During the Republic, Cartagena de Indias was slowly decaying and as years went by it would lose its vitality and superiority it held during the Colony. From a powerful and well protected commercial port it became a simple villa whose forts, bulwarks, and walls were silent witnesses of the decline of the city. They would only be relics, memories of a glorious past that would not repeat and stay forgotten.
In the XXth century the city would be reborn from among the ashes to reaffirm as one of the most influential in the future of Colombia, converted in an industrial, commercial and touristic port, among the best in the Caribbean.
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