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Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, opened today at the Municipal Archives of the City of Cartagena, an exhibition of images of La Manga which will run until January 31 and that is another way of bringing some of the Cartagena city and how it has evolved, which will bring many more memories of one, stressed Montero.
This exhibition brings back the images from a Manga that no longer exists, showing the beginning of urban transformation.
It consists of some 70 photographs from the collection donated by Antonio Solano Oliver, who recorded step by step process of urbanization between 1963 and 1980.
These photographs are part of about 400 that have been donated for scanning, so that will become part of the Archive and may be used by researchers.
Moreover, as pointed head and Publications Archive of the Municipal Archives, Alfonso Grandal, to complete the exhibition, the photographs have been added some curious materials belonging to the Municipal Archives, as are the record of the logging of La Manga, 1582 A map of 1884 and The News of February 21, 1963.
Of dunes in the saturation "of urban STICA
La Manga del Mar Menor is a strip of coastline of 21 kilometers long, extending south-north from Cape Palos to the salt flats of San Pedro del Pinatar.
With a width of between 100 and 1,200 meters, between the Mediterranean Sea from the Mar Menor.
This barrier island was covered with sand at its widest, was originally covered with dense vegetation consisting of the so-called Pinaret of salt, at the southern entrance, followed by a coast juniper on the dunes, which dominated the juniper and juniper .
Something similar happened in the north, with the pinata and more juniper.
In 1582 it was ordered cut by the council of Cartagena the forest area of the entrance, by the threat posed to those who traveled there and the little garrison of the tower out of Palos, as in the thick vegetation pirates ambushed Algerians.
Since been declining forest cover, to be a clear sandy landscape dotted only by some patches of vegetation that have been better preserved in the part of San Pedro.
The spectacular combination of the Mar Menor and La Manga islands, as was the late seventeenth century, remained almost intact until the early years of the sixties of the twentieth century, when urbanization started in the area.
At first it was little action and certainly extensive architectural interest, but in the next decade will result in a frenzied race to build in any way all the available space, until, in the early twenty-first century, the saturation we see today .
Only a small area of land at the southern end and a somewhat broader in the north, had been saved from the general luck to give a poor witness to what was La Manga.
The exhibition will be open Monday through Friday from 9 to 13.30, in the morning, and by the afternoon, after the year January 11, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, from 17 to 19.45 hours.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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