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The Community will promote the Roman Theater of Cartagena in the Football Club Cartagena equipment.

The counselor of Transparency, Participation and Spokesperson, Noelia Arroyo, today announced the signing of a new agreement with the sports entity that will allow "promote the Roman Theater of Cartagena and its museum inside and outside the region."

Arroyo, who visited the theater with the president of FC Cartagena, Paco Belmonte, the director of the Museum, Elena Ruiz, and the staff of the football club, explained that "this tourism promotion is another step in the recovery and dissemination of the heritage of the Region of Murcia and combines the impetus to the image of a symbol such as the Roman Theater and its museum, with the support of professional football. "

The councilor stressed that in the cities "there is no transformation if there is no promotion, and all the effort that has been made in the Roman Theater and in the artistic heritage does not become tourism and prosperity if we do not count it out every day".

He also mentioned that this monument can be visited all year round, "contributing to the deseasonalization of our tourism".

The tourist promotion of the Roman Theater in the equipment of the FC Cartagena has been carried out since 2017, year in which the Ministry of Tourism and Culture increased the subsidy to the Theater for its promotion in 30,000 euros.

The Roman Theater Museum, the most visited in the Region, has received 1,700,000 visitors since its inauguration in July 2008, and in 2018 it has registered the historical figure of more than 230,000 visitors, 10,000 more than the previous year.

The counselor highlighted "the effort for accessibility that has been made so that anyone can enjoy this monument";

and commented that "all the improvements and the tourist promotion have allowed that the references in Internet of the Roman theater of Cartagena increase of considerable form, since if in 2016 they registered 390,000 references, the past year it was arrived at more than one million".

Source: CARM