Getsemani
Working-class harbor district where artisans forged bells, cannons, and an uprising against Spanish rule.
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This guide to Getsemani in Cartagena opens with a question: who cast the bell that still rings from the nearby church of San Roque? The same craftsman, Pedro Romero, ran the Spanish crown's naval foundry on Calle Larga, forging bells and cannons by day. On the night of November 11, 1811, it follows him gathering the free and enslaved artisans of the neighborhood, mostly black and mixed-race men who worked the forges and docks, and arming them with weapons seized from his own workshop.
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