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The Hall of Thrones of Captaincy has been the scene of the official act, today October 27, of the opening of the XII Meeting AICEI 2017 in which the Acting Mayor, Juan Pedro Torralba, the Admiral of the Arsenal, Aniceto Rosique, have been present. and the coordinator of ACEI, Carlos Luis Figueira.
Cartagena hosts the meeting 'The Illustrated City: Reformism and Urban Transformation', organized by the International Association of Cities and Entities of the Enlightenment, until Sunday, October 28, since the Enlightenment left an indelible mark in the s.
XVIII in the city.
In addition to being this 2017 declared the year of Ilustracación in Cartagena.
The Acting Mayor, has manifested the commitment of the town hall in Cartagena in which the legacy received is investigated and disclosed.
For this reason, the City Council supported the city of Cartagena was the headquarters of this XII Encounter of the Illustrated City.
The stage chosen, for the official opening of these days, has not been random either.
The Capitanía Palace is one of the most representative buildings that were built in Cartagena in that period.
Torralba has praised the great legacy Illustrated of the city, for being very wide and very rich.
A clear example of these are the constructions of the Old Navy Hospital, currently the School of Industrial Engineering;
the Antiguones Barracks (which currently hosts the School of Telecommunications), or the Old Infantry Barracks (CIM), in whose dependencies the students of the Faculty of Business study.
In the course of the inauguration, Juan Pedro Torralba thanked the Admiral of the Arsenal, Aniceto Rosique, his selfless collaboration with the XII Meeting ACEI 2017 and has wished the organizers of him that the days are a success and that everyone enjoys the city ​​of Cartagena.
The conferences began an hour later, at 11:00 am, in the Assembly Hall of the Museum of Underwater Archeology, ARQUA.
The first speaker of the day is Roberto Fernández Díaz, with his lecture on 'Carlos III: a reformist monarch'.
All the conferences of this meeting have a free entrance and the City Council of Cartagena will broadcast these conferences in streaming, so that they can be seen live through their YouTube channel.
The presentations of the morning will be able to be seen in this link, first conferences and those of the afternoon, in this other, second conferences.
Already at 12:30 hours, the Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Murcia, Cristina Roda, has been responsible for giving the conference 'The Cartagena Illustrated in the 21st century'.
At the end of the presentation, the director of the ARQUA museum, Ivan Negueruela, will guide the audience for a visit to the Underwater Archeology Museum that he directs.
The program of activities will continue in the afternoon.
At 16:30 hours, the presentation of communications is scheduled in the library of the Military Historical Museum, Artillery Park, moderated by Francisco Franco, Official Chronicler of Cartagena.
'Illustrated Cities.
The case of Nuevo Baztán as a Pre-industrial city in the eighteenth century '(Isabel González Alonso, Tourism and Local Development technician of the Nuevo Baztán Town Hall)
'From the Enlightenment to Modernity.
Trasformación Urbana '(Doroteo Gouveia, director of the Botanical Garden).
'The Botanical Garden of the Universities of Coimbra: illuminated the city of green from 1722' (Antonio Gouveia, director of the Botanical Garden).
'Francisco Salzillo: from baroque realism to enlightened idealism' (German rramallo, professor of Art History at the University of Murcia).
'Hospital de Marina: constructive elements' (M.ª del Carmen Berrocal, Co-ordinator of Archeology and Heritage of the City of Cartagena).
'Fortifications of the illustration' (Juan Lorenzo Gómez-Vizcaino Castelló, Warden of AFORCA).
The day will end with a visit, at 20:00 hours, to the Military History Museum and the model exhibitions of the Artillery Park Illustration.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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