Trips to Colombia

TRIPS TO COLOMBIA: SANTA MARTA

Santa Marta, present capital of the department of Magdalena, is one of the tourist but great ports of the country, that offers the comfort of a great metropolis and the enchantment of the old cultures that inhabited the country.
Santa Marta was founded on 1.525 by Rodrigo de Bastidas, being the oldest city of the constructed ones by the Spaniards in Colombia.

Thence the campaign of conquest of the New Kingdom of Granada went ahead and in spite of to have been displaced by Cartagena de Indias like main port on the Caribbean during the colony, Santa Marta was head of the Interior of the country at the time.

Between the interest sites they are: the Cathedral, one of the oldest works of the Colony, its construction began in century XVI; at the moment the rest of the Bastidas founder rest there. They are in addition the convent to Santo Domingo, the church of San Francisco and the House of the Customs, soothes of the Anthropological and Ethnological Museum.

It is possible to emphasize in addition the Villa to San Pedro Alejandrino, beautiful town constructed in century XVIII where the liberator died Simon Bolivar in 1.830. At the moment it works for delight of the tourist, the Museum Bolivariano de Contemporary Arte and the Tayrona Museum.

Santa Marta realizes in July the traditional Celebration of the Sea. They are several days of music and joy during which swimming and the aquatic sports are due to demonstrate to the abilities for. Santa Marta is the departure point to visit majors both interest sites: the National Park Natural Tayrona and the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta.

DATA

Temperature average: 28 °C

Airport: Airport Simon Bolivar

Main Sites of Interest:

- The Cathedral

- Museum of Gold or Marries of the Customs

- Villa of San Pedro Alejandrino

- The rodadero

- Aquarius Museum of the Sea

- Commercial Center the Emporio

- Commercial Center the Boat