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Atrolabios, compasses, steering wheels and even the oldest surviving map that appears in the Americas, the year 1500, you can see in the exhibition 'Navigation and the stars' within the activities of the tenth anniversary of the Port of Cultures
El Fuerte de Navidad, Cartagena relic built in the reign of Isabel II, these days it becomes a great ship of the nineteenth century that houses inside all the instruments necessary for navigation from the recreation of a bridge to charts of unique historical value.
Among the activities of the tenth anniversary of Cartagena Puerto de Culturas the exhibition is named 'Navigation and the stars', and will be open to the public at Fort Christmas October 7 to November 13 as explained the Councillor for Tourism, Palazón Carolina, this morning visited the exhibition with the manager of the consortium, Agustina Martinez, director of the Naval Museum, José Jorge Madrid.
The exhibition covers various techniques and tools used by sailors throughout history for guidance in the sea, and includes instruments such as astrolabes, compasses, steering wheels or cartographic maps of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, donated by Cartagena Naval Museum.
Among them is a facsimile of the maps drawn by the Columbus brothers in 1492 or, as explained by Jose Jorge Madrid, the jewel in the crown: the first Universal mapping used for navigation and includes the Americas, which was drawn by Spanish explorer and cartographer Juan de la Cosa of the year 1,500.
In addition to this exhibition, visitors can take a tour of the construction process at Fort Christmas and rehabilitation since 2005 until today.
In addition, models can be discovered by dónode strategic defenses were located in the port of Cartagena in the late nineteenth century, or about life in the fort of the Spanish soldiers who made it their home and work place two centuries ago.
ACTIVITIES IN THE FORT OF CHRISTMAS
Five other activities of programming in the Tenth Anniversary of Puerto de Culturas at Fort Christmas
- The photo exhibition Turning the past into the future, setting out the different stages of restoration and rehabilitation of Fort Christmas.
- Visit The pirate theatrical approach of Fort Christmas, to explain to the little curiosities and anecdotes by and mapping tools used in their great deeds at sea.
Every Saturday from 8 October to 12 November at 11.30 hours, departing from the tourist boat in the Port Scale.
- The workshop of Knots sailors, with the collaboration of the Naval Museum, which will be on Sundays in January and 23 October and 6 noviebre at 12.00 (with optional tour boat departure at 11.30).
- Another workshop, Small astronomers, who will on Sunday 16 and 30 October and 13 November at 12.00 hours (with optional tour boat departure at 11.30), with the collaboration of the Association Astronomical Cartagena.
- Finally, the visit will be carried out under the stars at night surfing, which will convert to Fort Christmas in an observatory where members of the Astronomical Society of Cartagena will teach us to look to the sky as the explorers did centuries ago.
The nocturnal visits will be on 21 October and 11 November with two shifts at 20.30 and 21.30, with limited seating by reservation.
Remember that the price of the activities at Fort Christmas is 3.5 euros.
The fee for boat Fort Christmas is 8 euros.
The schedule of Fort Christmas is Tuesday to Sunday from 10.30 to 18.30 hours.
Reservations and registration in the workshops can be done on the phone 968.50.00.93.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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