# Photo Review Centro Historico Cartagena

Riley Quinn · August 13, 2014

> Cartagena is known for its colonial city as much as Santo Domingo Zona Colonial.

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Cartagena is known for its colonial city as much as [Santo Domingo Zona Colonial.](http://www.mightytravels.com/13232755/photo_review_santo_domingo_zona_colonial.php)

It's in a much better shape and is a valid tourist attraction but it almost comes off as too clean. It's full of real-life institutions like government buildings and a public university but it also has many boutique hotels and shops.

While traffic can be annoying during the day in Cartagena, the whole historical part of town becomes a car-free area with just horse carriages. It will most likely still be just as hot there but the illumination is just beautiful.

Cartagena does only really have beaches and its centro historico but it does both very well.

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