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Jesus Gimenez: ". The Plenary should boost its return is the time to do"

MC asked on 29 September, by a motion be presented by the area councilor of Culture and Archaeological Heritage, Ricardo Segado, the plenary of the Corporation urge the Autonomous Community to seek and claim the Generalitat de Catalunya the return of Ara Pacis to Cartagena.

The Ara Pacis is a Roman altar dating from the first century, between the end of the reign of Augustus and the beginning of Tiberius, where the figurative language of the Pax Romana is shown, ie the period of stability of the Roman Empire which facilitated its peak .

He found in the sixteenth century between hills Pinwheel and Concepcion is a representative piece of the importance of Cartagena in antiquity.

In the last plenary, the cartagenerista training got the other parties to accede to the request to the National Archaeological Museum (MAN) Return of 'alabaster altarpiece of Cartagena' Gothic sculptural composition of English origin, dating from the last quarter of XV century, which was located at the Cathedral of Cartagena.

As the president and spokesman MC, Jesus Gimenez, said Plenum marked "a historic milestone, because we reached consensus on the need for this piece is in Cartagena, and if possible in the Cathedral in the near future, but this should not hide that there are many other pieces of great value that must be displayed in Cartagena and in context and that for years are deprived of Cartagena by the vicissitudes of history and other issues. "

Gimenez said that "with our Coordinator of Heritage, Maria Dolores Ruiz, Councilman Ricardo Segado and the rest of the working group MC, have agreed to prepare this motion to consider that if the alabasters are a paradigmatic piece regarding the religious heritage the Ara Pacis is perhaps the most emblematic of how many are not in Cartagena and the House should take up this issue to boost his return. "

It should be recalled, added the president of MC, that "the altar has been a long journey full of vicissitudes which led him to private hands, until in 1940 it was acquired by the Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia in Barcelona, ​​where it is currently displayed, and he has not returned to Cartagena since the 90s there is decontextualized and, although they have existed over time several attempts to make it back to Cartagena, never has undertaken this action decisively, and consider it the time to do it. "

Finally, Jesus Gimenez stated that "to be a matter between autonomous communities, urge the CARM to defend the interests of Cartagena and formally request the Generalitat de Catalunya, through official channels, the return of this piece of important archaeological value that belongs to us. "

Thus, MC reaffirms once again its strong commitment to culture and heritage protection of the city of Cartagena, urging the CARM to do your job, immediately initiating negotiations in order that, in the shortest possible time, the Ara Pacis return to Cartagena, where this is perfectly preserved Roman altar and contextualized.

Source: MC