Old City vs Bocagrande: Where to Elope in Cartagena
The walled colonial jewel of the historic centre against the gleaming high-rise beachfront. Two Cartagenas, one steeped in centuries and one thoroughly modern, and two very different elopements.
You settle on Cartagena and picture only the famous walled city.
Right beside it, a wall of gleaming towers offers a completely different day.
The Old City is colonial romance behind stone walls; Bocagrande is modern beachfront glamour. Two very different Cartagena elopements.
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The historic centre is a UNESCO walled colonial jewel: cobblestone lanes, flower-draped balconies, pastel facades, plazas, and the great stone ramparts, all glowing at golden hour. It is romantic, timeless, and steeped in centuries, the reason most couples come to Cartagena.
The walled Old City
The historic centre is a UNESCO walled colonial jewel: cobblestone lanes, flower-draped balconies, pastel facades, plazas, and the great stone ramparts, all glowing at golden hour. It is romantic, timeless, and steeped in centuries, the reason most couples come to Cartagena.
Bocagrande
Bocagrande is the modern face of Cartagena: a strip of gleaming high-rises along a Caribbean beach, a skyline sometimes likened to Miami. It gives contemporary glamour, beach access, and dramatic cityscape frames, a sleek counterpoint to the colonial stone.
Choose the Old City for colonial romance, Bocagrande for modern beach glamour, or pair them across a day. As your Elopement Curator I plan the day, coordinate the ceremony, and both shoot and film it. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, the two are the historic and the modern faces of Cartagena.
Colonial or modern? Let the Elopement Compass choose your Cartagena →
