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The mayor of Cartagena, José López;
And the rector of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT), Alejandro Díaz Morcillo;
Have presented this Thursday, January 12, the mobile application TouristiCT, which allows users to access information and tours of a series of urban trails in Cartagena.
Thus, the first two designed paths, although progressively will be added more, are the modernist and the historical buildings rehabilitated as headquarters of the UPCT, which includes the Marina Hospital, the Antigones Barracks and the Barracks of Instruction for Mariners ( CIM).
The plaques that have been installed in the urban nucleus to identify them have been made by the students of the Day Center and occupational Prolam, and the information can be obtained through QR codes.
The agreement signed between the City of Cartagena and the UPCT has allowed the university to receive from the Consistory the amount of 22,000 euros that have allowed the development of this mobile application that seeks to disseminate the heritage and promote healthy habits and tourism, using it The new technologies of information and communication.
It is, as the mayor said, "a determined commitment of the City Council because we consider the UPCT as essential for the present and future of the municipality, which has to lead us to the best of the paths and paths."
For his part, the Rector has thanked the Consistory of Cartagena "the close collaboration" that are maintaining both entities and recalled that the initial idea of ​​this project was born in the Polytechnic, in order to connect universities through rural trails And thus encourage sports and healthy activities.
From this idea, raised the possibility that the trails were architectural "given the cultural and architectural heritage of the city of Cartagena.
So, explained Diaz Morcillo, the application consists of an audioguide in which the tourist or citizen can walk through the city and get to know, through text or audio, the history and artistic characteristics of each building or urban element.
One of the creators of the app, Professor and Director of the Occupational Risk Prevention Service of the UPCT, Isidro Ibarra, emphasized the possibilities of the application and has described it as "alive", since "it is being renewed and Although there are only two tours, we intend to have as many tours as cultural, neighborhood or care initiatives we can identify within the city.
In this sense, it has indicated as options of routes that could be added one related to the route of the cover, diverse topics as the Enlightenment or needs of the citizens and has been satisfied with the possibility offered by the application of prolonging an activity of Sports type as is the hiking to a tourist approach that will get within the urban area of ​​Cartagena, while it has shown its desire that the app "not stay in Cartagena" but rather be exported to other localities and connect different Localities, regions or even between countries in the European Union.
"The City Council has been a pioneer in helping us to put this project in motion, hopefully it is a reality," said Ibarra.
TECHNICAL DATA OF THE APPLICATION
At present there are two trails designed in Cartagena.
On the floor of the urban hut, identification plates with the form of footprints have been installed on the ground at each point of interest of the routes.
"We have tried to have brands that have little resonance in the soil, following the instructions of the municipal technicians," said Ibarra.
In addition, each route will have an identifying color, which can be seen on the plates.
At each point of the route there will be a QR code that users can scan to obtain the information that, as in the case of the identification plates of the soil, are presented in a small size so that it does not cause a great impact on façades or elements Historic sites of Cartagena.
The information, at least for the moment, is available in Spanish and in English.
On the other hand, has ensured that this is not an application that interferes with the work of city tour guides, but can come to complement their work.
"It will give us more possibilities at the city level," said the creator of the app, who has finished his speech thanking the collaboration that has received the UPCT to launch this idea, as well as the developers who, through Of a spin-off, work for two years in the same.
DEBT FROM THE PREVIOUS MUNICIPAL CORPORATION
The mayor of Cartagena recalled that when he was introduced to the idea of ​​the 'TouristiCT' application shortly after reaching the municipal government, he saw that "the idea was good", although incipient, since the developers had only been developing it during half-year.
Thus, the government team decided to pay a sum of money due to the Polytechnic University and, thus, has ensured that they have already paid 22,000 euros to settle that debt and that allows the creators of the app to continue improving the Implementation and creating new paths.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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