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Discovering Cartagena

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In the days when respectable women didn’t parade around the streets it was, nonetheless, essential to keep an eye on what was going on.

So, the solution in many Cartagena houses was the provision of a large enclosed balcony, or mirador, where respectable women could sit and pass disrespectful comments on those passing by.

These balconies can still be seen on many of the houses of the city and they are commonly included as design elements in the modern buildings that are now being constructed in sympathy with the older structures.

Apparently, the balconies were also useful in courtship as the young ladies of the town could sit there, no doubt with a mother or aunt inside the room, and be serenaded or chatted up by the young bucks in the street below.

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