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Charleston Santa Teresa Cartagena
Cartagena, Colombia · Independent · Core Luxury
Cartagena's old Carmelite cloister of Santa Teresa, raised in the early 1600s inside the walled city, now sleeps about ninety guests between colonial stone and a later republican wing. The convent was expropriated in the 1860s, used as a barracks, jail, and school, then restored as a hotel looking over the Caribbean from the Santa Teresa bastion. The courtyards are the present tense of a Carmelite house.
- 90 rooms
- Opened 2010
- Neighborhood: San Diego
About Charleston Santa Teresa Cartagena
- Doña María de Barros y Montalvo endowed Cartagena's first Reformed Carmelite cloister here in the early 1600s.
- After expropriation in the 1860s the convent passed through barracks, jail, school, pasta factory, and police headquarters before the hotel restoration.
- Rooms split between a seventeenth-century colonial wing and a twentieth-century republican wing inside the UNESCO walled city.
History
The Cloister of Santa Teresa began in the early seventeenth century as Cartagena's first Reformed Carmelite convent, commissioned by Doña María de Barros y Montalvo. Expropriated in the 1860s, the house later served as a barracks, jail, girls' school, and police headquarters before restoration as a hotel in the walled city's San Diego quarter, colonial wing against a later republican wing, looking toward the Caribbean from the Santa Teresa bastion.
The setting
Charleston Santa Teresa sits in San Diego inside Cartagena's walled city, with Museo del Oro Zenú, the Museum of Cartagena de Indias, and Catedral de Santa Catalina de Alejandría essentially at the door. The ramparts at sunset and Plaza Santo Domingo are the evening circuit. Castillo San Felipe de Barajas is about seven minutes on foot.
Restaurants and bars
- Harry's Cartagena — Restaurant
Amenities
- Spa
- Pool
- Hot tub
- Fitness center
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