Cartagena Sights

Convento de la Popa

#12 of 81 things to do in Cartagena

#63 of 715 things to do in Colombia

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  • Address
    • La Popa E of Cartagena
  • Transport
    • from Old Town or foot of La Popa Hill
  • Phone
    • 5 666 2331
  • Price
    • adult/child COP$6000/4000
  • Hours
    • 9am-5pm

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Lonely Planet review for Convento de la Popa

On a 150m-high hill, the highest point in the city, about 2km beyond Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas is this convent. Its name literally means the Convent of the Stern, after the hill’s apparent similarity to a ship’s back end, but it’s actually the Convento de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria, founded by the Augustine fathers in 1607. Initially it was just a small wooden chapel, which was replaced by a stouter construction when the hill was fortified two centuries later, just before Pablo Morillo’s siege.

 

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