Portal de Cartagena
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The largest of Sorrows, and Cuesta Blanca Miranda on Thursday visited the neighborhood of the Roman Forum.
The Municipal Institute of Social Services has organized the visit will begin at 10 am.
The winch occupies 26,000 square meters in the heart of a city center with some 2,240 years of history, and its excavation provides a wealth of archaeological information ranging from the founding of the Punic city to the years 228-229 BC to the century XX.
Retirees will visit the citadel or acropolis of the ancient city, set foot on the land on which presumably was the Palace of Hasdrubal Hadast Qart founder, remains of the Punic sanctuary dedicated to Atargatis, Syrian-born divinity, which is partially destroyed by the construction the walls of the Dean of the Cathedral in the sixteenth.
They may also observe the Punic Wall, in the last quarter of the third century BC had to defend the city and the palace of the northern flank of the hill.
This wall, which was restored in Byzantine period (sixth-seventh centuries AD), should be in semiruínas in the sixteenth century, when the Emperor Charles V ordered the construction of a new wall, which was executed by Sebastian Clavijo, Dean of the Cathedral.
It is a stretch of nearly 100 m long, with two bastions and remains of one of the strongholds of the new wall built in the sixteenth century by order of Philip II.
It is, in the first walls of Cartagena of the Renaissance.
During the visit, will also see the two largest flour mills that remain and to be the hill its current place name.
They date from the seventeenth century and one of them was reused in the eighteenth century as a chapel dedicated to San Cristobal.
Both are declared Assets of Cultural Interest.
Also on the hill are the remains of the houses that once resided in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, some of them, along with remnants of the Alley Cats are visible so that visitors are made aware of that area was very crowded.
They are also exposed to two shelters access to the Civil War.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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