Portal de Cartagena
www.portaldecartagena.com
This morning, the first deputy mayor and councilor of the Culture and Heritage area, Ricardo Segado (MC Cartagena), asked the Minister of Education, Culture and Sports, Iñigo Méndez de Vigo, to return the sculpture known as Ara to Cartagena. Pacis that, at present, is in the Archaeological Museum of Barcelona.
Segado has substantiated his request in the recent dismissal of the Provincial Court of Huesca of the appeals filed by the National Art Museum of Catalonia and the Generalitat of Catalonia to prevent the return to Aragon of the assets of the Sijena Monastery.
Thus, the ruling handed down by the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 1 of Huesca, which ordered the return of sacred art stones, prevailed.
In this context, the councilor of MC Cartagena, has qualified as "ideal" the moment for this request, picking up, in addition, "a popular clamor of the citizens of Cartagena, which we welcome as their representatives."
The mayor has requested the collaboration of Minister Méndez de Vigo for the return of the Roman altar to Cartagena, which, after many vicissitudes, was acquired by the Museum of Archeology of Catalonia in 1940, where it is currently exhibited.
Ricardo Segado argues his claim in the continuous claims made for years, especially since 1997, the year in which the piece was ceded for twenty days to the City of Cartagena for the celebration of XXIV National Congress of Archeology, a period in which about nine a thousand visits that the sculpture had show "the interest that Ara Pacis has for our city", said Segado.
In addition, in 2006, the Senate agreed, on October 11, to demand the return of the piece, not showing any action to execute this agreement.
More recent was the motion presented by MC Cartagena in the municipal plenary session (September 2016), to urge the CARM to negotiate with the Ministry of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia the return of Ara Pacis to its city of origin.
For all these reasons, the person in charge of the Culture and Heritage area of ​​the Government of Cartagena ends his letter asking Méndez de Vigo "to study the subject from his current competence perspectives", "as well as to carry out the appropriate procedures so that, in a Once and definitively, the Ara Pacis is returned to the city of Cartagena, where it was found and to which it belongs ".
Ara Pacis
The Ara Pacis is a Roman altar dated in the first century, between the end of the reign of Augustus and the beginnings of Tiberius, where the figurative language of the Pax Romana is shown, that is, the period of stability of the Roman Empire that facilitated its maximum development .
Found in the sixteenth century between the hills of Molinete and Concepción, it is a representative piece of the importance of Cartagena in antiquity.
With this request, MC Cartagena reaffirms, once again, its firm commitment to culture and the defense of the heritage of the city of Cartagena.
Source: MC Cartagena
Privacy policy
- Legal notice
- Cookies