Cartagena
The city of Cartagena offers the visitor a vast cultural legacy acquired
over more than 3,000 years. The city offers different routes of
interest. There are archaeological, baroque or Art Nouveau routes,
as well as routes for visiting the museums or castles surrounding
the city, and routes as genuine as the one showing the art and
devotion of our Easter festivities or the tradition of our handicrafts.
Gastronomical routes, the wine route, tours showing the best of
the rediscovered mediterranean diet and the oenological tradition
of the region. And if the visitor wishes to go further, there
are visits to the city of Murcia or Lorca, or tours of the Mar
Menor, its villages and its beaches.
Cartagena is encircled by mountains and is a principal naval base of Spain.
Its fortifications include forts and other military and naval
installations. The city contains the remains of old walls, a castle
probably constructed in Carthaginian times, and a church that
was formerly a 13th-century cathedral. Cartagena is on a site
selected, after 228 BC, by the Carthaginian general Hasdrubal.
When captured by the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus
in 209 BC, the city was a flourishing port exporting gold and
silver mined in the surrounding region. Sacked by the Goths in
AD425, Cartagena was restored and improved by the Moors during
their occupation of Spain. A possession of the kings of Aragón
from 1269, it was later included in the kingdom of Spain. It served
as a naval base for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.
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