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Banks are closed until tuesday, "Porro" music playing everywhere: The "Fiestas de la Independencia de Cartagena" - (Cartagena Indepence Festival) has started. Today, Thursday, is the day of the biggest parade, "El Bando". Carnaval groups from all over Colombia as well as the local beauty queens will present themselves to the public: Best place to watch, drink and dance is Avenida Santander, the main street between Cartagena's city wall and the sea. The party starts at 2PM and will continue until next monday.
The "Fiestas de la Independencia de Cartagena" is an local event, not no be mixed with the national beauty competition, "Concurso Nacional de Belleza". Both events are held at the same time. While the first is an popular event held as a tribute to the independence of Cartagena, the second is an commercial event which ends in the most important national TV show on monday night, when international stars accompany the coronation of next Miss Colombia. - The popular "Indepence Queen" of Cartagena will be crowned already one day before in an mass event on Plazas de los Coches.
The fiesta of Cartagena is wild: If you want to take part don't take cameras, watches and wear old clothes. Peolpe throw paint, oil, powder and fireworks. While todays "Bando" is the biggest and most popular event of the festival there are several other parades during the next days. The most tradional and maybe most beautiful parade is the "Cabilde de Getsemaní" on Sunday. The parade ends on Plaza Trinidad, where exactly 196 years ago the indedepence of Cartagena was declared.
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