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Tuesday the mayor has received today a representation of municipal staff and volunteers who contributed to the success of the cultural event held on Saturday, which totaled 85 616 visitors, 20 percent more than last year

The Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, took stock, just over 48 hours elapsed, the edition of the Night of Museums held last Saturday in Cartagena, in which 85 616 people participated, once completed counting visits in all centers.

This figure makes it the most important cultural evening in the region, it is like filling five times the Cartagonova Stadium, recalling the mayor who, without all the volunteers and supporters who have contributed their anonymous work would not have been possible to make an ambitious programming and filled with art, culture and spectacle museums, malls and plazas of the city.

Compared to last year, there has been an increase of 20 percent participation.

In the 7th Night Illuminated, whose program included 170 activities have contributed directors and museum staff;

225 volunteers, 85 of them from the University;

Civil protection;

as well as municipal employees of various councils, which have received Tuesday at the Palace Hall, the thanks and recognition from the first municipal authority, which was accompanied by the mayors of Culture, Rosario Montero, and Youth, Ruth Collado.

Hundred intense hours that Cartagena has been filled to the rafters, literally to the flag of the port had people, or has been the Night of the Museums and successful participatory, are the phrases that the mayor has referred to an event whose essence was to bring culture to the people and has gone smoothly and without incident.

There is also the fact of hotel occupancy averaged 70 percent, demonstrating that it is an event begins to consolidate as a reference in the world of culture and tourist attraction, next to the Sea of Music Festival, the Jazz Festival or Cartagena Mandarache Prize.

The event ended with the presentation of a three-minute video in which an overview of what has been the most magical night of the city is collected.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena