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A reproduction of the red flag, the July 12, 1873 was raised during the Canton Uprising and its proclamation by the Revolutionary Junta Municipal Public Salvation Cartagena, waving yesterday afternoon masts respect of the Town Hall, used usually to highlight special events such as the processions of Holy Week, the Festival of Carthaginians and Romans and also from this year, the LGBT Pride Day.

The mayor, Jose Lopez, was commissioned to raise the banner, to the sound of a distinctive singing of Cartagena played by the singer David Contreras "The Cardueli" accompanied on guitar by Borja Baron.

Previously Lopez had addressed the nearly 300 people who had gathered in the Town Hall Square to explain it was the first of a series of commemorative events in which milestones occurred is relive in Cartagena, with the aim of publicizing Cartagena and visitors to those moments of the long history of the city, because of its special importance, notably influenced his future.

Cartagena in history, which is as it is called to this initiative, aims, according to the mayor, put the focus on facts, moments that marked a turning point in the life of our ancestors, not always positively, for a better understanding of the reality that we live, and a better understanding of the reasons that led them to decisions which changed the course of our history.

Lopez also said that by chronological coincidence, was begun by the uprising of the canton and the proclamation of the Revolutionary Junta of National Salvation Municipal de Cartagena, which occurred on July 12, 1873: an event of deep historical significance, to the point be picked up by Benito Perez Galdos in the national episode of Carthage to Sagunto.

Lopez also expressed the obligation of governments, and especially the mayor to put all possible means to Cartagena stones keep talking, so many others that are still hidden, his voice muffled by tons of earth, can see the light and tell your story, because a people is what was and what you want to be.

The people of Cartagena was glorious, brave, proud and anyone forget, and because we want to remain so in the future, we must know our past, good and bad, life is forged coup failures and triumphs , as important as the other, he added.

The Cartagena historian, Luis Miguel Perez Adam was commissioned to do the historical account of the event, noting its importance for the nation's future, since it was not a parochial event but here was an unusual national importance and here resisted more than elsewhere.

The last intervention was the Councillor for Culture, Education and Equality, David Martinez, who closed the event with the words contained in an explanatory sign posted in the cantonal flag.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena