#1 of 23 things to do in Cartagena
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fabricciocartone says:
These recently created holidays take place in the last fortnight of September and consists in the recreation of the history of the city in the period between its foundation by Asdrúbal in 227 B.C. and its conquest by the Roman, Publio Cornelio Escipión in 209 B.C. Within the varied programme of …
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#2 of 23 things to do in Cartagena
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fabricciocartone says:
This is the base of all archeological activity in the city and its district. Opened in 1982, the museum is built over the late 4th century Roman necropolis of San Antón; it contains one of the most important collections of inscriptions in the country.
Constituye el centro neurálgico de las acti…
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#3 of 23 things to do in Cartagena
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fabricciocartone says:
The theatre was discovered, quite by chance, in 1987. The rows of seats were built into the northern side of the Concepción hill. The commemorative inscriptions indicate that it was built in the late 1st century B.C., the period of maximum urban development in the Roman colony. Right on the Roma…
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#4 of 23 things to do in Cartagena
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fabricciocartone says:
On either side of a stretch of Roman road lie the remains of two dwellings dating from the first century BC. On the sides you can see the pavements, the walls with the entrance threshold and the Opus signimum decorated flooring, but the most impressive feature is the fresco painted decoration of the…
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#5 of 23 things to do in Cartagena
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fabricciocartone says:
The recent discovery of the Roman theatre a few yards from the rampart is the key to the date of construction of these solid walls, which include materials from the Byzantine period. In the mid 6th century A.C. Byzantine rule revitalized the city and produced upon redevelopment. Part of the foundat…
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#6 of 23 things to do in Cartagena
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fabricciocartone says:
Installed in the Park Artillery, reflected in its three galleries various aspects related to the history of this weapon in the city through drawings, models models, documents, weapons, uniforms and paintings-such as portraits of the gallery Colonels in which it appears everyone who has commanded the…
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#7 of 23 things to do in Cartagena
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fabricciocartone says:
This is one of the best archaeological sites kept in the city, and it is composed of the rests of two public buildings from the Roman times in the Cartago-nova area dated in the 1st century A.C. It could be one of the first seats used for religious purposes. Identified as a meeting place for the pri…
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#8 of 23 things to do in Cartagena
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fabricciocartone says:
The Carnival festivities has deep popular roots in Cartagena especially in the second half of the 19th Century, which were truncated when they were prohibited at the end of the Civil War. With the restoration of democracy and especially from 1981, this secular festivity was recuperated, currently, …
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#9 of 23 things to do in Cartagena
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fabricciocartone says:
The rampart was discovered in 1989, on the south side of the hill of San José or Aletes, as it was known in Roman times. The construction dates back to 227 B.C., with the founding of the Punic city and the conversion of Cartagena (then called Qart-Hadast) into the capital of the Carthaginians the…
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#10 of 23 things to do in Cartagena
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fabricciocartone says:
Excavated in 1968, the square is the site of a paved Roman road, the main thoroughfare through the city, linking the port to the forum and a series of thermal baths stretching along Honda street as far as Molinete hill. The site still preserves the foundation of a former arcade.
Es un conjunto i…
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#11 of 23 things to do in Cartagena
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fabricciocartone says:
The elements outlined in the Museum's facilities are due to disposals and donations as a repository of most residents of the town, selflessly, have put their grain of sand.
There are an estimated few thousand exposed elements, configured by: vehicles, machinery, tools, furniture, costumes, utensi…
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#12 of 23 things to do in Cartagena
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fabricciocartone says:
The fort, which was built during the 1860s to defend the interior of the harbour, the city and the Arsenal from the attack of enemy fleets, is located at one of the coastal points which flank the harbour entrance.
The building, of neoclassical style, explains the importance of Cartagena in the Medi…
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#13 of 23 things to do in Cartagena
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fabricciocartone says:
El museo abrió sus puertas el 8 de julio de 1986, de estilo modernista. El edificio es de planta triangular, disponiendo de un patio destinado también a la exhibición de fondos, así como una segunda planta añadida en su parte central y esquina sur. Dispone de 1.602 metros cuadrados, de los que …
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#14 of 23 things to do in Cartagena
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fabricciocartone says:
The hill of Molinete, one of the five that are mentioned by the historian Polibio in the 2nd Century B.C. as the seat of the Palace of Asdrubal, constitutes one of the great archaeological reserves of ancient Carthago-Nova. Among the archaeological dis-coveries worth mention are the remains of a «…
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#15 of 23 things to do in Cartagena
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fabricciocartone says:
The amphitheatre is situated beneath the present bullring, erected in 1854. One of the eldest monuments of its kind in Hispania, it was built in the Ist cen-tury B.C., on the model of Italic precursors. Some of its buttresses that extend beyond the bullring have been excavated and can be seen.
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