilla groups, drug trafficking (Medellin and Cali Cartels), Paramilitary groups, constitutional amendments, Extradition in Colombia, Narco guerrilla as well as Colombia´s peace talks and agreements.

Without a doubt, in the Heroic Cartagena, remains the moorish architectonic legacy brought from the south of Spain; and we can state that this one is the richest legacy in America. Today, with the help of a specialized guide, you can still see the formal elements that constitute this architecture. By the end of this tour we will conclude the city is a domestic arquitecture compendium: the houses with the balconies and their hallways, their inner yards and wells, etc; Civil Architecture: the goverment buildings of the time located usually in front of a square; militar architecture such as the city walls and forts; the troops quarter and strongholds, etc; and the imponent religious architecture: monasteries, convents, churches, etc. In this architecture a overlapping of styles happended, the republican over the colonial, which brings us to conclude that architecture in Cartagena is prominently Eclectic.