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Sitting on the steps of the Temple Italic, the ancient inhabitants of our city to enjoy the magnificent views of the city and controlled the mouth of the harbor, one of the safest in the Mediterranean, envied for its strategic importance, military and commercial.

The passage of time has been generous to Cartagena and now, more than twenty centuries later, the archaeological treasures found in the Cerro del Pinwheel allow us to an encounter with the heritage of this ancient city.

The Archaeological Park Windlass Hill, with an area of 26,000 square meters, will be the outdoor park largest in Spain.

The excavations, directed by Professor of the University of Murcia, José Miguel Noguera and the team of archaeologist Maria Jose Madrid, there have been terminated and the work on the hill are now focused on the interpretation of the wreckage and the restoration work and conservation under the supervision of the team led Izaskun Martínez Pérez.

Performing a complete tour of the Hill by the archaeologist Maria Jose Madrid, discover the major milestones that will house the future Park: The Dean's wall or wall of Philip II, the Italic or sacellum Temple dedicated to the goddess Atargatis, the wall andesite that supported the terrace and access to the tempo, indigenous households, the mill that gave its name to Chapel Hill, and in the bottom of the slope the forum and I Ã Peninsula where are the Roman thermal baths.

The journey through the park allow visitors to discover how it has evolved the urbanization of the city, and that the remains found covering a wide horizon that goes from the first half of the second century BC to the sixteenth century AD

ENTRANCE TO THE PARK FOR THE YEAR 1554

Park entrance will be saving a street designed structures of the Roman Forum.

Visitors will find, first, with the remains of the wall of the Dean, a defensive canvas bordering the northern hill and began to be built around the year 1554 being incomplete and being replaced by the wall of Philip II, of which has retained only one of the bastions.

All details have been cared Park millimeter by the team of archaeologists have even supervised the decorating the route trees.

Archaeologist Maria Jose Madrid says that the choice of trees has been studied for the roots to respect the archaeological remains found in the basement.

Furthermore, the choice of the flora native vegetation has been sought to be present in the biosphere from the Roman era in the city.

Following the tour, visitors will discover one of the great landmarks of excavations, the andesite wall dating from the second century

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but that has lasted even until the nineteenth century and has been reused as housing back over the ages.

Along the wall are the steps to the temple Italico of which only retained a series of cuts in the rock, but the study team has allowed archaeologists to reconstruct how was this monumental staircase of the second century BC In it the former inhabitants of the Roman city would sit to contemplate the city and the harbor entrance control.

Now the idea is to recover its original function and is studying the possibility of restoring the stairs with a wooden structure that allows the visitor to sit on the steps and rest your eyes on the views of the city to get a feel as close as possible to reality.

THE MILL CHAPEL HILL gives its name to

The journey through the history is a must in the main enclave of one of the five hills of the city that gave its name to the hill: Windmill which was later used as a chapel.

This mill dates from the XVI century and since then when the hill began to be known as the Cerro del Pinwheel.

Its first use as a flour mill gave way to a more religious as a chapel of San Cristobal and, finally, was employed as a house of great beauty as ornaments discovered in the interior.

Modern history also crosses the basement of the windlass, and that the Park will also show other landmarks of great historical value, although in later times, such as bomb shelters of the Civil War have been unearthed in the excavations.

UPPER PART OF THE HILL IS THE VIEWPOINT OF THE CITY

The tour of the park include two important areas of viewpoints, the first in the walk to the park and the second in the top of the hill, near the temple, indigenous households and the second windmill preserved from the sixteenth century.

The top of the winch is the strategic point where there is a prospect of 26,000 square meters occupied by the Park.

From the highest point it can be noticed that the defensive function had the hill.

You can glimpse the harbor entrance, control the two main entrances into the city in Roman times, and other defensive as the Atalaya hills and Roland.

Turning his gaze to the expansion area, the winch can see the old almarjal bordering the town from the north, the lagoon, that according to the texts of Polybius around 209 BC., Tells how the lake was used to surprise Punic troops stationed in the city drawing on the study of tides and falling water.

In the upper park is also another major milestone found during the excavations, indigenous households, in which the archaeological team has completed work that Pedro San Martin began in 1977.

Completing the trail at the back of the wall of Charles I, in the northern part of the top of the hill we find the oldest remains found in excavations.

This is an alternating succession of rooms with tanks that were used for water collection and which date from the first half of the second century BC., Time that coincides with the conquest of the city by Scipio.

MUSEALIZACIÃ "SLOPE OF THE SOUTH AND OPENING TO THE PUBLIC FIRST

In this site, visitors can discover the secrets of the town planning of early imperial period, and may even walk the streets Roman s, explore hot springs and watch the atrium.

The remains of the Peninsula Ã, Balcones street Blues, will be the first to open to the public and is expected to be visited before the summer. The work currently focuses on the protection of the remains to build a housing for retaining the wall paintings in situ.

In addition, Edge has provided a gateway for visitors to have direct access to the island and allow visitors to walk into the very streets of Rome.

Similar to other excavations as Lliria Lucentum of Alicante and Valencia are also included within the city, although much smaller dimensions, the Archaeological Park will also include musealization winch the remains of the south side and will also be a recreational park that function as green lungs and viewpoint of the city.

For now, five archaeologists, eight restaurateurs and a team of surveyors, engineers and other auxiliary workers work overtime to perpetuate the remains that will soon be laid bare for all Cartagena that may discover this magnificent historical and archaeological heritage for years is hiding in the hills of windlass.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena