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| A letter from Alfonso X addressed to the city has been selected document of the month, while the video focuses on the figure of the popular and peculiar lottery seller | The Municipal Archive of Cartagena has selected as the document of the month a letter from Alfonso X to the city of Cartagena in 1257, granting that the mayors of the city have the power to judge disputes between Christians and Moors.Alfonso X of Castile, called "the Wise One" (Toledo, November 23, 1221 - Seville, April 4, 1284), was king of Castile, León and the other kingdoms with which he was entitled between 1252 and 1284.In this document Alfonso X orders that, in the city of Cartagena, lawsuits between Christians and Moors be judged by the corresponding mayors, but if it is a dispute between Moors, the latter be tried by its Moorish mayor.As for the video of the month, it is an interview with Antoņico "El Lotero" in 1988, from the Telecartagena Fund.Antonio García Miqueo, better known as Antoņico "El Lotero" is, without a doubt, one of the most popular people in the city of Cartagena.

Born in the Santa Lucía neighborhood in 1947, he started working at the age of ten in a company dedicated to the decoration of ceramic pieces, glassware and tableware.

And he has been practicing the lottery profession since 1970, when he started working in the administration number 5, of the San Francisco roundabout.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena