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Stories Set in Cartagena
Cartagena is a walled colonial port on the Caribbean, all balconies, fortresses and heat. Centuries as a treasure port made it synonymous with romance and adventure, a reputation its most famous novelist sealed for good. Love in the Time of Cholera and Always a Witch both trade on it. Open Cartagena on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 6 books, 6 movies and 1 TV show set in Cartagena.
Love in the Time of Cholera
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is heartbroken, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his…
Always a Witch
A young 17th-century witch time travels to the future to save the man she loves, but first must adjust to present-day Cartagena and defeat a dark rival.
The Trip
The Peinado family intends to spend the more great holidays arranged by the father and husband Alex Peinado. The family also make Hortensia mother and wife Milena Peinado daughter Octavio "Ramayán" Peinado and Carmelita…
The Bone Clocks
Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: a sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as “the radio…
The Trip 2
Lucho Calvo and his family arrive to Cartagena to have a memorable familiar vacation but in his despair to bring a perfect vacation to his family all his plans don't go well.
The Spanish Main
Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene. governed by Don Juan Alvardo Spainish ruler. Alvarado has Laurent…
Férias Trocadas
José Eduardo known as Zé owns a small football school and wins a trip with his wife and blogger daughter to Cartagena in a raffle. José Eduardo known as Edu is a successful businessman who is going on vacation with his…
Cartagena
Muriel is beautiful free-spirited and bed-ridden since a horrific accident. Leo is a drunk middle-aged ex-boxer. Desperate for work and unqualified he interviews for Muriel who hires him to cook and care for her against…
Amor ciego
Poor little rich girl misunderstood by her family takes up with a very ghetto blind man in the slums of Cartagena.
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