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The Fort Christmas will be in the coming months leading to various activities organized by Cartagena Puerto de Culturas for this year's celebration of its tenth anniversary, cultural and recreational activities under the theme navigation and stars, will take place between 7 October and 13 November.
Councillor for Tourism, Palazón Carolina, and the Puerto de Culturas manager, Agustina Martinez, were in charge of these activities present today, starting with the photo exhibition Turning the past into the future, reflecting the process of restoring the Fort Christmas defensive battery as the first recovered from the bay of Cartagena, to become Interpretation Centre of defensive architecture of the city and the Mediterranean, also offering a viewpoint.
The focus of activities revolves around the exposure Navigation and the stars, a visit that will describe the art of navigation from the days when the stars came to guide the evolution of the different tools to navigate, as astrolabes, compasses, sextants, chronometers, supported by mapping of high artistic quality.
Fort Christmas will become a great ship of the nineteenth century, with the recreation of a bridge and its various instruments.
This exhibition has been provided by the Naval Museum in Cartagena.
On the other hand will be visited at night sailing under the stars. The Fort Christmas will become an observatory where you remember the art of navigating using the stars as a guide.
To do this, it has enjoyed the cooperation of members of the Astronomical Society of Cartagena, who will teach at the sky as they did centuries ago, the discoverers of new worlds.
It will be Friday night October 21 and November 11, departing at 20.30 hours.
As for leisure activities, more focused on children and families, including workshops and theatrical.
Thus, the sailors knots workshop will teach the children to move into this art of hand real war sailors, volunteers from the Naval Museum in Cartagena.
Sunday will be September and 23 October and 6 November at 12:00 hours.
In addition, another workshop, the astronomers Small children will learn how guided sailors through the stars and build a solar system in motion.
Will take place on Sunday 16 and October 30 and November 13 in collaboration with the Astronomical Association of Cartagena.
Both workshops are aimed at children aged 6 to 12 years.
Finally, Morato Arraez will star in a theatrical visit to the Pirate Fortress approach of Christmas.
The pirate ship will come in the scale of tourism in the port and guided by the stars Fort Christmas will struggle with the gunners who inhabit the imposing fortress. It will be on Saturdays from October 8 to November 12 at 11:30 hours.
To make these special activities is required upon reservation. Information and reservations: 968 50 00 93
THE RISE OF FOREIGN TOURISTS NÚMERO
At the International Tourism Day, celebrated today, and although not yet closed the year, the Councillor for Tourism, Palazón Carolina, has advanced a significant figure in the balance of 2011, and that while the number of visitors coming into the city remains, has detected an increase in the number of foreign tourists who visit us, largely by the continuing arrival of cruise ships call.
Considering that for the fourth quarter we expect to receive about 6,000 cruisers still, one can say that our expectations in the number of visits are more than covered, pointed Palazón.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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