5 Free things to do in Santa Marta

Here are the best free things to do in Santa Marta: 5 activities that will easily fit into your budget because they are free!

Published 2022-12-29 09:48:42

Santa Marta has the best plans for you and your family. It is a city where you can enjoy its diversity in all its elements, even in the culture reflected by its people; Santa Marta is more than a destination. It welcomes all its visitors and makes them feel at home. 

This colorful city has activities for all preferences, from immersing yourself in its beaches to encountering nature and feeling the singing of the emblematic birds of this part of the Caribbean region. You can't miss the opportunity to come to Santa Marta and miss these 5 free plans it has for you. 

1. Free Tour

This is an excellent way to know the city's streets, assisted by a local guide, better than walking through it. With the Free Tour, you will receive a cultural and historical experience through the main streets of the oldest city in Colombia and its most important monuments.

This Free Tour is led through the streets of the historic center of the city of Santa Marta, which begins at the facilities of Casa Marina (Carrera 1c. No. 22 - 19) and you go to the following scenarios:

  • Santa Marta's Bay Promenade

  • Bolivar's Square

  • San Francisco's Square 

  • The Cathedral Alley 

  • Cathedral Square

  • Mail's Alley  

  • Santander's Park

  • San Juan de Dios Chapel

2. Republic Bank

Colombia's central bank has structured an artistic work conceived as a long-term project that seeks to manage the nation's cultural heritage, promote access to knowledge, and consolidate the sense of citizenship. 

This cultural project aims to create spaces designed according to the vocation and needs of its region and different audiences. 

So, if you are visiting this city, you like history, being immersed in the world of exploring new worlds and gaining new knowledge; this is a perfect plan, and better yet, admission is free.

3. Gold Museum

Perhaps you have asked yourself this question: Where do we come from? How did our culture come about? and who were our ancestors?

Santa Marta has streets, places, and buildings that take you to live a past full of history! 

The Gold Museum, also called Old Customs Office, is a site that has been created and designed for the whole community, both locals and visitors. This site is told a past, and a present lived, is our most precious ancestral heritage of the entire department of Magdalena, the Sierra Nevada, and Santa Marta; joins to tell the diversity and the great cultural richness that shelters us. 

Your entrance is free, visit the Gold Museum!

4. Picnic at Cabo Tortuga Beach

How about spending an afternoon sharing moments? You can be with your family, friends, and your sweetheart. What if accompanied by a blanket, sitting on the sand of the beach, some good wine and telling the best of life, laughing and enjoying the best moments that Santa Marta has to offer.

Cabo Tortuga, a quiet beach with a gorgeous sunset, is located on the way to the airport; from Santa Marta, it is about 20 - 25 minutes by car and from the Rodadero 10 - 15 minutes.  Can you imagine it? Because we do, and better yet, it's free.

 5. Sunsets at the Marina

Where to be and experience one of the best sunsets?

Santa Marta is a small city that offers you the best places to visit. Besides that, it shelters all its visitors treats them as its own; it allows them to live the best of its culture, gastronomy, and even better, some of the best sunsets in the country. Being here and not experiencing it is like not having been there. Therefore, every visitor in the city must live one of the best experiences that this spectacular city gives us, apart from its colorful streets and unique beaches. 

One of the places where you can be and live a sunset is in the Marina de Santa Marta, a perfect place open to the public where you can experience this spectacle of colors, so you just have to be there to tell the story!

After everything we just told you, you certainly must know these places in Santa Marta, and to get to know them, you just have to contact us through our WhatsApp (+ 57 3108720384) or our social networks sociales (@visitsantamarta).

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