Sofitel Legend Santa Clara Cartagena

The Sofitel Legend Santa Clara occupies a former seventeenth-century convent, distinguished by a deceptively simple, iron-gated facade that shields an expansive complex of courtyards and colonial architecture. Built in sixteen twenty-one for the Order of the Poor Clares, the building housed nuns for over two centuries before its closure in eighteen sixty-one. Today, the property blends original colonial structures with a later Republican-style wing, functioning as a hotel that preserves features like confessionals and stone crypts within its current layout.