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100 years in the history of the city, 1869-1964 'was inaugurated Wednesday in an act that was attended by the mayor |

The exhibition 'Casino de Cartagena.

100 years in the history of the city, 1869-1964 ', open to the public on Wednesday February 2 at the Casino de Cartagena, offers a sample of fragments of the history of this institution through pages of different newspapers of the city in the Nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The mayor of Cartagena, José López, was in charge of inaugurating this exhibition that will be permanently exposed.

The exhibition consists of 14 panels, each with a page of local newspaper in which there are news and events related to the Casino of Cartagena, which are highlighted on the page, with a commentary on the foot where reference is made to that news and Is contextualized with the surrounding reality at that time.

News that refer to the Democratic Sexenio, the Cantonal Revolution or the Civil War and how these events had an effect on the operation of the Casino, which can be enjoyed thanks to the collaboration in this project of the Municipal Archive of Cartagena.

The selected news have a common thread, they refer to the problems that for the Casino has always meant the exploitation of the cafeteria, a fundamental element for the support of the institution, with what it is wanted to underline according to an information poster "that, despite Of everything, and the course of a hundred years, there are things that do not change. "

A way of knowing the history of this emblematic building of the city within a broad context.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena