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The Town Hall hosts throughout the day Wednesday the meeting of international experts, specialists in Roman architecture, Roman amphitheaters and economic issues with which we will try to relaunch the project to restore the amphitheater in Cartagena and is organized by the scientific directors of the excavation, Carmen Berrocal, who is also coordinator of the Municipal Archaeological Heritage, and Jose Perez.

This meeting, which started early in the morning with a detailed site visit, attend a number of experts, the director of the Institute of Historical Heritage of the Ministry of Culture, Alfonso Munoz, and technicians from the region and of the townhall.

According Berrocal, this is an opportunity to know what is done in other arenas, not only in Spain, there are experts Segóbriga, Tarragona and Valencia, but from other countries, has also been a specialist in Switzerland, all with a background very important.

The aim is to share experiences and develop a draft setting out the guidelines for action for the future, which will be refined in new contacts. Among the projects that we have in portfolio, recalled Carmen Berrocal, there is an intervention in 2016, one spot excavation in three specific areas in which we want financing between 1.5 percent culture, for which you must have a Director to the Autonomous Community undertook to pay Plan.

So far, the specialists have gathered in Cartagena have been impressed with the condition of the amphitheater that in the half of these deposits is in Spain, it is one of the four with associate Theatre and Amphitheatre and are monumental, but ours is the only one without digging.

Berrocal also announced that the idea is that from day one, the excavation is visitable, we plan even recover Autopsies Pavilion to provide information about the process and enable citizens to see how it is recovering.

The group of experts met today at the Palace Hall, were received on Tuesday afternoon by the mayor, Jose Lopez, with whom he exchanged views on the future of the Roman Amphitheatre.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena