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The archaeological remains of the windlass can be visited at the end of next year (27/07/2009)

Pilar Barreiro Mayor and the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, this morning visited the excavations of the hill the Pinwheel, whose archaeological remains will be covered by a project by Andrés Cánovas that will allow these remains are visited at a time to continue with the excavation work.

Specifically, the project will affect about covering 2,500 square meters of the southern slope of Cerro del Pinwheel, which have been excavated for a year and a half.

As explained José Miguel Noguera, director of excavations, the remains found indicate that urbanization is a great island city of Cartagonova altoimperial and subsequent stages in the centuries II, III and IV, plus a great neighborhood of time Byzantine.

In this large island has documented two large buildings, public baths, a large arena, and another building that is built around a large atrium with four large classrooms, in what could be a temple or a schola.

This large block is bounded on the east by a thistle (road that crosses the city from north to south) and that lead directly to one of the entrances to the Roman Theatre, while on the south and the north is bounded by two ancient roman decumans, differentiated together by three meters high and indicate that the city was terraced.

All of these areas, which can be seen with the naked eye, will be under cover and can be viewed by the public in the second half of next year.

As indicated by the Minister, the project will be bid in September and has a lead time of eight months.

This campaign ends on Friday, and the next, starting in early 2010, will advance to the east of the site, to the new health center.

In total, the site consists of 25,000 square meters, which will make the Archaeological Park of Cerro del Pinwheel in the largest in the Peninsula, just pointed out how the Mayor and the Minister during the visit to the excavations.

TOURISM AND CULTURE

Precisely the conjunction between tourism and culture have talked the mayor and the director Cruz during a luncheon with the Circle of Entrepreneurs in the Region of Murcia.

At this meeting, the mayor has indicated that cultural tourism has become one of the most important economic sites of the city.

For example, Puerto de Culturas has registered 165,000 visitors so far this year (60,000 more than last year at this same time) as well as visitors to the Roman Theatre, the Archaeological Park windlass future or next Auditorium and Center Cartagena Congress, which will attract to the city to the most important international congresses and fairs.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

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