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The extraordinary Government Board, which was held on July 3 under the chairmanship of the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, has approved the presentation of the rehabilitation project of the Roman Amphitheater to the call of 2018 of the cultural 1.5% of the Ministry of Promotion.

The project is called 'Intervention in the southern quadrant of the Roman Amphitheater, consolidation of the double ring wall Plaza de Toros-Phase 2' and will involve the consolidation of 30 meters of the double wall of the bullring, from the current intervention (in the southern area in front of the Marina Hospital) to the Autopsy Pavilion.

The amount of this project is 400,000 euros and the municipal contribution would be 100,000 euros.

"It is a new technical project with a vocation for the future that, due to its characteristics, is perfectly adapted to the requirements of the Ministry of Public Works", highlighted the Councilor for Heritage, David Martínez.

The project presented is a very important step in the urban regeneration of the environment, since the Plaza de Toros is in technical ruin since 1986 and in 2010 it was necessary to sustain it with a complex scaffolding system due to the degree of deterioration that had been achieved. its structure.

The Plaza de Toros lacks its own foundation and the coexistence between it and the Amphitheater is possible in a totally respectful way for both, as is being demonstrated in the project that has been carried out since February 2018, consisting of the consolidation of 15 meters of double wall in the Bullring and the recovery of the minor axis in the southern area of ​​the Amphitheater, by excavating a set of service rooms with elevations of 3.80 meters, which retain their original vaulted roof and which are known in detail by the textual and graphic documentation of the mid-eighteenth century.

Councilman David Martinez has stressed that the implementation of the project presented at 1.5% cultural allow several subsequent actions.

"In the first place, and below the consolidated walls, we could proceed to the archaeological excavation of the entire southern quadrant of the Amphitheater.

In addition, and parallel to the excavations, the Autopsy Pavilion, which is municipal property, would be adapted as an interpretation center of the Amphitheater in which an informative exhibition of the archaeological process and the findings that may have taken place could be installed. "

With this project, Cartagena would be part of the five cities of the Iberian Peninsula that have theater and amphitheater, only four of them retaining both buildings with monumental elevations, as is our case.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena