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Twenty years after its discovery, and twelve years after work started recovery, the Roman Theatre of Cartagena has been shown in all its glory.
This morning, the president of the Autonomous Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, and Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, along with other representatives of the Foundation which has led to successful completion of the recovery and reservoir management, as the president of Caja Murcia, Carlos Egea , and the project's architect, Rafael Moneo, opened the complex formed by the Museum and the Roman Theatre in a ceremony that brought together two hundred officials and personalities of Cartagena and the rest of the region.
The tour started in the old Palace of Pascual de Riquelme, restored as a museum to display important pieces and sculpture found during excavations and culminate at the Roman Theatre itself through underpasses that cross the remnants of the old cathedral.
Following the inaugural visit, President Valcárcel has described the set as fantastic, with the recovery of the world's best Roman theater built under Augustus.
Cartagena is opened and everyone with a work of this nature.
In addition, he noted that the Royal Family has agreed to visit the facility after the summer, having failed to attend any of its members at this time for reasons of agenda.
Valcárcel has said that the Roman Theatre transcend national boundaries and will be a place for scholars and curious.
Engine will also be a tourist, because the monumental success in the recovery stage and in the design of the museum will have such power of attraction than I ever knew Cartagena.
To this must be added the accessibility to the theater, with a recovery of the environment that also promotes the city.
The mayor, meanwhile, said that in 1996 it became a city project, supported by the regional government, knowing that the city could live their heritage resources.
A highlight has been the Roman Theatre, which does not mean it ends here, but ends the great exhibition of the great Cartagena heritage, archaeological and artistic and that puts us in a prime tourist location.
When you have a gem like this in their hands, must be put in the hands of the best, and that's how a project has gone as we are inaugurating today, he said.
The architect Rafael Moneo has explained the beginning of the project and working with archaeologists.
We have given the time required to bring to light what was hidden city, said the architect.
The main difficulty was the integration of a monument the size of it in the city and we succeeded, working around the perimeter and making all the points of contact with the City Theater is better and has found the path from the Palacio de Riquelme and into the bowels of the Theatre.
Moneo has ended by noting that we have not done anything but give the city what it already had.
The project has only make sense of a journey into the past of Cartagena.
Also thanked the team of archaeologists working in addition to the special commitment of Carlos Egea, Cajamurcia president of the company Saras Energy and Balibrea Vicente, president of the Fundación Teatro Romano.
The opening celebration will continue Friday afternoon and on Saturday and Sunday with open house for all citizens who want to come to know: Friday, 18 to 21 hours on Saturday, 10 to 20 hours, and on Sunday from 10 to 14 hours.
El Museo del Teatro Romano will join this summer and the tourist appeal of Cartagena, with facilities that help protect and explain this monumental building built in the century, under the government of Augusto.
The museum, created by Rafael Moneo, is an architecturally stunning center that distributes its rooms between two buildings connected by an underpass and allows visitors to get plaza from City Hall to the same Teatro Romano, saving 25 meters in height and width two streets.
THE THEATRE, THE LAST LIVING MUSEUM
Moneo has designed the set with the idea that the theater becomes the last room of their own museum.
Before you reach it, visitors learn about the complex process that has been necessary to recover the forgotten Roman building and buried for centuries under successive quarters until their discovery in the late nineties.
The museum holds pieces from the excavation of the monument, among which the interests involved in the Capitoline triad that dominate the main hall of the museum at the time chaired the Theatre.
The Roman Theatre in Cartagena was one of the most startling discoveries of archeology in recent years Spanish and can understand the entity should have the city in Roman times, its monumental remains have come to certify the important role it played in history the ancient Hispania.
The theater was built on the northern slope of Cerro de la Concepcion.
Its tier, with capacity for 6,000 spectators, is divided into three sectors.
The stage, more than 43 meters was a facade scenic background of almost 15 meters high with two architectural orders, in which the combination of the columns reds, whites of the capitals and bases, and gray on the podium and entablature cause an evocative play of colors.
The bases, cornices and capitals especially, reflect the size of the building, and with a rich ornamental program Cartagena transform the theater into a magnificent example of public architecture and monuments of the Augustan era.
The museum building contains all the necessary equipment to support the exposure of its funds to its role as a center of research and cultural content.
A three exhibition areas are in addition a conference room, a temporary exhibition hall and another room used mainly for school care.
It also has areas devoted to the enjoyment and entertainment of visitors shop, bookstore and cafeteria.
A REVERSIBLE RESTORATION
The first remains of the theater was located in 1988 during excavations after the demolition of the mansion of the Countess de Peralta, but it was not until 1990, when he got to know that work of a Roman theater.
After several sporadic excavations in 1996, Town Hall, Caja Murcia region and equip sufficient financial funds to expand the survey archaeologists, to buy and demolish homes in the area and be responsible for the recovery project with Rafael Moneo 2000.
The process of restoring the theater has been the result of a long process of study by a team of architects, archaeologists and planners led by Rafael Moneo and the co-directors and the excavation: Sebastian Ramallo and Elena Ruiz Valdez.
The TEAM of specialists had as its objective the recovery of a play within a comprehensive project that would achieve a monument to visitors and as a transmitter of the hallmarks of Roman Cartagena.
To this end, it established basic criteria of the process to replace with new construction in those places where the remains of the theater had disappeared completely, consolidate those other areas where the remains had been and to recover from the hits and the partial refund scenic facade aimed at a better understanding of the monument and enjoy the exhibition of the architectural elements that compose it.
All these works were the condition that they were reversible and did not involve any impact on the original elements.
This has been taken as the separation of original new work by a network of fiber geotextile strips a hypothetical removal, or the use of materials and techniques similar to those used by the builders.
The long journey undertaken in 1988 did not end with the restoration of the theater and the construction of the museum and park ledge and the adequacy of access, but will continue in the coming years to expand the excavation area to other places around the monument, which formed originally part of the whole.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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