2008 January, Medellin, Colombia
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Romancing the Stone a romantic adventure starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner & the diminuitive Danny De Vito, was based & filmed here |
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Love in the Time of Cholera is a recent film set in Cartagena, and is based on the epidemic that racked the city. Between this & the French looting the riches, Cartagena reduced in status in the region. |
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 Police in golf carts ... |
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 The Gloria |
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 Cartagena is twinned with Middlesborough |
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 mobile library |
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 Statue of Simon Bolivar the Great Liberator |
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England saw the riches that were being plundered from South America by the Spanish & wanted in on the action. |
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In 1586 Frances Drake (latterly to be rewarded with a knighthood for these services), took siege of Cartagena & ransomed the rich city for a huge fortune instead of destroying it. |
 Queen ELizabeth I |
This could be viewed as free marketeering, or as an act of terrorism; thus a peer of the realm and the monarch were engaged in such practices. |
 Sir Francis Drake |
 Fort of San Filipe |
 built in response to increasing attacks |
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 Rare photo of Napoleon at Cartagena |
 Tunnels built with the fort walls to facilitate communication & resourcing |
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 looking over to the new city from the Fort |
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The Inquisition began in the reign of Pope Gregory IX in 1233, expanding across Spain in 1480 & reaching Cartagena in 1610 |
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 'Independent scholars' agree that a lot of inquisitors were not monsters ... |
 merely doing their job, protecting the Catholic Church from perversion & society from a downward slide ... |
 a similar argument used for WWII soldiers |
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 the rack |
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 Carmen Miranda stylie |
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Some of the great & the good of Cartagena |
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 at the helm ... again |
 lovely collection of knots for Linda |
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