Sofitel Legend Santa Clara Cartagena
Colonial convent turned hotel with a courtyard pool ringed by centuries-old stone arches.
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This guide to the Sofitel Legend Santa Clara in Cartagena starts in 1949, when a young unknown reporter named Gabriel García Márquez climbed into a newly opened crypt beneath this old convent and found a tombstone with no surname, and a coil of hair beside the skull. It follows how that visit worked its way into his novel Of Love and Other Demons, and how the hotel bar built over the same crypt still bears his name. Then it steps back into the convent's two hundred and fifty years of cloistered life, before reaching the courtyard where guests now swim ringed by the same stone arches the nuns once walked in silence.
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