La Serrezuela Mall

This guide to La Serrezuela Mall in Cartagena asks how a carpenter with no architecture training came to build one of the city's grandest gathering places. It follows Marcial Calvo, who studied bullrings in Caracas and Maracay before raising the original wooden ring almost entirely by hand after the War of the Thousand Days destroyed the one that stood here before. Its 1930 opening drew two of the era's most famous bullfighters into the ring, and the building later doubled as a circus theater showing films and plays between fights.