Today, Tuesday April 23, we celebrate World Book Day, and the city of Cartagena has added another year to the celebration.
Not only do the libraries have taken to the streets different stories to highlight in this special day, the value of words and the importance of reading.
Thus, and in April programming book, launched yesterday, organized by the Municipal Libraries Network Cartagena, in collaboration with the city, about forty people participated in the first Literary Route for Cartagena, which complements the existing Carmen Conde, from the year 2007 on the occasion of its centennial.
It is precisely the Carmen Conde Board along with the Library Network which organized this literary journey in which fragments are rescued works very relevant authors, who for various reasons, birth, feeling Cartagena or reference to any corner of the city have to Cartagena between their lines.
Cartagena is a land of writers, stressed Paquita Sabater technique public libraries in the city. Some authors of all time said, while this cultural route runs through the streets of the Old Town, stopping at the verses dedicated to the actor Moratinos Isidoro Máiquez Cartagena.
But also, Antonio Oliver, Commander Villamartin, and recent authors like Maria Duenas or Arturo Perez Reverte.
The verses of Carmen Conde in the Port of Cartagena will be the culmination of this literary tour, which began in Valverde Chronicler Square at 10.30 am in the morning.
Although from the Department of Tourism is working in print, both in Spanish and English, this route Sabater stressed that this p assage literary individually can do because it is already available in pdf format , along with the big news, the audioguide .
On the occasion of World Book Day, Hannibal also CEIP Los Mateos has joined the commemoration, while several city libraries have launched, Read has prize, or what is the same, if you use the service loan, they give you a book.
We tried that libraries are alive, not only on this day, says Paquita, who says that although the number of activities has been reduced by the economic situation, the success of initiatives such as classic meetings with authors, with more than 3,500 participants from child until the last primary cycle, supporting those educational and cultural activities.
PARALLEL INITIATIVES IN A BOOK DAY
El Diario La Opinion, in collaboration with public libraries Cartagena, Cartagena has distributed among 5,000 specimens from various authors, on the occasion of the celebration of World Book Day.
Throughout all morning, people have come to the delegation of the newspaper in Cartagena, located in the Town Hall Square, where they waited for the doors a table full of books wanting to be owned and be read.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena