Plaza de Santo Domingo
Bronze reclining nude by a famed Colombian sculptor, its polished chest rubbed daily for luck outside a crooked colonial bell tower.
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This guide to Plaza de Santo Domingo in Cartagena introduces Gertrudis, a reclining bronze woman by the Colombian sculptor Fernando Botero, cast in a Florence foundry and donated to his home country in 2000, set against the crooked bell tower rising behind her. It traces the tower's own troubled construction at the end of the 1500s, when walls cracked under a heavy roof and the structure came out visibly tilted despite added buttresses. Locals still tell a darker tale of the devil wrenching at its foundations, furious over Inquisition-era executions once staged in this square.
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