Portal de Cartagena
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Closed to lime and singing.
This is how the Cabo de Palos Lighthouse found several hundred visitors and Cartagena residents in other parts of Spain during last Christmas.
All were convinced that the emblematic tower was open to the public two months after the president of the Port Authority, Joaquín Segado, announced that the organized routes would begin in December.
Some absent Cartagena, and returned a few days to the city these holidays just finished, have shown their disappointment to the Cantonal Party when once in front of the centennial construction its doors had the key cast and no poster announced any access schedule.
"We read in November on the internet the days where it could be visited for free and we are very happy that the Port promised its definitive opening at Christmas when we return to Cartagena to spend the holidays, but it is closed and they have not given us any explanation" , explains grieved José Vidal, an excomercial with habitual residence in Madrid but born in the port city 68 years ago.
The Port Authority of Cartagena decided to show the interior of the Cabo de Palos Lighthouse on the first weekend of last November.
The overwhelming interest of the Cartagena overflowed all the forecasts.
Up to 4,000 requests received the seat of the Port.
Of which, only 380 people got a place, after a lottery, for the half-hour visit with specialized guides that also explained the origin of the fishing population, its geographical importance for navigation, the history of the property itself and some touches of relevance of the past as the shipwrecks that occurred in the nearby Hormigas islands, among which the collapse of the famous cruise ship `Sirio 'in 1906 with about 250 deaths.
Attractions that have raised a great interest among locals and foreigners regarding its reopening coinciding with the Christmas and New Year holidays.
The candidate for mayor and secretary general of the PCAN, Celestino García Alfaro, bets on its use as a tourist attraction on the southern shore of the Mar Menor, both for its spectacular views from its upper terrace and for the importance of the lighthouse, the highest in the Iberian Peninsula together with the Tower of Hercules of La Coruña.
The light emitted by his lantern, located 81 meters above sea level, reaches a visibility of up to 24 nautical miles, approximately forty kilometers.
Source: Partido Cantonal de Cartagena
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