Cartagena receives the City title in 1574
Cartagena de Indias, with time, has become an important port for
the Spanish crown. And more, there were more and more jealous
looks from rivals that desired obtaining pieces of the richness
that the city owned.
Its port was well situated and secured, close from the mouth of
the Magdalena river which is the principle entrance to the New
Kingdom of Grenade, its proximity with the isthmus of Panama
where all the treasures of Peru pass, its
strategic emplacement in the heart of the Caribbean Sea, gave
him the title of “city”, given by the king Felipe II in 1574 and
after that was accorded a coat of arms with “two red lions on
their feet holding hands and holding between them a cross, on
top there’s a gold emplacement and over the cross is found a
cross between the lion’s head with their vegetation.”
The next year, in 1575, another title was given to the city:
“Really noble and faithful” for the work recognition
accomplished by the population of Cartagena towards the Spanish
crown.
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