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The mayor, Jose Lopez, and the Councillor for Culture, Education and Equality, David Martinez Noguera, received this afternoon, about 17.30 pm in the Roman Theatre in Cartagena participants Scipionis Road project: an activity of experimental archeology which commemorates the departure of Scipio and departed 15 days ago from Amposta and has traveled 460 kilometers.
At the reception also attended by representatives of the Festival of Carthaginians and Romans, led by its president, Javier Ibernon.
In the year 209 a.
C., During the second war between Carthage and Rome, known as the Second Punic War, the Roman consul Scipio concentrated his troops at Camp Nova Classis (recently located in Amposta) with the intention of marching against the city of Qart- Hadasht (Cartagena), Carthaginian military base and main port in the Iberian Peninsula.
According to narrates the historian Polybius, one of the most reliable sources for this period was able to interview veterans of that war, that army of two legions (20,000 men), walk the distance traveled between two points in seven days.
In total, more than 460 km, with an average of 60 km.
up to date.
To commemorate this event, a group of volunteers called by archaeologist Jose Miguel Gallego Cañamero, have come walk the same distance but in 15 days, following the original route of the ancient Via Augusta, which in turn, took advantage of the layout of the Via Heraklea and the Way of Hannibal, the Carthaginian advantage built by tracing prehistoric ancient livestock roads, transhumance and communication period characterized as legionaries or auxiliary troops Iberian baggage included in a single project and fully pioneer in the Iberian Peninsula.
Every evening has mounted a symbolic representation of a small Roman military camp Castrum or where it has been disclosed how the daily life of a legion in s.
III.
C.
The march has gone through four regions, five provinces and 15 municipalities, with a daily average distance of 30 km.
In this first edition the number of participants has been 9 people (¿manípulo¿, equivalent to current ¿pelotón¿ and logistical support person), characterized as members of the Legionaries Republican bodies (Veles, princeps, hastatus, triarius ) but also reenactors representing cultures who supported Rome as Allied troops from the peoples of the Iberian Peninsula (Ilergetes, indiketes, edetanos¿) or the Italian peninsula (Samnites, Etruscans, capuos, campanos¿).
The camp will be established this afternoon at the Cuesta del Batel.
Route Section 1: Amposta (T) - Traiguera (CS), 36km.Tramo 2: Traiguera (CS) - Les Coves de Vinromà (CS), 32 km.Tramo 3: Les Coves de Vinromà (CS) - Borriol (CS) 36 km.Tramo 4: Borriol (CS) - Nules (CS), 31 km.Tramo 5: Nules (CS) - Sagunto (V), 26 km.Tramo 6: Sagunto (V) - Valencia (V) 27 km.Tramo 7: Valencia (V) - Algemesí (V), 36 km.Tramo 8: Algemesí (V) - XÃ tive (V), 29 km.Tramo 9: XÃ tive (V) - Moixent (V) 27 km.Tramo 10: Moixent (V) - Caudete (AL), 32 km.Tramo 11: Caudete (AL) - Elda (A), 34 km.Tramo 12: Elda (A) - Elche (A), 28 km. Section 13: Elche (A) - Rojales (A), 23 km.Tramo 14: Rojales (A) - Pilar de la Horadada (M), 31 km.Tramo 15: Pilar de la Horadada (A) - Cartagena (M) 35 km.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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