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This afternoon we signed the charter of the Executive Committee will manage the project for bid Cartagena to the category of Cultural Landscape of Humanity.

The signatories of the Act have been the Mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro;

Rector of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, José Antonio Franco Leemhuis;

the director general of the International Centre for Conservation Foundation Heritage, Miguel Ángel Fernández Matrán, and Admiral Arsenal Cartagena, Fernando Zumalacárregui.

As stated by the mayor, the signing of the document implies a commitment to the four institutions working to advance the project Cartagena, Cultural Landscape of Humanity.

He has also pointed out that the Foundation found that CICOP Cartagena offers heritage, archaeological, scenic, historical and cultural values ​​to develop a solid project and get the recognition of UNESCO.

It will be a project, he said Barreriro, participatory, to be held jointly with the University as a center of learning and research and whose relationship with the Navy Cartagena has determined the path for centuries.

This declaration by UNESCO appreciates the landscape and its evolution, the transformation experienced as a result of social, economic constraints.

For the mayor of Cartagena urban landscape has undergone a transformation in recent years, a transformation brought about by the archaeological discoveries, the redevelopment of the port, the creation of the University, the opening of Cartagena Port of Cultures.

If we add all interventions added Barreiro, we see that there has been an evolutionary process: the town has changed a number of conditions and has ceased to be a grim and dark area to become an attractive place for citizens and significant resources to attract tourists.

The recovery of assets has received the recognition of organizations and institutions of national and international prestige: the awards he has received the Roman Theater, and the Europa Nostra, or the neighborhood of the Roman Forum, National Fine Arts Award 2013.

Now it is all that enormous leverage work, presenting it as a joint project of the city to get UNESCO recognition.

The project will be presented this afternoon at the Cartagena society to achieve the greatest possible support, by the CICOP Foundation.

It will be at 18 am in the Auditorium of the Museum of the Roman Theatre.

Finally the Mayoress has warned that it is trabajarcon start a roadmap that has scored the Foundation on a project that requires time for processing, no rush, what matters is the end result.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena