The mayor, Jose Lopez, received this morning at the the Minister of Culture, Noelia Arroyo Palace, and the Secretary General of such counseling, José Vicente Albaladejo, who had requested the visit to discuss matters of importance for the municipality and the Autonomous Region has been leading the local government, being the Amphitheatre has been the focus of the meeting.
At first it has been confirmed by both parties that the Roman Amphitheater Foundation, which once constituted, is not the best form of cooperation between administrations, so it is extinct in the near future in hand.
Subsequent it discussed the draft partial excavation that the City wants to undertake immediately, asking the mayor to the minister that the CARM support and, if possible, participate in the project because of its importance to the city, but also because it would be next to Teatro Romano a new tourist attraction of the first order to the region.
The idea is that the technicians of both administrations, local and regional, work hand in hand in many phases necessary.
The first phase will consist of a performance by about three months, which would occur beginning in the first quarter of 2016, which will retrieve and museumization around a third of the field.
The next phases, unless private financing is obtained, will depend on the development of a master plan in which the two administrations would be coordinated, to continue after the excavation, to the extent that funding and support from other administrations is obtained as 1 , 5 percent of the Ministry of Culture, or to qualify for European funding.
The mayor has also claimed recovery CEHIFORM, the Photographic Historical Center of the Region of Murcia, whose headquarters was the Aguirre Palace, and that after his transfer to the Casa del Niño, left Cartagena to be paralyzed the project, meeting today in the Regional Archives in the city of Segura.
The Minister said that in the medium to long term CARM attend this request, but at present it is impossible to perform this action.
However the current shortage of resources, before finally returning, the return to Cartagena CEHIFORM since mayor and counselor have agreed to make an exhibition in the city in the near future where exposure to this heritage that has been digitized in its entirety.
It has also been agreed between the two administrations to study formulas for joint exhibition spaces Marifí collection, whose owner has shown interest in it is exposed in Cartagena.
At the meeting they have been incorporated after the council of Archaeological Heritage, Ricardo Segado and Culture, David Martinez, who have dealt with the minister and the mayor other matters of heritage as the opening to the public and rehabilitation of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Spain, the rehabilitation of the hermitages of Monte Miral Calamarí or villa, and the creation of paths of Sierra de Cartagena mining and cultural affairs, the minister requesting more support for major music festivals in the city, as the jazz or the Sea of ​​Music, hitherto not receive financial assistance from the Ministry while other events in the region, such as SOS or the Cante de las Minas if they receive.
Finally both administrations have given notice to maintain technical meetings on these issues will begin next week with the Amphitheatre, and invited the Minister to attend 27th and 28th at conferences on culture and municipality organized by the municipality of Cartagena.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena