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Councillor Palazón Carolina, favorite daughter of the Bona Dea (15/09/2014)

With the arrival of the Festival of Carthaginians and Romans Roman patrician gather to celebrate a few days before a traditional dinner, exclusively for women.

This is the Brotherhood of the Bona Dea, whose award of Favourite Daughter falls this year on the 25th anniversary of the celebrations, the Councillor for Tourism, Palazón Carolina.

The mayors of woman, Clara Hall, or Celebration, Florentina Garcia, director of the Museum of the Roman Theatre, Elena Ruiz, or the now general director of Cultural Property, Maria Comas have been other women who also received this award in previous years.

The Brotherhood of the Bona Dea is a group of Roman patrician women who are next to Emilia Paula, wife of General Scipio.

Emilia Paula and the brotherhood of the Bona Dea dinner held during the first days of September have a place where only women as in antiquity.

A chance to drink wine as they were prohibited.

Their husbands obviously did not know that made them believe that at that dinner only drank milk.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

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