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This Friday July 12th will be the second exit off the theatrical route, Nova Cartahgo Stroll with their characters, organized by the Department of Tourism, whose starting point is the Roman Theatre Museum from 11.30
Time stops every Friday in July and August in Cartagena for two hours to take us to the third century BC when Qart Hadasht, renamed by the Romans as Carthago Nova, experienced its greatest cultural splendor, economic and social.
Having become one of the most outstanding urban Hispania, the city is immersed in the construction of buildings that centuries later this port town become a national and international tourism reference.
This jump in time is possible thanks to the theatrical route, Carthago Nova Stroll with their characters, located within the summer program of Cartagena Port of Cultures, organized by the Department of Tourism for the summer months, with the aim of boosting tourism in the city.
The cicerones charged to visitors relive the past of this Roman city are Marco and Octavia, Albino family members, employer of Carthago Nova.
Thus, the first of the stops for this ancient city begins at the Roman Theatre built under Emperor Augustus, and replacing the wood above.
Marco reports that one of the concerns of this Emperor, provoking further commissioning, was the sound.
With capacity for 6,000 spectators, the Roman Theatre and the Forum once became the focal point of this city facing the sea. An open, safe and full of light, in the words of Octavio, serving the civilians of this town .
Along with the Roman Theatre in 1999 declared of cultural interest, and which complies Museum on Thursday July 11 its fifth anniversary, the amphitheater, dated before, emerged as other major buildings.
And, as pointed Marco, the city of Carthago Nova was becoming urban design to pool in your landscape with these two important buildings.
At the end of what is now the Museum of the Roman Theatre in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, with views of the harbor on one side, and the iconic Town Hall the other, visitors set sail for the central streets of the Old Town, to the neighborhood of the Roman Forum, the s other hallmarks of the archaeological wealth of the Cartagena today.
Hidden for more than twenty centuries, visitors stop at the Atrium area, devoted to banquets and religious worship of gods like Isis and Serapis.
But also to the thermal, venue par excellence, composed of the cold room, warm and hot.
Furthermore, during this second stop in his speech recalled Octavia the importance of water once, and that persists even further today.
The finale to this route is starring theatrical visit to the House of Fortune, where they are the remains of two Roman houses and a highway. Some of the rooms of the domus are the bedrooms, the triclinium for banquets or tablinum or office.
The archaeological importance of this house lies also in the original paintings and mosaics that still remain, along with the inscription Fortuna propitia, or what is the same, Good Luck.
It also has Octavia at the end of this first visit which took place on Friday, July 5, and as anecdotal data, before the floor of the Roman house was clay, but that his friend Vitruvius replaced it with hydraulic mortar.
It's the best and I recommend it because it is absorbent and durable, to laughter from the components of this first group.
This Friday, July 12, will be held the second of these routes dramatized by Carthago Nova, from 11.30 hours, and from the Roman Theatre Museum. The price of it is 12 euros.
Marco and Octavia take leave of their first visitors referring to the Roman as Rome Cartagena small, that still remains standing memories of its history.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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