Portal de Cartagena
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The port is experiencing a veritable avalanche of cruise these last days of October.
Five cruise ships with more than 14,000 tourists will stop in the city until next Monday.
This morning the first of them, the Celebrity Eclipse, Celebrity Cruises company, which has visited us three times since September and has brought nearly 3,000 tourists on board.
This morning visitors have walked through the streets of downtown refilling shops, bars and terraces for a few hours.
As usual, have been received by a Tourist Information Point of the City of Cartagena ladder walk them informed of the main attractions.
On Friday 28 will be the turn of the Noordam Dutch ship coming into port with about two thousand tourists who will be in town between ten o'clock and six o'clock in the afternoon.
But the true giants of the sea will see during the weekend.
The Mariner of the Seas, Royal Caribbean, will on Saturday 29, with more than 3,000 passengers. Its impressive dimensions, 311 feet long and approximately 138,000 tons, making it one of the world's largest cruise ship.
More capacity still has his brother Liberty of the Seas, also of Royal Caribbean, calling at Cartagena on Sunday October 30 with about 4,000 passengers on board.
The ship will be in town from eleven o'clock until seven o'clock.
The Liberty is considered the second largest cruise ship in the world (behind sister ships Oasis of the Seas and Freedom of the Seas).
It weighs 160,000 tons, has a length of 340 meters and a width of 40 meters.
But besides its size, its price is also spectacular, as they build cost about $ 800 million.
Another great ship of the Royal Caribbean Voyager of the Seas, with over 3,000 passengers, will call at the port 31 on Monday, closing an intense month of October that has filled the city with visitors.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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