Casa Museo Rafael Núñez
Wooden Caribbean mansion where a scandal-shadowed president lived, ruled from, and died.
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This guide to Casa Museo Rafael Nunez in Cartagena begins in a Paris consulate in July 1877, where the Colombian statesman Rafael Nunez marries Soledad Roman, a pharmacist's daughter from Cartagena, while still legally married to another woman back home. It follows the scandal that erupts once word reaches Bogota, with newspapers branding the couple bigamist and concubine and a papal delegate refusing to even meet him, and traces the twelve years before the church finally recognizes the union. This wooden house on the edge of El Cabrero belonged to Soledad's own family long before it became the seat of a presidency.
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