Donde Fidel Salsa Bar
Open-air salsa bar built into a colonial clock tower, with live bands and a dance floor that never really empties.
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This guide to Donde Fidel in Cartagena traces a salsa bar that started as a corner spot in Getsemani in 1985, cold beer and real salsa for locals rather than a show for visitors. You'll hear how word spread anyway, how its owner, a lifelong salsa devotee everyone calls Fidel, eventually moved the operation into storefronts built into the base of the old clock tower on Plaza de los Coches, and how the walls now carry decades of photographs with the salsa legends who have passed through. It follows the shift from an easy DJ evening into the moment a live band takes over and the floor fills.
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