Cathedral of Cartagena

The arcades in the old cathedral keep two white marble columns among their stone secrets, la pretoriana and la de los Mártires, which in their time have withstood the weight of the amphiteathre in the Roman Theatre (discovered in 1987 and still being excavated), as well as a mosaic in opus signinum Augustus.

A little further down, in the clle de la Moreria Baja, we find the remains of yet another great public building, of which we still keep a colonnade with eight plinths of tuscan columns, made of black limestone. These were found when an old building was demolished in 1957. A large number of coins, amphorae, and other interesting objects were also found nearby, and may now be seen in the Archaeological Museum.

On the outskirts of the city, at Torre Ciega, just over jalf a mile from the urban area along the road to San Javier, is an area covering the ancient Via Augusta. A study stone cube appears, almost 4 metres in demension, on top of which was a funeral monument from the first century of our era. On the basis of this monument in Torre Ciega, an inscription which says To Titus Didius son of Publius of the Cornelian tribe.