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The Municipal Archive of Cartagena has selected as document of the month a letter of the year 1504 that the Catholic Kings sent to the Council of Cartagena.
Written in Medina del Campo, dated August 8, reiterates the prohibition, already exposed in a previous one of July 27, to sell wheat to foreigners, because of the high price.
The video of the chosen month is from Tele Cartagena and deals with the felling of eucalyptus in the Alameda de San Antón which took place in 1989.
The letter of the Catholic Kings is the first historical document filed of the more than 40,000 existing in the Municipal Archives of Cartagena, it is not the oldest and perhaps not the most important, but it has the notoriety of being the first document with a signature in this Archive.
The video of the month is an audiovisual document of Tele Cartagena about the eucalyptus felling that took place in the Alameda de San Antón.
The City Council order provoked citizen protests.
At the end of the 19th century, many eucalyptus trees were planted to eliminate soil moisture and scare away mosquitoes from the area, but, having aged the trees and presenting an ugly appearance, at the end of 1989, the governing Corporation that was of the Cantonal Party, He ordered his felling.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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