Convent of Santa Cruz de la Popa
Hilltop colonial monastery of gold-laced chapels and a legend of a demon cast off the cliff.
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This guide to the Convent of Santa Cruz de la Popa, on a hilltop above Cartagena, opens with an odd fact: founded in 1607, it stood without a single monk for over a century. It follows the legend of a friar casting a demon goat off the cliff below, then turns to how pirates and Spanish gunners failed to destroy the place, only for Colombia's own independence to empty it out when Bolivar's soldiers turned the cloister into a barracks. Listen for the story of a cannonball said to pass a window where Bolivar himself stood.
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