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The excavations of the Roman Amphitheater discover three perfectly preserved service rooms, with their vaulted roofs, which can be visited at Christmas.
This has been one of the advances offered by the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón;
the mayor of Archaeological Heritage and Tourism, David Martínez;
the Coordinator of Archaeological Heritage of the City of Cartagena, Mari Carmen Berrocal;
along with the rest of the technical team that are part of the archaeological project.
The archaeological intervention below the consolidated wall of the Plaza de Toros, centered on the southern minor axis of the Amphitheater, has shown three rooms of services, called jails, preserved in an exceptional state, with its original vaulted roofs.
The rooms were documented in an anonymous drawing from the mid-18th century and the ceilings were documented in an archaeological intervention carried out in 1999, but the good condition in which they were found was unknown.
The good preservation of the prisons is only comparable in Hispania with the amphitheater of Itálica.
The central room has a width of 3 meters and communicates with the other two sides, through entrances of 1.80 meters in height.
The mayor of Cartagena wanted to highlight the importance of these findings and the enhancement of this Roman monument of the first century BC, "remember that there are only 18 amphitheaters documented archaeologically in the Iberian Peninsula, and of them only 7 have been subject to archaeological analysis with some depth.
Of this small group only 6 have monumental remains, and because of the latest discoveries, Cartagena is placed among the first places ".
Cartagena being one of the only 4 cities that have a monumental theater and amphitheater.
The mayor also stressed that next to the 4-meter elevation of the currently excavated rooms also highlights the 11-meter elevation documented in the cut of Gisbert Street, documented elevation above the level of the ancient sand.
OPENED BY WORKS
The mayor of Archaeological Heritage has explained that the actions in archaeological heritage will have an immediate social reversion "as a place that can be visited during the excavation work", so that the citizen will follow the excavation process and visualize how the structures that will appear they have been covered for centuries. "
What from the City Council have called 'Open for works'.
The visits are scheduled for December 14, 15, 21, 22, 26, 27, and 28.
And in January for days 2, 3 and 4. There will be four passes in the morning at 10:00, 11:00, 12:00 and 13:00 hours, with groups of 30 people and with an approximate duration of 45 minute visit
Reservations can be made in the Municipal Archaeological Museum Enrique Escudero de Castro.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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