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Cartagena Puerto de Culturas today opened the new rooms of the Castillo de la Concepción Medieval Cartagena engaged in an act that has benefited from the presence of the council of Tourism and Culture, Javier Herrera and Rosario Montero, respectively, and the director General of Cultural Assets, Enrique Ujaldón.
Both Smith and Ujaldón have stressed the importance of this action that can demonstrate a period in the history of Cartagena, to date, was the least known and, adding to the current supply of Puerto de Culturas, allow visitors to take a picture entire city, both its medieval period, as Islamic and Christian.
Remember that in order to incorporate new museum spaces to offer today can enjoy this place, have been excavated and recovered several rooms, until now buried, to which access was exposed in the works in the 2003.
With a total investment by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of close to 700,000 euros, which opened today is a space of about 300 square meters of dwellings in different rooms concectadas linearly where the archers of the castle encotraba medieval and by now they can enjoy and learn, in addition to Cartagena, visitors and tourists who want to come to the city, including the 2,000 cruise passengers calling at the port today in Cartagena, said Javier Herrero.
El Castillo de la Concepción has undergone various transformations throughout history, in classical times, a temple dedicated to Aesculapius, the Islamic and palace in time with the construction cristina by Alfonso X de la Torre del Homenaje, inside the old castle, and other changes made to this day.
In the late seventeenth century, a series of works in the Castillo de la Concepción, to defend the city, built between the ancient and medieval towers around the keep by their sides east and south, stays today have been recovered, which would serve to house the garrison stationed there.
These rooms are communicated with each other through several archways or rifle retained the loopholes.
The budget for the implementation of this work has been of 398,000 euros from the Directorate General of tourist infrastructure of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, with Azuche the contractor and architects, drafters, and Alberto José Manuel Chacón Ibero.
This work involved the excavation of these architectural spaces and the adequacy thereof, and generate new access to the Torre del Homenaje, adding an elevator to be located in the old courtyard and connected to the reception and promoting exit of visitors through the southern part of the new rooms.
NEW RIDE HEIGHT DIAGN
These new spaces have musealized incorporating the medieval history of the city, which until now had not been made known to visitors, and also updated musealization Tower of Homage and water tanks, with a budget of 285,000 euros funded by the Directorate General of tourist infrastructure of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
The action has been performed in different spaces, on the one hand, the Torre del Homenaje, dedicated to the history of Cartagena, with highly topical museum resources that highlight the 3000 year history of the city and the most representative landmarks each moment of maximum splendor of Cartagena.
On the other hand, in the cisterns will tell the evolution of the medieval fortress, since it was built in the thirteenth century on the ruins of a Muslim palace, the main defense for centuries.
Once these spaces the visitor travels take you to the first room devoted to Islamic Cartagena, through audiovisual, panels, parts and props of the era, will move to the Cartagena medieval know different aspects of both the Islamic and Christian Cartagena on the history, urban planning, economics, port or town.
Later, visitors will enter a space that was devoted to shelter in the Civil War, reaching the last room, dedicated to the store and where it has enabled a new exit on the south side of Castle.
This offer is incorporated today runs the rest of Cartagena Puerto de Culturas.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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