A Day Trip in Cartago

The city of Cartago was blessed from the day Juana Pereira, a young native girl, went to wash her clothes and came across a modest stone statue of a woman holding a baby in her arms. The legend says that Juana kept trying to take the statuette home, but each time it would disappear and return to the rock where she found it.

Last updated: Oct 22, 2023


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Cartago

When Spanish governor Juan Vasquez de Coronado founded the city of Cartago in 1563, he claimed that he’d never seen a more beautiful valley. The verda....