Portal de Cartagena
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Just a few days left to begin Holy Week in Cartagena, with the celebration of Good Friday, and archaeologists and restorers are working on the finishing touches to open the public's Day Patron Quarter of the Roman Forum, archaeological site located on the southern slope of Cerro El windlass.
Among the remains, protected by a cover and crossed by a footbridge to facilitate visits to the archaeological park, there are Roman roads and buildings, among which are the baths, a colonnaded square and a two-storey building with murals included.
Excavations on the hill began in 2008 and, once finalized, will join the garden was opened to the public last November, which will form the largest urban archaeological park in Spain, with an area of 26,000 square meters.
A VIEWPOINT OF THE CITY
The top of the windlass is a strategic point, a lookout point from which you can check out virtually the entire city from other hills defensive, as the Watchtower or Roland, to the port, passing through the area of the extension.
Also, at that point, the highest in the hill, is one of the great finds discovered during the excavations, indigenous households.
Completing the tour, behind the wall of Charles I, are the oldest remains found in the excavations, a succession of rooms interspersed with tanks that were used for water collection and dating of the first half of the second century BC, time that coincides with the conquest of the city by Scipio.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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