Casa del Marqués de Valdehoyos - sede alterna del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
Colonial merchant mansion with a courtyard cloister and a persistent ghost legend in white.
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This guide to the Casa del Marques de Valdehoyos in Cartagena opens with a ghost story locals still tell after dark, a woman in a pale, drifting dress who crosses the mezzanine and vanishes. It traces the mansion back to the marques who built it around 1765 on a fortune from flour and, more grimly, from trafficking enslaved people through the city's harbor, and to the courtyard cloister he modeled on the city's convents. Nobody agrees on who the woman is supposed to be, only whose house she is said to haunt, and the guide follows how that uncertainty has attached itself to the building ever since.
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