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The Roman Theatre of Cartagena wide opening to provide the opportunity to visit the monument to those travelers visiting the city on the bridge of San Jose.
So, will open on Monday 18 generally closed from 10.00 to 18.00, and the feast of St. Joseph, March 19, from 10.00 to 14.00 hours.
The museum complex has become a major cultural landmark and tourist city, both in number of visitors and the various awards at national and European level.
The visit begins with the Museum, whose entrance is located in the Town Hall Square, opposite the Palace Hall, continues through its halls and leads the visitor directly to the interior of the monument.
Therefore, the recovery project undertaken by architect Rafael Moneo, is a journey through time and a path from sea to high altitudes, ending the visit with the unexpected appearance of imposing grandstand Theatre.
The museum display has been keen to raise awareness of the historical process which meant hiding the Roman theater until its discovery.
After passing the doors of the museum, visitors will encounter the corridor of history.
It explains the evolution of the solar urban drama from century to century BC, both illustrated with a selection of artifacts recovered from the excavation as with graphic and audiovisual.
The corridor leads directly to a large room twenty feet high, which serves special frame for displaying the elements making up the monumental architecture of the theater of Cartagena.
Inside the museum, the height of the room allowed recreate the first order of the scenic facade with original features.
The Corinthian capitals carved in Carrara marble reproduce the models developed in the official architecture of the city, in the years preceding the change was.
The bases made of the same material as the capitals are a composite or double attic and travertine columns are pink, from the quarries of the Cerro de la Almagra (Mula) about seventy kilometers from Cartagena.
Besides the stone elements of the scenic facade, made by first-class artisans, are exposed on the capitals of bases porticus scaenam post made here local sandstone.
The building's architecture and quality materials make it a magnificent example of the public and monumental edilicia time of Augustus, whose image adorned with evening gown and head over the living room as a benefactor of the city.
Through an escalator leads to the second room, the larger museum.
This room allows visitors penetrates in the knowledge of the functions of theater in antiquity, as well as its recreational function the theater building was the perfect architectural framework for political and religious propaganda of the emperor.
In the building, the message inscribed in stone, and the monument merge to fulfill this mission, as exemplified by the lintels commemorative crowning the entrance doors, exposed now in this great hall.
So we know that the theater was dedicated to the two young princes, Gaius and Lucius Caesar, grandsons of Augustus and his heirs virtual, who also had to participate in financing the building and probably the choice of ornamental program.
A decorative program loaded with ideological messages most notably the introduction of the cults to the traditional deities of the Roman State through three altars where the symbols represent the Capitoline Triad, carved marble pieces of great excellence Luni, presiding the central part of the room.
Ward 2 binds to the broker under the church Santa María la Vieja, where a home is preserved Roman mosaic amortized by the construction of the theater, the walls and terracing of the early church and other thirteenth century medieval remains.
This corridor also has a key role to the architect, to prepare the visitor for contemplation to be the end of their journey: a complete view of the theater, as magnificent as unexpected.
In addition, visitors who come to enjoy the Museum temporary exhibition González Beltrán.
Sculptures.
The exhibition offers a retrospective of the work of one of the most important sculptors of the plastic in recent decades, and takes us into the artist's creative process in recent years.
Allows an approach through the most characteristic types and figures of the sculptor, connected by links subtle but full of meaning, as the powerful symbolism of myth, the human propensity to face impossible challenges, the fragile balance that links to expensive and Jesters or the multiple meanings that are associated with the feminine domains and especially motherhood.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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