Cartagena Monuments

Talking about monuments in Cartagena means referring to historical evidence on a daily basis, indeed a large number of things may be admired in the city and surrounding areas.

If we start at the Port with the main enclave in the square we can admire the landscaped esplanade of the Heroes de Cavite as it were disembarking erected as a tribute to all those who fought in the battles of CAvite and looking to our ringht the first prototype submarine designed by local engineer Isaac Peral a direct predecessor of the modern submarine.

Exactly opposite this is an inscription with a poem by Cervantes Besides its emblematic inscription the monument to Charles III signals the start of the Muralla del Mar, the fortification built on his orders in 1775 and which enclosed the whole of the original urban area.

Leaving the port behind us and just as we enter the city itself we reach the City hall finished in 1907 in a modernist style. The plaza del Ayuntamiento is the window that allows us to penetrate into the most peculiar of all Cartagena, the so called intimate Cartagena.

Up along the calle del Cañón we find the Cuesta de la Baronesa and from here the remains of the so called Catedral Vieja or the Santa Maria, built on top of part of the stalls of the Roman Theatre discovered in 1987 and still being excavated. The interesting archaeological overlapping in this area of the city spans a period of over 2000 years of history.

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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