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If the mayor stressed that this project brings together tourism and research, Repsol Chairman said that the signing of this cooperation agreement with the city of Cartagena to recover the Neighborhood of the Roman Forum is a sign of commitment the company has with Society
The mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, and Repsol Chairman Antonio Brufau, initialed in the afternoon, Monday 22 July, a collaboration agreement for the recovery of the Barrio del Foro Romano in the archaeological park of the windlass.
With this agreement, Repsol will invest more than 4 million euros that will end this archaeological project which will create a z one exhibition in the noble part of the Roman city, with 4,000 square meters of exhibition.
The event, which took place at the site itself, also attended by members of the Municipal Corporation, the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, the vice president of the Repsol Foundation, Cesare Gallo, the director general of Communication and Chair, Begoña Elices, and the director of the Cartagena Refinery, Juan Antonio Carrillo.
I feel Repsol and proud, as mayor, to have been able to witness the development of the most important refinery Spain, in the words of Barreiro, who during his speech, thanked Repsol's involvement in this new project which allows the ancient architecture of the city is the engine of tourism. But besides the tourism aspect, the mayor has highlighted the researcher look the same. Repsol is an example of how a company not only cares about the production, but also to maintain the commitment to society itself.
A collation of the latter, Brufau said that the heading of this project is a sign of social responsibility they have as a company, that goes beyond mere industrial production.
And, the company collaborates annually in more than fifty social action initiatives and culture in the city. Cartagena can boast of having the best refinery in Europe.
We owe everything to Cartagena, concluded Brufau.
After this act of party, as has been described by the chairman of Repsol, the mayor of Cartagena has explained to the representatives of the company where the performance will take place that will be divided into four phases of work is scheduled for completion in 2017 and that aims to make this area of Cartagena in one of the largest urban archaeological museums in the country.
The project to restore the Roman Forum District expects to complete the excavation of the Atrium building, recovery of a shrine located in an outbuilding, a large terrace on which rise the Capitoline temple was chairing the forum, you will find the roads that surrounding all this space and create an interpretation center explaining to citizens that ancient Roman area of ​​Cartagena.
The goal is to complete the excavation and open to visitors and tourists the ancient Roman Cartagena area most public, from the baths to the health center in Old Town with rivers will open an interpretive center of the windlass.
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The expansion of the Cartagena refinery, which was allocated 3,150 million, was the largest industrial investment in the history of Spain and one of the key projects in the strategy of Repsol.
It will improve the trade balance in Spain, and will significantly reduce automotive fuel imports.
The exploitation of the new refinery involved the creation of 800 jobs and another 800 in own contractors, as well as induced employment estimated at more than 8,000 people.
In the extension works involving some 20,000 people, with daily peaks of more than 7,700 workers.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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