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Next Monday, November 25 at 8:00 p.m. in the cultural classroom of the Cajamurcia Foundation (Casa Pedreño), the Cartagena Futuro Association will hold the XXX Edition of 'Los Culturales', which this time will be dedicated to the historical and extinct 'Bank of Cartagena'.

The act, freely accessible and will be moderated by Carlos Gerardo Martínez Andreo, will feature among the speakers José María Conesa Duelo, author of the book `The Bank of Cartagena.

A pioneer entity that crossed borders´, as well as with the Official Chronicler of Cartagena, Juan Ignacio Ferrández, who will intervene with the paper called `The city that saw the Bank of Cartagena born '.

The bank, which was based in the current Plaza San Francisco, was born with the task of facilitating exports of minerals from La Unión and the rest of the farms spread throughout the southeast.

Among some reference data, which have remained for posterity, it should be noted that one of its drivers was the Count of Romanones.

Also that by 1919 it had a capital that amounted to more than 20 million of the old pesetas and that under its denomination the first private banking network in Andalusia was created, with various branches spread across different cities.

For Ignacio Borgoñós, president of Cartagena Futuro, "it is a magnificent opportunity to get to know an important part of the Cartagena that left us and, at the same time, to weigh the great importance that the city had during the modernist era, where the economic boom dragged by the mining boom made possible not only the construction of large houses for the most famous miners, but it was possible until the creation of a bank with very important private capital operations, which transcended borders.

And he concludes by saying that `both José María Conesa Duelo, whose book on the Bank of Cartagena will be presented in the cultural, and Juan Ignacio Ferrández;

They are two highly trained people to provide a vision of what this entity was, which passed the name of Cartagena not only in Spain, but throughout the world.

Source: Cartagena Futuro