Café del Mar Ltda.
Wall-top terrace over the Caribbean, once famous for its unobstructed sunset views before a public-access court ruling closed it.
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This guide to Café del Mar in Cartagena follows a bar built in 2002 by a German, Peter Kreill, and a Colombian, Carlos Sánchez García, on the widest bastion of the city's four-hundred-year-old sea wall, the Baluarte de Santo Domingo. Under a deal with the school that maintains the walls, they paid rent to run tables and chairs on public stone in exchange for keeping the area clean. A neighbor with an old grudge against Kreill, reportedly over a rooftop terrace, filed a lawsuit that argued the sunset over public stone belonged to everyone, and the case crawled through the courts for a decade.
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