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From the Culture and Heritage area, directed by Ricardo Segado (MC Cartagena), a new initiative for the conservation of the municipality's extensive heritage has just been completed.

With respect to the wall of Carlos III, one of the most outstanding monuments of the patrimony of Cartagena, an action has been concluded in the extreme northwest of this walled enclosure of the XVIII century.

Specifically, on the so-called Baluarte 24, which surrounds the skirt of the San José hill on which the Santiago Club is built, the vegetation that masks a large part of the wall of the said bastion has been removed.

These works, authorized by the General Directorate of Cultural Assets and coordinated by the Municipal Manager of Historical and Archaeological Heritage, Mari Carmen Berrocal, have lasted two weeks.

Thanks to this action, it has been possible to identify the original wall, as well as the recent recrecidos, which has allowed to evaluate the negative visual impact of the nearest trees and have the necessary information to write an integral project that contemplates the visualization and lighting of the bastion from the streets adjacent to Capitanes Ripoll, in order to recover for the city a significant section of this Property of Cultural Interest virtually disappeared on the land front.

The Baluarte 24, of pentagonal plant, has both in its upper and lower sections a dense vegetation formed mainly by ivy vines, cypresses hedges and clumps of succulent plants, to which are added the recent garden areas in Capitanes Ripoll streets and Pedro Martín Zermeño where it has been repopulated with different tree species that completely cover the wall.

From Archaeological Heritage has been considered a priority to recover the image of this bastion forgotten until now, which presides over the surroundings of the new square of the Master Torres Escribano, counting these works also with the archaeological follow up by Luis Miguel Pérez Adán.

Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena