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The works for the construction of a landscaped area on the Monte Sacro have begun today April 30 and will be developed, predictably, during the next six months.

The budget, which at first was 428,000 euros has increased to 480,000 euros due to the discovery of a Roman pool that delayed the start of the works.

The mayor of Infrastructure, Juan Pedro Torralba, has been this morning at Monte Sacro with the municipal coordinator of Archaeological Heritage, Mari Carmen Berrocal;

and the technical director of the work, Ricardo Carrillo.

The mayor has indicated that they have received authorization from Archaeological Heritage to cover the pool, which will preserve its status, and will be signaled accordingly so that visitors know what was there.

The objective in creating this garden area is according to Torralba "create an appealing area" and provide the urbanizable land attractive with the aim of advancing the improvement of the Historic District.

For her part, Mari Carmen Berrocal has warned that the area had never been archaeologically intervened and after the work they have discovered that the archaeological levels are well below the levels on which they are going to make use.

However, as the works interventions were approaching the top, came the quadrangular pulete water collection of Roman times.

Berrocal has indicated that the archaeological discoveries correspond to a stepped residential area with several terraces.

He has also indicated that at the top there has been a wall with the original lucido and a collapse of the lucido from which the painting in elevation could be recovered in a very productive way for the city, which could later be placed in a museum or where appropriate.

Ricardo Carrillo has highlighted the complexity of the project, due to the need to combine building land with archaeological remains, and has shown the objective of creating a more accessible plaza that connects the streets of Sister Francisca de Armendáriz and Villalba Larga and that connects in a future to an urbanization or an archaeological park.

Finally, he pointed out that unless new archaeological remains are found, the works can be carried out uninterruptedly in the next six months.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena