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San Diego & Gabriel García Marquez Walking Tour


Beyond Colombia


Meet the neighborhood that inspired Gabriel García Márquez: San Diego. Know the streets that tell the life of the characters of "Love in the times of cholera" and "of love and other demons."


Santo Domingo Square



Cartagena will never be the same after you take this free tour. Be part of an exceptional and magical experience thanks to the stories that give life to the streets, follow the steps that our Nobel Prize for Literature "Gabo" between squares and bastions, between houses and balconies. If you have not yet read any Gabo novel, or you are a regular for your literary works, this route will fuele your senses and alter your reality.

From the Plaza de Santo Domingo to the house of Gabriel García Márquez in San Diego Cartagena, he lives the art, music and literature of the Bohemian neighborhood in which our writer lived absurd, magical and imaginary realities that influenced his life and later in The lives of their characters that give all the meaning to the magical realism that we love so much and fall in love.

Learn more about the life of this great artist, explore a different area of the Historic Center of Cartagena and inspire yourself in the fantastic stories that only Gabo knew how to write as if it were a chronicle of an announced death!



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Duration 2.5 hours

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Live tour guide

Spanish

Wheelchair accessible

from € 12.21 € 9.76 per person
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About this experience

Itinerary
  • Starting location:
  • Santo Domingo Square
  • Iglesia de Santo Toribio
  • Visit
  • Parque Fernández Madrid
  • Visit
  • San Diego, Cartagena
  • Visit
  • Sofitel Legend Santa Clara Cartagena
  • Visit
  • HOTEL MAKONDO
  • Visit
  • Casa Gabriel García Márquez
  • Visit
  • Finish at:
  • Casa de Gabriel García Márquez
  • Main stop
  • For reference only. Itineraries are subject to change.
  • Highlights
  • Fantastic stories inspirations by Gabo
  • La Merced Monastery and Adolfo Mejía Theater
  • Society
  • Classes and Local Cultural Dynamics
  • Plaza and Cloister of San Diego
  • Life
  • Novels and Cinema "Marqueciano"
  • Includes
  • Professional guide in Spanish.
  • Precise and objective knowledge of Gabo's literature and life.
  • Tour of essential places in the San Diego neighborhood
  • Benefits and discounts with our recommended friends if you show the handle that we give you at the end of the tour, exclusive to our participants.
  • Recommendations of local stores for lunch, buy coffee, souvenirs and more.
  • Drinks, food or souvenirs.
  • Transport from and to your hotel.
  • Transport on the tour. We will be walking and making rest stops.
  • Inputs or income. We will not take you to places where sudden additional charges are applied!
  • Exclusive tour guide. Remember that this is a shared tour, we are sure that you will know new and incredible people.
  • Not suitable for
  • Children under 10 years
  • People over 65 years

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