Muelle de la Bodeguita
Working pier turned tourist dock, once the city's customs warehouse for colonial trade and railroad cargo.
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This guide to the Muelle de la Bodeguita in Cartagena opens with a boast about casks rolling side by side on the first wharf on this shore in 1535. It moves on to the colonial counting-house wharf beside the old customs wall, then to the railway to Calamar and the river boats, canoes and island schooners that tied up here. Best heard standing on the boards, facing the old city wall.
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