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In the metric system of ancient Rome, a distance of 1480 meters to be walked a thousand steps (milia passum) amounted to a Roman mile.
In fact, each step Roman equivalent to the distance of what is currently considered as two steps as representing full stride that makes one foot then lean on the opposite foot.
To indicate the distances between major cities on the banks of the most important milestones were placed roadways (Cairns), as stone columns, round or square, on which the distances separating the point were sculpted the mentioned cities, measured in thousands of steps or stages.
In Cartagena, despite the splendor and importance it had in Roman times, have not yet found milestones on the perimeter of the city or in different driveways or pathways that linked with other cities.
For this reason, the Federation troops and legions of the Festival of Carthaginians and Romans, on behalf of the entire festive collective, will award a Roman Milestone in the city of Cartagena.
As part of the Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Festival, the festive appreciate this Miliario all the support of the city, an essential for the consolidation of historic Cartagena Fiestas stone.
The Federation troops and legions also thanks the Department of Celebration of the City of Cartagena for their great cooperation in facilitating the necessary procedures for the location and placement of the Roman Milestone to be discovered in the first half of September.
This city embellishment, boost its tourist and cultural interest to carry sculpted distances separating different Carthago Nova Roman and Carthaginian cities-Rome, Tarraco, Lucus Augusti, Gades, Carthage, Numidia, along with a fragment of the work of Polybius that says "from the Pillars of Hercules to Carthago Nova's 1300 stadiums. began in this city Aníbal his expedition against Rome."
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