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The mayor visited this morning the excavation of this site will hold a open day on Sunday 28th July from 09.30 to 13.30 hours approximately.
Entries must be made to the Office of Tourism of the City of Cartagena
On Sunday July 28, the Cueva Victoria Cartagena hold an open house. This was announced this morning the Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, who has visited the work being carried out in this field, and which has had with explanations of the director of the excavations, Luis Gibert.
At the same, also attended the council of Health, Ángel Nicolas Bernal, Culture, Rosario Montero, and Tourism Palazón Carolina and the Municipal Archaeological Museum coordinator Enrique Escudero de Castro, Maria Comas.
Through these campaigns, the importance of this cave mining is discovering for the general public, in the words of Barreiro, who said that this visit of about 400 m inside the field, will be shorter than at other times because from the municipal government wants to continue working in research.
The tourist must go behind the research scientist.
Backed by the success of last year, people repeat the visit will witness substantial change that has experienced this cave, more spectacular if possible.
In addition to discovering new galleries, entrance and exit shall be located at different sites, showing the public the true extent of the Cueva Victoria, in the words of Gibert.
Thus, the itinerary is designed so that for the first time, visitors to tour the inside of the two main galleries.
The tour of this site, which is formed over a million years and where along the various excavations have found fossils of several species of vertebrate animals, cover, roughly three areas: l Cave mining history of Victoria, the importance of paleontological, and speleological aspects and issues that are currently being investigated.
The visit to the cave is not only to look to the past.
And, its importance is such that the study of calcite deposits to know its composition, with over 800,000 years of history, it may help to know how climate has changed in the Region of Murcia. The story is written in these deposits of Cueva Victoria, stressed Gibert.
Furthermore, without losing sight of the historical thread, is the second oldest in the world dating to date.
Also, other attractions of this is that Victoria Cave visitors will have the opportunity to see from the inside, the only site of existing fossil vertebrates in the Region of Murcia, which was established on the eastern slope of Cerro de San Gines Jara naturally the more than 1.1 million years ago. In the last campaign were located more than 400 new fossils, including human bones and primate.
This open ornate j be held on Sunday July 28th at approximately 09.30 hours to 13.30 hours.
The visits will be organized into groups of about thirty people entering the cave go every half hour.
Entries are to be performed at the Office of Tourism of the City of Cartagena (968.12.89.55).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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