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The Castillo San Felipe de Barajas is a fortification located in the Colombian city of Cartagena de Indias. It is located on a hill called San Lázaro and was built in 1657 during the Spanish colonial period. In 1984, Unesco included the castle San Felipe de Barajas within the list of World Heritage. It is considered one of the seven wonders of Colombia for being one of the largest structures built in Colombian territory.

The clock besides being the representative symbol of Cartagena is the entrance to the city. This tower was established in the 19th century and soon there is a statue commemorating Pedro de Heredia who was the founder of the city of Cartagena. Entering through it, the main gate of the city which is symbolized by the clock, visitors will find the square in former times which was formerly a slave market.

Rosario Islands (or Corales del Rosario) is a small archipelago made up of about 28 islands, located in one of the national natural parks of Colombia, created to protect one of the most important coral reefs of the Colombian Caribbean coast. The park is an underwater set of ecosystems and communities inhabited mainly by corals that house hundreds of microscopic animals, fish of different shapes and colors, crustaceans, mollusks, anemones, sea urchins and starfish and a wide range of sea birds.

They are located between the Santa Clara and Santa Catalina forts. It is considered the last project of the Colony realized within the walled city. It has 47 arches and 23 vaults. It had military use during the Colony and in the Independence served of jail. After their restoration, they work in shops of crafts and antiques, bars and galleries.

The Court of Penalties of the Holy Office had its main seat here. This building is considered one of the typical houses of the civil architecture of the eighteenth century Cartagena de Indias. They distribute in their interior what at the time were prisons and torture chambers. The Inquisition had as its objective to judge the crimes against the Christian faith, and never recognized innocents.

At the museum's headquarters, Rafael Nunez lived and died, an illustrious Carthaginian who held the presidency four times. From this place came the fundamental ideas that generated one of the greatest political reforms of the country in the nineteenth century: the Constitution of 1886. This led the course of Colombia until 1991, the year in which the current Magna Carta was written.