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The Roman Theatre in Cartagena receives about 10,000 visitors at Easter, 12 percent more than the same period last year (02/04/2016)

The Museum of Roman Theatre in Cartagena, under the foundation that make up the autonomous region, the City of Cartagena and the Cajamurcia Foundation has increased its number of visitors during this Easter.

Specifically, they have been around 9,800 people who have gone through the museum Cartagena during these holidays, which is 12 percent more than last year.

Also, there are now more than 35,000 stakeholders who have come to see the monument and museum in 2016 and this figure rises to 1,140,000 visitors since its opening.

The Director General of Cultural Property and member of the board of the Foundation, Maria Comas, recalled that "the Museum of Roman Theatre in Cartagena is the most visited of the region and one of the most popular of Spain".

He also stressed that this Easter "has achieved historical data on the number of visitors, as they have been almost 10,000 people of different nationalities who have taken advantage of the holidays to visit Cartagena, admire their processions and visit the architectural jewel represents the Roman Theatre, become one of the major cultural and tourist attractions of the region. "

On the occasion of Easter, the Roman Theatre Museum extended its visiting hours and opening days, "with the main objective to provide the best possible service to tourists and citizens of the region," said Comas.

Specifically, the busiest day public was on Good Friday, with 1,581 people, followed by Holy Saturday, with 1,515 visitors.

Besides visiting the Roman Theatre itself, attendees had the opportunity to see the two temporary exhibitions at the Museum, which will remain open until late May and early June, and also participated in various activities of the Museum scheduled Cartagena Port of Cultures, as the dramatized route 'Indiana Jones scenes', which will continue during April Saturday at 12:00 pm, departing from the Roman Theatre.

As for exhibitions that can still be visited in Marmoris.

Move the soul of marble ', Olga Rodriguez,' lunensis marmor 'becomes the protagonist and is the basic support of a sample to which the very presence of Roman architecture in the room gives an exceptional character to establish a dialogue between the old stones and contemporary works.

From the very bowels of the quarries of Carrara, from which came the capitals of the Roman Theater and many great works of the Renaissance, emerges the work of Rodriguez Pomares with that trip to the white marble, which highlights its textures, holes and irregularities.

This exhibition will remain open until 30 May.

You can also still visit until June 1, the exhibition 'Women of Rome through the art of comics', which seeks to transfer the public the complexity and importance of a historical period in which women achieved a degree of unknown emancipation until then in ancient societies.

The sample is based on the comic and graphic novel set in Roman times as a vegetable and educational tool that encourages reading and encourage critical analysis.

Visiting hours Museum of Roman Theatre in Cartagena, Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 to 18:00, and on Sundays from 10:00 to 14:00.

On Mondays, the center will be closed.

Source: CARM

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