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Cartagena continues with the acts of the recently released Year of the Enlightenment with the exhibition titled 'Cartagena de España Ilustrada.
Shipbuilding in the Captaincy of the Maritime Department of the Mediterranean ', which can be visited until April 16 in the Room Subjective of the Palace Hall, located on the ground floor.
It is a sample divided into two parts: a documentary in which drawings and engravings of the Cartagena of the XVIII century are collected, including original plans of the construction project of the Military Arsenal of the military engineers Sebastián Feringán and Mateo Vodopich.
Also included is an original size reproduction of the inlay of Langón, a beautiful stone that originally was in the cathedral of Cartagena and that corresponds to the tomb of the captain Maltese Langón and in which the different types of boats of the time appear.
The other part of the exhibition is a sample of the ships that were built during the XVIII century in the Arsenal of Cartagena, through 1:50 scale models made by naval modeler José Antonio Sánchez Marroquí on original plans.
These are frigates, galleys, urcas, bombardas and jabeques.
Most of them are municipal property and were commissioned by the City Council in the late 80's and early 90's. But perhaps the most outstanding piece is the reproduction of the ship San Ildefonso, ceded by the Banco Sabadell Foundation.
All of them are illustrated with plaques of the Marquis de la Victoria.
The mayor of Cartagena, José López, and the councilman of the area of ​​Culture and Archaeological Heritage, Ricardo Segado, inaugurated this show on Wednesday at the end of the presentation of the new location of the bust of Carlos III, which returns to the Wall of the Sea .
The first mayor emphasized in the speech prior to the opening of the exhibition the importance of the port city in the beginnings of the stage of the Bourbon on the Spanish throne.
"After the arrival of the new Bourbon dynasty at the beginning of the 18th century, Cartagena, with its excellent geostrategic location and its magnificent natural port, will take a prominent place in the Mediterranean policy of the new monarchs who seek to recover the Italian possessions for the Crown" , Explained.
"All this will lead to an important urban development that will practically conform our city as we know it today: a strong, solidly walled plaza with a well defined defensive approach as evidenced by the set of batteries and strengths," he added.
"As it could not be otherwise, the first exhibition within the Year of the Enlightenment focuses on our city as the capital of the Maritime Department of the Mediterranean and its new attributes as Royal Arsenal of Navy and tunnels of the Kingdom of Spain," remarked Lopez.
He also pointed out that this exhibition "shows through two thematic areas this extraordinary historical context of the city during the eighteenth century" and commented that preparing it "has been a complicated task, because of the sensitivity of the models exposed, as well as the Work of documentation necessary to give it historical context. "
Ricardo Segado, for his part, outlined the presence of the original size reproduction of the Taracea de Langón, from the Old Cathedral, a tombstone "which commemorates the death in combat of the valiant General de Escuadra of the Order of Malta, José Langón in the year 1710, fallen in a confrontation of the Maltese squadron to its command with corsairs of Algiers ", who" in spite of his victory was mortally wounded to seize the flagship of Algiers ".
"In the inlay can be seen next to a great shield of Cartagena linked with the Cross of Malta, a representation of the naval combat between Christians and Muslims that cost the life to him," continued Segado.
Likewise, he also referred to the various naval models, which are one of the main values ​​of this exhibition.
"With this sample of scale models of José Antonio Sánchez Marroquí we want to pay tribute to this cartagenero whose maritime vocation and researcher left us an outstanding collection of ships launched in Cartagena under the Bourbons, which was granted the Naval Merit Cross with Distinctive white ", said the mayor of the area of ​​Culture and Archaeological Heritage.
Segado recalled that "all these boats recreated here were made in the shipyards of Cartagena, located inside the Arsenal, where many trades and activities were carried out," adding that "the exhibition, carried out in collaboration between the Municipal Archive and The Archaeological Museum of Cartagena, gathers one of the most splendid moments of the history of Cartagena.
Once the exhibition was inaugurated, the entourage that had gathered in the Palace Hall after the act of homage to Carlos III enjoyed a guided visit to it, in which the coordinator of Archaeological Patrimony of the municipality, Maria del Carmen Berrocal, and The official chronicler of the city, Luis Miguel Pérez Adán, instructed those present about the stage of the Enlightenment in Cartagena and on the exhibits
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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