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The Commission for Education and Culture has unanimously approved the motion submitted by the deputy of the parliamentary group Popular, Elena Ruiz Valderas urging the regional government to preserve and protect the remains of the dock of the port of old Carthago Nova found In the archaeological inspections carried out in the Llagostera House, we are facing one of the few testimonies of the Roman port architecture that can be studied in our country, so we believe that we must adopt the necessary measures for its conservation and continue archaeological research for To deepen the knowledge of this great work of Roman engineering, explained the deputy.

Elena Ruiz emphasized that Cartagena has already accumulated a long experience in the integration of the archaeological remains in the present city, we bet that the collaboration between the Council of Culture and the city council of Cartagena channel the archaeological excavation, the integration of the vestiges and its Coexistence with the recovery of the Llagostera House, one of the most valuable examples of modernist architecture offered by the city, he said.

It has also appealed to the cooperation between the Public Administrations in the search of funds that allow the value of the remains.

The popular deputy has said that in recent years the municipality of Cartagena has been endowed with legal instruments for urban planning and planning, such as the Plan for Protection and Management of the Old Town, which facilitate the coexistence between the modern city and the old, this Plan contemplates the necessary measures of compensation to guarantee the conservation of the remains and that, at the same time, does not stop the restoration of the building.

Elena Ruiz recalled that in the last two decades have been carried out numerous archaeological interventions that have resulted in the location and study of some of the most relevant buildings of the ancient Carthaginian and Roman city such as the Punic Wall, The Roman Forum Or the Theater itself that have been put in value through the project Cartagena, Puerto de Culturas and that have turned the city into a national example in research as in recovery and urban integration of the archaeological remains.

Source: GPP