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Cartagena will host from the 26th to the 28th of October the XII AICEI 2017 Meeting, organized by the International Association of Cities and Entities of the Enlightenment, which this time will deal with 'The Enlightened City: Reformism and Urban Transformation'.
The Councilor for Archaeological Heritage, Ricardo Segado, and the Councilor for Culture, David Martínez, presented this Friday this meeting to be held for the first time in Cartagena and during the three days that will last will be held in different parts of the municipality and will count with the attendance of representatives of other cities and entities that are part of the association.
Theater, exhibitions, conferences - among which the National History Award of 2015, Roberto Fernández Díaz - will be offered, visits and complementary activities that will enrich the program, such as the concert of the Young Symphony Orchestra of Cartagena, many of them open to all the citizens, will meet in this congress that is inserted in the context of the Year of the Enlightenment, promoted by the City of Cartagena.
Speakers and speakers will participate in the meeting.
It should also be noted that Cartagena was unanimously elected by all the members of the association to host this meeting corresponding to the edition of this year 2017.
TO DISCLOSE THE HISTORIC PAST OF THE CITY
The Councilor for Archaeological Heritage has stressed that this event serves to "offer citizens the opportunity to know and participate in their material and immaterial heritage."
"It is an honor that Cartagena hosts this congress that helps us to put in value our urban and cultural heritage and bring the population a historical past that we are frankly proud of," said Ricardo Segado.
In the same line has been expressed David Martinez.
"We are delighted to be able to hold this congress here in Cartagena," said the mayor of Culture, who also stressed the will of the City Council "to work to ensure that this legacy is investigated and disseminated, passing it on to the generations of today and future as a very valuable heritage that must be known, cared for and enhanced. "
For his colleague Ricardo Segado "it makes perfect sense" to hold this meeting in the port city, since the S. XVIII was crucial in the urban transformation of Cartagena, which became one of the first illustrated cities in Spain, as commented .
THE ILLUSTRATED CARTGENE
The importance of Cartagena during the S. XVIII can still be recognized in the streets and constructions, with the urban layout and buildings as representative and emblematic as hospitals, barracks, Artillery Park, forts and batteries of coast that surround the city in addition of the Wall of the Sea and the Arsenal, that supposed an unprecedented engineering work with the application of the latest technical and architectural innovations.
The decisive influence of the Enlightenment in the port city was also reflected in the daily life of its citizens so that the stamp of the S XVIII is projected to this day and profoundly influences the current Cartagena, the S. XXI, which shows the decisive inheritance and imprint of several events that have origin in this century as the ascent to the Spanish throne of the Bourbons, with the kings Philip V and his son Carlos III, who were determinants in the future of the port city and placed in the first political, military and social level with the creation of a Royal Navy and its powerful military base, thus making Cartagena the capital of the Maritime Department of the Levant and with the reform of the city that included the transformation of the urban fabric.
ABOUT AICEI
Cartagena has for many years been part of the International Association of Cities and Entities of the Enlightenment (AICEI), which is defined as an entity "with the interest of study and research" of the Enlightenment period "in the various spheres of its manifestation: architecture, art, urbanism, thought, science, humanistic values ​​".
Next to the port city are part of this association cities and entities such as Almacelles, Barcelona, ​​Covilhã, Es Castell, Ferrol Forum of the Enlightenment, New Guatemala of the Assumption, Loggia, MUVIM, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos, the Royal Site of San Ildefonso, San Fernando, the University of Cadiz, the University of Coimbra and Vila Real de Santo António.
For more information about the events and their respective schedules, you can consult the schedule in the document attached to this note or download it by clicking on the link.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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