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Hiking Program of the Department of Social Services promoted a cultural tour to learn the history of the city via a route through the five hills surrounding the ancient Cartagena.
85 elderly people participated in the activity, covering 7 kilometers that made up the route: Sacro Monte, Monte San Jose, Despeñaperros, the Conception and the windlass.
During the tour stops they were made in each of these hills, where Asensio Bernal and Luis Manzanares, members of the group, offered detailed explanations.
The five hills of Cartagena are a series of promontories on which the Carthaginian general Asdrúbal the Beautiful rose in 227.
C. the urban area of ​​Qart Hadasht, predecessor of modern Cartagena, building on a previous Iberian settlement called Mastia.
Since its founding in hills in some writings of historians of Roman times it used to be known as the Little Rome, by comparison with the eternal city of seven hills.
With the exception of Arx Asdrubalis, hills possessed in antiquity names in homage to mythological characters that can be read in different ways because of the Roman assimilation of Greek and Phoenician gods.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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