Byzantine and Visigoth Murcia Art Route
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Very few remains, if any at all, have been preserved to this day of
the capital that those from Byzantium erected over the ruins of Roman
Cartago Nova.
In the year 555, Byzantine troops commanded by emperor Mauritius landed
on Cartagena Bay, called in aid of Prince Athanagildus. They came and
stayed, since Cartagena vecame at that time capital of a new Byzantine
province in the peninsular East. The remains of a wall found in 1983
in the calle de la Soledad were at first thought to belong to this period.
The fortification was dated between 589 and 590 in the first instance,
and this gave way to the agreement that these were an excellent example
of Byzantine traces.
The exhibition hall built on this wall was even named after the discovery,
Byzantine Wall Hall, New samples and further analyses confirmed that
the parapet, 2 metres wide and 14 metres long, with a semicircular tower,
of 12 metres in diameter, was, in fact, of Roman origin, though the
Byzantines has used it as an element within their own buildings.
Interesting remains from the dawn of Christianity may be visited at
the Martiryum in La Alberca, dated around the IV century a.D. It is
thought to be the oldest of its kind in the Western world. Also from
this time are the remains of a paleachristian basilica found in Algezares,
and above all the ruins of the Roman Visigoth city of Begastri, in Cabezo
Roenas, near Cehegin.
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