Portal de Cartagena
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AFORCA welcomes the recent transfer agreement signed for the change of ownership of Atalaya Castle at the hands of Hon.
City of Cartagena.
He believes that this new situation can be an opportunity to promote actions leading to its restoration and enhancement.
Veteran Association of Friends of Cartageneros Castles, strengths, walls, towers and old batteries want the current Municipal Corporation is able to articulate mechanisms leading to collect the necessary support to restore the splendor to this magnificent eighteenth century fortification bastion.
AFORCA believed that the first and most urgent actions to be taken as cleared, controlled debris removal, including the tanks, the restoration of the entrance to the Castle or the reconstruction of the spiral staircase or the external building latrines, about to lost forever, they could be assumable by the municipality without major outlays.
A periodic removal of waste deposited there some of the many hikers who visit along with an implementation of the posters explaining their history might be a good starting point for promoting future and more ambitious investments.
This fortification maintains acceptable conditions of recovery, and two old bedroom troop ships offer great potential for future complementary cultural uses.
AFORCA draws attention last possible alternative forms of institutional collaboration through Workshop Schools and Employment Workshops, or by groups or associations aimed volunteers willing to perform work altruistically restoration with support from local businesses, as has been the magnificent example at the Military Museum of Cartagena or the restoration of the old Military Hospital of Menorca built in the eighteenth century on King Island in the Port of Mahon.
AFORCA offered as always enthusiastic collaboration by providing historical documentation and technical advice that it is capable.
Source: AFORCA
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