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The president of the Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, said today after the opening of the Museum and Roman Theatre of Cartagena, which is a big day, the city will transcend boundaries nations, because the work is of such architectural status that speaks for itself alone and is to be projected beyond the region and Spain, not only as a place for scholars, but to all visitors, as the great motor and cultural tourism. "

The recovery of the Roman Theatre of Cartagena is "the integration of one of the most amazing archaeological discoveries of Spain in the urban fabric of the city, with its proper maintenance and operation of educational and cultural purposes," said the chief executive of Murcia, who said that "there are other cities with monuments of this kind, but no one work this magnitude for the wisdom and the design museum has", which will, he said, "a far greater impetus to the great historical attraction of Cartagena."

The opening ceremony of the Roman Theatre Museum and was attended by the Mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, the Minister of Culture, Pedro Alberto Cruz, the Minister of Economy and Innovation, Inmaculada García, Minister of Tourism, José Pablo Ruiz Abellán and Vice President of the Foundation Teatro Romano, Carlos Egea, who formed part of the delegation which visited the Museo del Teatro Romano, accompanied by the architect, Rafael Moneo, creator of the impressive archaeological site.

Regarding the work done by Moneo, Valcárcel, welcomed as "it has done a great work and success has been full, to which he added that" it was necessary to restore this theater, which is the best that has been made under Augustus and throughout the Roman period. "

For the president of the Community, the recovery work of the Theatre and the construction of the Museum "was worth," so that "from this beautiful corner of Spain, which is Cartagena, offer the best to the world."

Before his monumental remains and the dimensions it had, with almost 90 meters diameter and a capacity overthe for 6,000 spectators, the Teatro Romano de Cartagena can understand the entity of the Roman city, which has come to certify the important role he played in the history of the ancient Hispanic.

In this way, the Museum was inaugurated today and open to the public, helps to protect and explain to all visitors this monumental building built in the century, under the government of Augusto.

The intervention in the archaeological and architectural and construction quality is only comparable to that in the theater of Marcellus (Rome), Flip (Pisa), Ostia (Roma) or harness (France), and join in the context Cartagena European cities for the architecture of Roman imperial times.

The architectural and museum is an amazing center that distributes its rooms between two buildings connected by an underpass and allows visitors to get from the city of Cartagena Square right up to the Roman Theatre, saving 25 meters in height and width of two streets .

The museum holds pieces from the excavation of the monument, among which some interests involved in the Capitoline triad that dominate the main hall of the Museum and in his time chaired the Theatre.

The partial overlap of the Old Cathedral on the top of the Roman theater, which is one of the greatest archaeological uniqueness of this is but the end result of a complex series of neighborhoods and structures that have made this area of the city a real history book, told from their material remains.

The project also considers other functional areas and communication from the administrative building, an exhibition with the remains in situ of the Theatre.

Also, the architect has brilliantly solved the complex topography and urban problems of the immediate surroundings and its relation to the archaeological site consisting of the Theatre and the Church of Santa Maria, being structured in three levels in which the remains are integrated archaeological Roman theater.

Spatial distribution

The new museum space, with the entrance opposite the Palace Hall, is divided into two separate buildings linked by an underground corridor.

A first building in its various plants includes service units such as a lobby, cafeteria, temporary exhibitions, library, archive and study rooms.

Meanwhile, a second body, situated to the front of the Old Cathedral, will be devoted to permanent exhibition rooms.

In the museum display is explained in a clear and didactic, urban development of the site of the theater from the current time, going back in time to the first century BC

It illustrates all the way with objects recovered from the excavations, as well as drawings, photographs, audio-visual history of this part of the city of Cartagena.

This itinerary will know the importance of Roman theaters were in antiquity, not only as recreational areas, but also as places of religious and political propaganda, personified in the case of Cartagena on the character of Emperor Augustus, Memorial Drive and whose statue, found in the Cartagena winch hill, has been placed in one of the main halls of the Museum.

The museum building contains in its spatial distribution all the necessary facilities for the visitor never loses time reference and history that is recovered, while setting the in situ conservation of archaeological remains of the theater and its immediate surroundings, while which is consolidated as a research and dissemination of cultural content.

Archaeological excavations

The restoration process 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 of the excavation: Elena Ruiz Sebastián Ramillo and boilers.

Have been excavated 25,000 cubic meters of land with archaeological methodology.

In the last three years of construction work have been done so complex and so technical and scientific rigor, which elsewhere have spent decades in them.

The beginning of the archaeological work was in October 1988 to make a first campaign of excavation at the site of the Casa-Palacio de la Condesa Peralta, to house the Regional Center for Crafts in Cartagena.

This first campaign provided a complex superimposition of structures and a rich architectural elements and heralded the importance of those buildings, which finally took shape in the year 1990, when he could identify the remains of the theater still very partial.

In the time period between 1996 and 2003, completed the almost total excavation of the theater, being able to perceive in all its grandeur and splendor, which advised the planning and conduct of a comprehensive project for the consolidation and restoration of their different parts overthe scene, porch, frons pulpiti, etc.

In studies and research over the recovery of the theater has become clear that building was used for a variety of materials, both indigenous (limestones, marbles Cabezo Gordo de Torre Pacheco, red sandstone and marble Mula) and material from Greece, carved in Rome and brought directly to Cartagena.

The creation of the Roman Theatre of Cartagena Foundation was instrumental in managing the entire project.

The council, the region and are Cajamurcia Roman Theater Foundation, which has been in charge of programming the excavations and comprehensive project for the recovery of the theater and its surroundings, which meant also greatly facilitate the streamlining of the process administrative and constructive.

Source: CARM