Boutique hotel in Cartagena Ā· Historic Center of Cartagena

Where art lives and history breathes

Five rooms in an 18th-century house museum

Upon crossing the gate

A museum that you can inhabit

The wooden gate opens onto a coral stone courtyard that has watched Cartagena for three centuries. Light filters through the colonial arches and falls on original works by Fernando Botero, Ana Mercedes Hoyos, David Manzur, and Ɖdgar Negret. Here, you have breakfast, you sleep, and you live among those works—not behind a cord, but an arm's reach away: a museum that, for once, can be inhabited.

Five rooms, five works

The table and the garden

Breakfast is served under the arches of the garden

Every morning breakfast is set up in the central garden, under a piece of art that would be behind a velvet rope anywhere else. In the evening, the terrace overlooks the tiled roofs of the walled city, with the wood-fired oven lit.

It's not decoration

The collection is lived,

not just contemplated

This house was not decorated: it was curated. Each room, corridor, and bedroom houses an original piece by Botero, Hoyos, Manzur, or Negret—gathered to coexist with those who stay, not to be seen behind glass. Just 150 meters away, in Plaza de Santo Domingo, the Gertrudis of Botero waits in the street: the collection begins before crossing the gate.

How to Get There

In the heart of the walled city. 150 m to Plaza de Santo Domingo and the Gertrudis of Botero. 400 m to the Sanctuary of San Pedro Claver. 1.5 km to the Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas.

Illustrated map of the Historic Center of Cartagena showing the location of Casa Santiago Botero next to Plaza de Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo Street # 3-72, Historic Center, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia