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Under the title 'The Political and Historical Meaning of the Cantonal Uprising of Cartagena 1873', the chronicler Luis Miguel Pérez Adán gave a lecture on Thursday, July 12, at the Palace Hall where he explained, using historical data, what really it happened that day of 1873 in which the Cantonal uprising began.
The Canton was a movement that changed the national sociopolitical spectrum and now, 145 years later, still the citizens of Cartagena do not know the facts as they really happened.
An example of this is the anecdote that has been set in the popular imaginary about the Turkish flag used to be hoisted in the Galeras Castle and the performance of the volunteer who dyed the white crescent with his blood, when in fact the flag was already red
Perez Adam made an exhaustive x-ray of what happened in those days, and recalled some of the cantonal proposals that are unknown and that were pioneers such as the defense of universal suffrage, the separation of the Church and the State, the condemnation of the death penalty or the commitment to federalism.
To the conference on the proclamation of the Canton of Cartagena came a large audience that filled the hall of ceremonies of the Palace Hall among which was the Councilor for Education, Culture and Youth, David Martinez, councilors of the Municipal Corporation and also attended the coordinator of Heritage of the city of Cartagena, Mari Carmen Berrocal.
The conference of the chronicler was framed within the events organized to commemorate the 145th anniversary of the proclamation of the Canton of Cartagena, which will also include the rise to the Watchtower and raised the flag at 6:00 am.
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Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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