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Tuesday, November 24, the tourist consortium Cartagena Port of Cultures, held the opening session of the public tenders for the covering and protection of the archaeological remains of windlass and musealization del Castillo de la Concepción.

The first of the competitions have been presented 20 companies.

As you may recall this project, prepared by the architect Andrés Cánovas, allow the archaeological remains found on the south side of the windlass are visited.

This is an area of 2,500 square meters island shaped like a big city Cartagonova altoimperial of subsequent stages and ages II, III and IV, plus a large area of the Byzantine era.

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.

All this area will be under a translucent cover designed especially for day remains to be seen with natural light.

Cover of night by artificial light will illuminate.

The contract is EUR 1,360,985.

On the other hand, the second of the contest, the Musealisation the Castillo de la Concepcion, 10 companies have submitted.

His budget is around 345,000 euros.

Its purpose is to provide new exhibition content to the fortress whose offices have been expanded with the addition of several rooms of their medieval parapet they were buried.

These rooms were discovered in an excavation in 2003 and after excavation and rehabilitation, will be visited.

It is several interconnecting rooms dotted with loopholes or rifle, that project to the east by drilling some of the paintings from the walls of the fortress.

The first room, which gives access to these rooms, has an approximate area of 35 square meters, and from there, space is distributed in the first room of 120 meters, a second room of 47 meters, a step of about 41 meters and a third of 51 square meters.

With its introduction, the exhibition space of the Castillo de la Concepcion will more than double (200 to 500 square meters), whose musealization become Interpretation Centre of the History of Medieval city and Cartagena.

Few weeks is expected to be completed reports on the bids submitted for these two competitions and the Board of the Cartagena Port of Cultures, to award them.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena