Cartagena Casa Cervantes

The Calle Mayor is the principal artery of social life in the old quarter.

Modernism is present in every doorway in every window in every building alonf the pedestrian area that middle of the Calle Mayor the Casino an emblematic mid century institution evokes all the splendour and decadence of the golden years. A little further along is the Gran Bar full of more evocative memories.

The Casa Cervantes and Casa Llagostera with its peculiar tuled façade depinting allegoric images of Mercury and Minerva in full modernist swing.

Parallel to Calle Mayor calle del Aire where we find the church of Santa Maria de Gracia with its unfinished façade host to the images by Salzillo of the four local Saints and tronos commence their processions here. Still further on is the Gran Hotel a tall large modernist building with overelaborate external ornamentations full of floral motifs and luxurious balconies. We find the remains of a Roman colonnade beside the junction between the Puertas de Murcia the old entrance to the medieval city and calle Moreria Baja.

Things to do in Cartagena:

 

Casa Cervantes - Festivities - Gastronomy - Location - Monuments - Museums -

Passage of Casa Conesa - Roman Achropolis - The Roman Theatre

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