Portal de Cartagena
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The port of Cartagena awaiting the arrival of nearly 52,000 tourists who will call on board about forty ships during the second season of cruises from September to December.
As indicated by the Councillor for Tourism, Palazón Carolina, Cartagena is within the circuit of Mediterranean cruises that are fired from this date when other tourism offerings such as Northern Europe or Alaska shorten their seasons by the weather.
So the season has begin this morning with the arrival of the ship AIDAvita, company Aida Cruises, which has come ashore at the port in the early hours with more than 1,200 passengers, mostly Germans.
The AIDAvita, reminded the Councillor,
is one of the regular cruises in the port of Cartagena.
We visit for the fifth time this year and still hold two scales until the end of the year, revealing its recognizable design tuning, a huge blue and yellow eye and red lips painted on the hull.
The cruisers have been received by the Tourist Information Point Town Hall of Cartagena foot ladder, and have used the morning to walk the downtown streets, shops and bars, tasting local cuisine and visiting the landmarks in the old town: the Plaza Hall, the Palace Hall, Paseo del Muelle, the Roman Theatre, and Main Street.
S SECOND LARGEST CRUISE WORLD More arrived in October
In September they reached the port about 13,000 visitors aboard 10 cruise ships, among which are large ships such as the Eclipse Celebrity with a capacity of about 3,000 passengers, 315 meters long and 37 meters wide.
This ship will make four stops in September and October, the first next September 8.
However, the busiest months of the year will be October, when he will call more than 22,000 cruise tourists and 15.
Among them is the Liberty of the Seas, Royal Caribbean company, which is considered the second largest cruise ship in the world (behind sister ships Oasis of the Seas and Freedom of the Seas).
The Liberty will stop in Cartagena on Sunday October 30 with 3634 passengers on board.
The pier will receive this giant sea of ​​spectacular dimensions: 160,000 tons, a length of 340 meters and a width of 40 meters, and dramatic price: build it cost about $ 800 million.
Other large ships of Royal Caribbean also see again at the port in October, as the Mariner of the Seas and Voyager of the Seas, 311 meters long and about 138,000 tons, which are among the ten world's largest cruise ship.
The months of November and December the volume scale is reduced, and will cruise the 8840 visit us on board of eleven cruise in November, 7650 aboard four cruises in December.
With these figures, said the Councillor, and l cruise tourism has become one of the main contributions of Cartagena in promotional worldwide, and positions us as one of the main ports to visit.
When the year ends will have passed through Cartagena 100.00 more than cruisers, and about 60 different ships.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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