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Garre visit the excavations of the Roman Forum Windlass Hill and meet the significant progress being made ​​in the recovery of archaeological heritage
The president of the Community, Alberto Garre, today showed support from the regional government to draft 'Home Port' for the city of Cartagena, "which will be a great boost for tourism and the economy, not only in this region but throughout the Region. "
Garre said the momentum that the regional government is giving the high speed train to the city or the forthcoming opening of the international airport, so that, Cartagena may choose to have this project 'Home Port'.
This was explained by the head of Murcia the end of his meeting today with the Mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, who visited town in the travel made by the various municipalities in the region.
Alberto Garre began this journey around taking up his position, and has visited Mazarrón, Alguazas and Cotillas Towers, Mula and Pliego, Aledo and Totana, Alhama de Murcia, Librilla, Torre Pacheco, Lorca, Jumilla, Yecla, Caravaca , Cehegín, Bullas, San Pedro del Pinatar and Los Alcazares, Ceuta, Lorquí, Archena and the Valley of Ricote, Sewer, Albudeite, Campos del Río, Cieza, Abarán, Blanca and Aguilas, Puerto Lumbreras and San Javier.
'Cartagena Puerto Home' is a project that tries to convert the city of Cartagena harbor basin based on a start and cruise port.
The Strategic Plan of the Region of Murcia 2014-2020 envisages the implementation of a 'Home Port' on the dock of Cartagena urban
This initiative stems from the spectacular growth registered cruise tourism in the region lately, since in the past seven years has tripled the number of scales and the five cruise passengers.
If you were 77 scales and about 85,000 cruise passengers in 2012, in 2013 went to 112 scales and 134,000 cruise passengers.
The Port Authority of Cartagena has developed a series of works to facilitate the scales at the cruise terminal, such as the extension of the berth, which has allowed the simultaneous berthing of two cruisers and increase the usable area of ​​the land.
In this sense, Garre said that "now more than ever, that in Cartagena can develop an infrastructure of this kind is required joint action by all governments and regional estates."
The main beneficiaries of the project would be the restoration industry and hotel and travel services companies, transport companies, finally the maritime port sector companies.
After the meeting with the mayor of Cartagena, the head of Murcia invite bids for the first phase of the Health Center of San Anton, in this city, which will be approved tomorrow by the Governing Council.
The Government will invest almost 600,000 euros (549,988.98 euros) to build a box that will house the Department of Pediatric Care, 7 queries, both medical and nursing, and related public areas and waiting rooms.
May also be incorporated into this building Area Care for Women.
Thus, the president said, "we fulfill the commitment to the city and the residents of this neighborhood."
Roman Forum, a "magnificent" example of private sponsorship
In your visit to Cartagena, the president was able to meet the advances that are occurring in the excavations of the Roman Forum Windlass Hill, which has been "magnificent" example of private sponsorship in recovering this space for the city and its heritage archaeological, in this case by the company Repsol.
Oil is committed, through the agreement signed with the city of Cartagena, to provide 4 million euros in three installments to complete the archaeological work and finish the housing estate originally projected.
Archaeological interventions Pinwheel Archaeological Park, which covers an area of ​​25,000 square meters, have focused on two areas.
The first, on top of the hill where the Pinwheel archaeological record has yielded remains of three walls of Punic, Roman and Renaissance Republican and, with them, the remains of a second century BC sanctuary dedicated to the Syrian goddess Atargatis and a second sanctuary with large terraces and access stairs to a temple datable italic tradition in the first century BC
In the bottom of the southeastern slope of the hill has been excavated, studied and conditioning block from Roman times, with two imperial era buildings: a spa and the 'Building atrium'.
In the latter building have been recovered and restored several pictorial cycles of immense historic and artistic value, dating from the second century AD have recently been found remains of boxes muses.
Excavations have been supervised and assisted by experts from the Directorate General of Cultural Heritage, led by José Miguel Noguera and José María Madrid.
Rush intervention in this block, open to the public with the name of the Roman Forum Barrio, was awarded the National Award for Restoration and Conservation of Cultural Property 2012.
Source: CARM
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