5 places to spend an afternoon.
Plaza de la Trinidad is the neighborhood's living room - pull up a plastic chair on the church steps at sundown, buy a cold Club Colombia from a street cart, and watch the dominoes and the tourists collide. Callejón Angosto is a short walk away for murals. Everything you need is within five blocks.
3 things to do, 2 shops, all in Getsemaní.
Getsemaní's best moves are outdoors and unticketed: sloths dozing over the domino tables at Centenario Park, champeta spilling out of Callejón Angosto at dusk, the steps of Trinidad filling up by 7pm. Walk slow and look up.
The heart of Getsemaní, where locals gather on the church steps every evening and street vendors sell cold beer and empanadas. Best people-watching in the city after sundown, no contest.
A narrow alley exploding with murals and champeta beats drifting from open doorways. Neighbors pull plastic chairs out at sunset and the whole block becomes a living room.
A leafy park where sloths hang in the trees above old men slapping dominoes on stone tables. Grab a cholado from the cart and look up.
Getsemaní's shopping is small but pointed: Ábaco Libros y Café, inside the walled city a short walk from Getsemaní, for Spanish-language titles and a real espresso, St. Dom on Calle Santo Domingo for 70-plus Colombian designers inside a colonial mansion. Two stops, both worth the walk from Plaza de la Trinidad.
Shelves packed with Spanish-language titles you won't find at any chain, plus coffee worth sitting down for. A serious bookstore that has earned its reputation over the years.
A 300-year-old colonial house on Carrera 3, complete with a greenhouse in the middle, holding Cartagena's first design concept store. Only Colombian and Latin American names here - Johanna Ortiz has her own shop-in-shop, and expect $600-plus dresses. The founders' own resort-wear label, Azulu, rounds it out.
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