Las Bóvedas
Bombproof colonial storeroom of twenty-three arched vaults, later a wartime dungeon, now craft shops along the old sea wall.
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Las Bovedas in Cartagena traces one wall through very different jobs. Built by engineer Antonio de Arevalo in 1798 as a bombproof gunpowder and grain store sealed behind walls fifteen meters thick, the guide follows it into Cartagena's nineteenth-century wars, when soldiers began locking prisoners inside those same watertight vaults, with the tide rising around their legs. The vaults sit right against the old sea wall, hour after hour of high tide once seeping through them.
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