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| The exhibition can be visited until January 31, 2021 | The Enrique Escudero de Castro Municipal Archaeological Museum hosts the exhibition "The Silent City, a walk through the Nuestra Señora de los Remedios Cemetery in Cartagena" organized by the City Council and the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT).The exhibition, which was presented this Friday, October 30, will be on display until January 31, 2021.
At the inauguration, the Councilor for the Culture Area, David Martínez Noguera, explained that the main objective of the exhibition is to "show the architectural heritage that the cemetery of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios de Cartagena possesses, a monumental cemetery inaugurated in 1868 that contains in its interior more than 40 buildings signs of heritage valuation ".The mayor highlighted that "the Silent City Project has tried to draw up a record of these silent dwellings erected in the other city, that of the dead."Regarding the book that this exhibition contains, Martínez Noguera pointed out that "this book is a chronicle of the exile of the old cemeteries, located in the intramural churches to replace them with new larger and regular ones: in the place of Los Arcos next to the Santa Lucia neighborhood to the east, and in the Llano del Almarjal to the north, in order to protect the inhabitants.In the interior cemeteries the religious of Santa María de Gracia and San Miguel and the soldiers of the Hospital de Galeras, of La Caridad and de la Marina, Antigones.
From the initial extramural cemeteries those of La Caridad, the Parroquial, the Marina and the Británico are studied, the inventory closes with the two holy fields that have reached our days, municipal management , that of San Antonio Abad and that of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios,focusing the discourse of the book on the latter ", concluded the mayor.For her part, the professor of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), María José Muñoz Mora, pointed out that the book is a chronicle of the Nuestra Señora de Los Remedios cemetery and all the cemeteries that existed since the 16th century in Cartagena, while explaining that the book focuses on this cemetery "because it contains many monuments worthy of patrimonial protection."In addition, Muñoz Mora explained that the main motivation of the project has been "to graphically date a forgotten heritage and whose state of conservation is in many cases deficient". The Cemetery of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios is a monumental holy field whose urban design constitutes a scale replica of a closed city, in which it is possible to find expressions of the main architectural styles of the past.The vice-rector of the UPCT, Juan Pedro Solano, expressed his gratitude to the Cartagena City Council for its collaboration in carrying out this exhibition, while highlighting the work led by the author that "has a lot to do with the work of the University , which is not only transmitting knowledge but generating it and transferring it to society ".ABOUT THE AUTHORProfessor María José Muñoz Mora presented her doctoral thesis in 2017 entitled "Death, his house and his city the vanishing of the silent city of Cartagena" and for 10 years she has been working on funerary heritage, through research projects , publications and participation in national and international congresses.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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