Plaza Pierino Gallo in Cartagena - Upstairs

Pierino Gallo Shopping Plaza (pronounced Pierre-EENO GUY-oh) is located just beyond the Caribe Hotel is a two-story structure with wide stairs leading to the open-air Upstairs Plaza. This plaza is recognized by its bright multicolored awnings, and shops that offer the products of interest to a visitor: handicrafts, emeralds, leather goods, precolumbian art, coffee, and hand rolled cigars.

Refreshments and clean bathrooms are available, and there you will at last find refuge from the persistent street vendors. When a cruise ship is in town there is a carnival atmosphere. The man with the sloth and the brightly dressed fruit sellers pose for pictures with the visitors.

This shopping venue boasts the biggest single concentration of emerald and emerald jewelry stores anywhere in the world. There is literally an emerald there for everyone!

Seek this place out if you are looking for Leather, Coffee And..., Clavia Precolumbian Art, and Temptations. And don't miss Mr. Emerald.