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The Neighborhood of the Roman Forum can be visited throughout the month of March in a very special way.
Will the archaeologists who are working on this project for the first time who teach the latest findings made ​​since earlier this year continue excavations at the windlass.
The appointment must for lovers of archeology, is every Saturday this month forming four tours from different points of view and professional visits.
Cartagena, onlookers and tourists can see first hand so this work and see at a glance how the project develops, as this morning and explained the Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, while visiting these facilities.
Saturday morning begin this route to better understand how they lived at the time.
The first of these visits, A walk in the neighborhood of the Roman Forum is a tour of the spa, banquet halls and other building Atrium rooms recovered.
Archaeologists Víctor García Velasco and Victoria will be in charge this time to make guides for a few hours.
The second of the visits will be on March 15 under the title of Neighborhood Roadways Roman Forum, in which the director of the excavations, M ª José Madrid, teach the ancient Roman roads.
Day 22 The Forum will Carthago Nova, Hand co-director of this project, José Miguel Noguera.
A special project for the great archaeological park of the Roman Forum and the changes to the Plaza de San Francisco time.
The last of the visits will be given by the director of restoration, Izaskun Martínez, and the restorer of the Roman Forum Barrio, José Angel Ojaos, who will show the restored paintings and new discoveries made.
In addition to these tours, attendees will enjoy these quotes exposure of the remains found in previous excavations and are now collected in a sample in Decuman, located next to the Plaza de los Tres Reyes.
Thus, visitors will see, among other pieces, a fragment of marble with an inscription of an order of the local senate, or Polyhymnia, a sculpture depicting the muse of lyric poetry sacred.
Is also issued in this space reveal a documentary urbanism in the cities of the Roman Empire, focusing on Maximum Decuman of Carthago Nova and everyday public spaces.
PROJECT
The excavations are funded by the Repsol Foundation and promoted by the City Council through Cartagena Port of Cultures. One of the findings in this first phase is the sewer system used in the first century, as the central pipe that collects water rain and downspouts Neighboring buildings, today said the co-director of excavations, M ª José Madrid, who added that so we can know with these infrastructures functioning of cities in those years.
Right now, for example, archaeologists and restorers working on the remains of several fallen walls of the interior of the top floor of the building and smaller rooms that appear bright colored.
They are also working in one of the banquet rooms of the Atrium Building where they found several paintings on the walls.
According to the archaeologist, this summer will be open to the public this area, the insula I, corresponding to the first phase of this project, if no surprise, even though the work of restoration of wall paintings continue underway.
After the first phase, the project is completed with three others, consisting recovery Shrine insula II, the upper terrace of the forum (Capitol) and the bottom (curia and square).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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