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The mayor, on behalf of the Municipal Corporation, has expressed grief and sorrow at the death yesterday, aged 91, of San Pedro Martín Moro, principal precursor and father of archeology in Cartagena, along with the also now defunct Antonio Beltran.
Born in Valladolid in 1921, Pedro San Martin in 1953 earned a degree in architecture from the School of Architecture of Madrid.
After preparing oppositions, in 1954 he was sent to the tax office as an architect of Cartagena, where he discovered his passion and talent for archeology.
The same year that comes to town is local commissioner appointed Archaeological Excavations, where undertaken numerous projects, audits and surveys, and takes over from Antonio Beltran in the defense of the study and preservation of archaeological remains that appear through the numerous interventions undertaken in the Old Town.
He is credited with greatly developing the first archaeological museum created by Antonio Beltrán and who was director from 1956 until his retirement, and the preservation of numerous remains in situ, within the urban fabric, and accessible to public.
The Decumano, the Roman Theatre, the Amphitheatre, the Roman Baths, the Pinwheel Arequeológico Park, and Old Cathedral, to name the most important ones, have been associated with the research work and archaeological San Pedro Marin, the archaeologists city ​​regarded as the father of archeology Cartagena.
He is also behind the discovery in 1967 of the necropolis of San Anton, where his initiative the City built the present houses the Archaeological Museum around the site to allow in situ conservation, inaugurated in 1982.
The Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena, in the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the first Municipal Archaeological Museum in 1943 by Antonio Beltrán, was due to pay this year, in life, a tribute of appreciation and gratitude to Pedro San Martin Moro, a person who despite his great work, always maintained to a very discreet.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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