Plaza de la Aduana
Colonial square built around the founder's house turned customs office, once ransomed off pirates.
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Plaza de la Aduana in Cartagena opens with cannon fire rolling in from the harbor on July 25, 1544, when a French corsair sailed into an undefended bay and the city's founder Pedro de Heredia barricaded himself inside the house that once stood on this square. The guide follows what his family had to do to make the raiders leave, and how that same house was later turned into the Royal Customs House that gave the plaza its name. Stand in what was once its front yard.
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