Portal de Cartagena
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Residents of the town of Cartagena have donated part of their memories for the visitor to discover the life that led our past generations.
One of the oldest treasures of this collection is a combination of two hundred years ago
The Ethnographic Museum of the Ports of Santa Barbara is eleven years a place to travel through time, in those years in which the milk was going door to door and the trap served as a taxi. All residents of this Cartagena town have put their two cents with donations of objects of that era, from the nineteenth century to the twentieth.
This is the case of Juana Ros, also of the Neighborhood Association, and one of those responsible for the visitor to discover the intricacies of rural life then.
Part of what is presented has been part of their day to day as a little girl and now recalls with fondness and longing: Although we were eight brothers and my mother was left alone when my father died, we learned to make do how outside no bells and no frills like we have today.
Here the visitor can find a school notebook of 1942, women's underwear was fashionable in the 50s, a jug, a cot, a club or wooden wagon.
With these objects the visitor discovers the customs of a time when the bride gave him a handkerchief to her suitor to remember her during military service or in the kitchen when there was no refrigerator, but crisper, and when to walk fireplace made crumbs.
A ROBE OF 200 YEARS
Has also changed the trade.
And, for example, was the Milkman himself who went outside to fill glass bottles neighbors. To travel from place to place resorted to the trap, which was used as travel service to the city to go to the doctor or on special occasions such as baptisms and weddings.
In this museum you can also see the costumes of the babies became during his baptism.
Pesetas or lottery tickets also testify to that time, as one of the oldest treasures of this museum, or combination of a girl na 200 years ago. A score of wedding photographs are proof of that life in which the bride also wore black.
A few meters from the building where these treasures are kept, is located in the Campo de Cartagena, a Ferris wheel on a donkey still turns to draw water.
Another attraction that attracts the interest of children and older was reminded how rural life and, ultimately, his own. Now I show my grandchildren and are surprised we did before, the manner of dress , traveling from one place to another or to have drinking water, explains Joan.
A dozen neighbors are responsible for updating this museum, whose collection themselves classified and ordered to be exposed to the public.
Now they also have guides telling stories that have experienced firsthand at the time.
An average of fifteen hundred people visited last year this landmark located in the west of Cartagena, in the council of the ports of Santa Barbara.
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Winter hours: Sundays from 16:30 to 20:00
Summer hours: Sundays from 18:00 to 20:30.
For groups can arrange another time
Information telephone: 968163024-968520572 - 968512562 to 630734058
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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