LA BOCA DEL PUENTE
Arcaded colonial walkway lined with vendors selling handmade tropical candies on a former slave-trading plaza.
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La Boca del Puente in Cartagena walks through the many names of a small triangular plaza behind the clock gate of Puerta del Reloj, Plaza del Juez, then Plaza de la Yerba, then Plaza de los Coches. The guide traces its darkest use, as the city's open-air slave market, and the vendors who eventually filled the same arcades with cocada de coco, tamarind balls and muñecas de leche. Lean in near the stalls and you'll catch cinnamon and toasted coconut on the air.
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