Portal de Cartagena
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The Palacio Consistorial de Cartagena is among the 20 most spectacular in Spain, according to the Niumba blog of the TripAdvisor travel portal.
The Cartagena institutional building is the only one in the Region that is part of this list prepared by the leading tourism website.
The property was built in 1907 and remodeled about a decade ago.
Since then, it has been the headquarters of the Mayor's Office of the port city and is used for institutional events given its spectacular nature, now endorsed by this publication.
This building is one of the referents of the modernist and eclectic architecture of Cartagena and is located in an incomparable setting that constitutes one of the first impressions that the visitor receives when encountering the stamp of the Plaza del Ayuntamiento attached to the Plaza de los Heroes of Cavite and Santiago de Cuba and next to the Port.
Built in marbles of great quality -of Macael (Almería), comparable to those of Carrara- and granite, both in its facade and in the interior of the reception, and designed by the architect Tomás Rico, more than 15,000 visitors a year, mainly tourists who arrive at the numerous cruise ships that dock at the Port of Cartagena, are surprised to see the richness of their finishes, their stained glass windows, their tapestries, the shapes and their motifs engraved on the stone used for their uprising and in the columns of cast iron and zinc flakes of the exteriors of its domes, which honors the wealth and mining tradition of the area of ​​the region.
A SELECT GROUP
In the list, in addition to the Palace of Cartagena, include the Royal Palace of Madrid, the Palace of the Farm of San Ildefonso, the Palace of Charles V of Granada, the Palace of Magdalena of Santander, the Palace of San Telmo in Seville , the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, the Sobrellano de Comillas Palace, the Cibeles Palace in Madrid, the Aljafería Palace in Zaragoza, the Botines de León House, the Monterrey Palace in Salamanca, the Royal Palace of Aranjuez, the Royal Palace of the Almudaina in Palma de Mallorca, the Nasrid Palaces in Granada, the Episcopal Palace in Astorga, the Güell Palace in Barcelona, ​​the Palace of the Marquises of Viana in Córdoba, the Capricho de Gaudí in Comillas and the Riofrío Palace of Riaza.
ABOUT NIUMBA
Niumba is the blog of TripAdvisor, the leading website in travel and tourism services contracting.
In this blog, articles and critiques of the best destinations are offered, both nationally and internationally, as well as classifications such as the one that now houses the Palacio Consistorial de Cartagena.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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