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The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, accompanied by the Councillor for Tourism and Culture in Cartagena, Javier Herrera and Rosario Montero, respectively, today inaugurated the medieval castle stays the Conception of Cartagena after the restoration and enhancement funded by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism with an amount of 700,000 euros.
Ujaldón stressed that the openness of the medieval castle stays extends the range of 'Cartagena Port of Cultures', "which not only contributes to the recovery of important historical heritage of this county, but also to strengthen the positioning of Cartagena and concerning Mediterranean tourist. "
To incorporate these new museum spaces have been excavated and recovered several rooms so far buried, to which access was exposed in the works in 2003.
The new space consists of an area of 300 square meters of dwellings in different rooms connected in a linear way, where were the archers of the medieval castle.
El Castillo de la Concepción has undergone various transformations and has many different uses throughout history.
For example, in classical times was a temple dedicated to Aesculapius, in Islamic times was used as a fortress in time cristina Alfonso X built the keep inside the old castle, and other changes made to this day.
In the late seventeenth century, a series of works in the castle for the defense of the city, building, between the ancient and medieval towers around the keep, the rooms now have recovered and would serve to accommodate the garrison stationed there.
These rooms are interconnected through several archways or rifle retained the loopholes.
The budget for the recovery of the Boards of 398,000 euros has been funded by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
The work has involved the excavation of these sites and the architectural appropriateness of them.
In addition, we have generated new accesses to the Torre del Homenaje, adding an elevator to be located in the old courtyard and connected to the reception.
It has also enabled an outlet for visitors to the southern part of the new rooms.
New tour
The new spaces, which are incorporated today runs the rest of Cartagena Puerto de Culturas, have musealized incorporating the medieval history of the city, which until now had not been made known to visitors, and also has updated musealization of the Keep and the tanks, with a budget of 285,000 euros financed by Ministry.
In the Tower of Homage have built highly topical museum resources that highlight the 3,000-year history of Cartagena and milestones more representative of their times of peak.
On the other hand, in the tanks 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, are reminiscent of medieval Cartagena 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.
Source: CARM
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