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XXIV issuing the Ruta Quetzal BBVA arrive on July 12 in Cartagena, from Chile, with 270 young people between 16 and 17 years from 54 different countries.
The mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, received this morning at the Palace Hall the creator of this map, Miguel de la Quadra Salcedo, and the director of the Repsol refinery in Cartagena, Francisco Vazquez, who will work with the fuel aid Spanish Navy ship.
The expedition will be received in Valencia by the Kings of Spain and therefore sailed to Cartagena aboard the amphibious ship 'Galicia' of the Spanish Armada, and later to Malaga, Tangier and Cadiz.
In Cartagena the routers examine the importance of Juan Fernandez, Cartagena Spanish sailor who discovered in the sixteenth century the Chilean archipelago that bears his name and will be one of the major travel destinations.
Young people about the history and receive instruction on the city's Roman past at the archaeological site of the Roman Theatre, reviving the epic decision of Carthage by Scipio and his confrontation with Hannibal.
As he said the mayor, and the visits that will be issued, in the city is the Teatro Romano and Vicenta Groups Mina, La Union, in addition to the Repsol plant, and try to recreate the wedding of Hannibal and Himilce by Federation troops and legions.
Also, visit the Dive Center of the Navy in Cartagena and perform various activities.
As every year, with the support of the Fabrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre, a coin was minted, which will be the currency of Barques, Hannibal, Hasdrubal son, founder of Cartagena.
The silver was used in these pre-Roman times was silver in the mine of La Union, situated a few kilometers from Cartagena.
This is the third time that the route goes to Cartagena Quetzal.
The first was in July 1998, where he visited the Old Cathedral and the Roman Theatre.
Later, the expedition returned to the city in July 2003.
Miguel de la Quadra Salcedo Quetzal has been defined as a university route navigator.
Youth learn to be men, out and away from their surroundings, away from the embarrassment of being.
Learn to value family and discover who they are.
You learn to respect other civilizations, said.
Ruta Quetzal BBVA 2009
Under the name Road to Robinson Crusoe Island.
La Tierra de Juan Fernandez in Chile, the expedition will travel next month from June to Chile, where they will be for three weeks.
They will visit the Island of Robinson Crusoe, one of the three islands discovered by Juan Fernandez in 1574, where the Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk landed and lived for only four and a half years, from 1704 to 1709.
Selkirk was the inspiration for Daniel Defoe for his famous book Robinson Crusoe adventure.
Young people study astronomy in the Chilean coast, cross the territory of the Mapuche, an ethnic group that inspired the Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla, Santiago de Chile will know and will follow the trail poetry of Pablo Neruda in Isla Negra and Valparaíso.
Later cross the Atlantic to Valencia, Spanish first leg of journey.
From the hand of the Chilean Navy first and then with the Spanish Armada, Ruta Quetzal BBVA held a course in astronomy over navigation night knowing firsthand the instruments used by the Spanish sailors on the findings, as John himself Fernández.
Then continue sailing through the Mediterranean, and after calling at Malaga, young people come to Tangier, where he studied the life of the great traveler Ibn Batutta, fourteenth-century Moroccan explorer.
The boat trip will end in Cadiz, where Ruta Quetzal BBVA remember the history of the Spanish Constitution, passed by Parliament on March 19, 1812.
Subsequently, the issue will move to Olmedo, Castilian Mudejar art capital and the birthplace of Geronimo de Alderete, before heading to La Rioja to the monasteries of Valvanera, Yuso and Suso in San Millán de la Cogolla, which will be analyzed importance of Castilian in the world.
The expedition will end in late July with the presentation of diplomas to the expedition at the closing ceremony of the academic program, led by the University Complutense of Madrid, to be framed by the Congress of Deputies, an institution that is looking at young generation of the bicentennial.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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