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Two and a half years of archival research in the Region and several parts of Spain have been necessary to finalize the model of Cartagena in the XVIII century that can be visited in the Military History Museum of Cartagena.
An enormous amount of documentation has allowed the Association of Friends of the Military Museum to know not only what the buildings of the city were like at that time, but also what was done, who occupied them or what was inside them.
So that all this work was not kept in a drawer, José Antonio de las Heras, responsible for the documentation of the association, has collected it in the book 'Cartagena and its arsenal in the eighteenth century through its model', which was presented This Wednesday at the Military History Museum.
The event was attended by the Mayor of Cartagena, José López, the Maritime Action Admiral, Manuel de la Puente Mora-Figueroa, the Colonel of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment Number 73, Enrique Silvela, and the Councilor for Archaeological Heritage, Ricardo Segado .
In the presidential table were the mayor, the captain and director of the Military History Museum, Juan Antonio Martínez, and the author of the book.
It is a work edited by the Cultural, Heritage, Youth and Sports Area of ​​the City of Cartagena, directed by Ricardo Segado, on the occasion of the Year of the Enlightenment and with which the Historical Military Museum itself collaborates.
In this book, based on the image of the scale model 1: 700, based on a map of Juan José Ordovás of the eighteenth century, readers can tour the city and enter each of its buildings.
Through the explanatory texts of the documentation studied, the life of the Carthaginians at that time was presented, what was done inside the buildings and what was between their walls.
This is a work for which archives have been visited such as Simancas, Arsenal or Naval Museum in Madrid among others.
The text can be downloaded for free, in PDF format along with audiovisual material, on the website of the Municipal Archive of Cartagena and the page of the Military History Museum that houses the website of the Ministry of Defense.
The six members of the Association of Friends of the Cartagena Military Museum, José Palencia, Juan Luís Torras, José Luis García and José Antonio Pino, retired engineers from Bazán, worked on the creation of the model on which the book is based.
Juan Gris, teacher of retired fine arts;
And the professor of retired history, Jose Antonio de las Heras Millán.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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