CARTAGENA Cartagena is a Spanish city and a major naval station located in the Region of Murcia, by the Mediterranean coast, south-eastern Spain. It is a population of 218,210 inhabitants being the Region’s second largest municipality. Cartagena has been inhabited for over two millennia, being founded around 227 BC by the Carthaginian Hasdrubal as Qart Hadasht. The city lived its heyday during the Roman Empire, when it was known as Carthago Nova (the New Carthage) and Carthago Spartaria, capital of the province of Carthaginensis. Much of the historical weight of Cartagena in the past goes to its coveted defensive port, one of the most important in the western Mediterranean. Cartagena has been the capital of the Spanish Navy's Maritime Department of the Mediterranean since the 18th century.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SIGHTS ROMAN THEATRE ARQUA AMPHITHEATRE

ROMAN THEATRE MUSEUM The building work of the roman construction dates back to the 1 century B.C. Part of a unique collection of buildings which include the Museum are remains of the old Cathedral Santa María de Gracia.

ARQUA National Museum of Underwater Archaeology The chronological arc of the objects found in underwater archaeological excavations spans over 2500 years from the 7 century B.C. to the 19 century A.D.

AMPHITHEATRE Built in the middle of the 1 Century A.C. Only some of the surrounding walls are still visible.

BARROQUE AND NEOCLASSICAL CAMPUS MURALLA DEL MAR CARLOS III RAMPART NAVAL MUSEUM

CAMPUS MURALLA DEL MAR The former Naval Hospital was one of the first works carrier out after the transformation of the city into the main Spanish naval base in the Mediterranean. Next to the Hospital is the Autopsy theatre, a centrally-planned edifice devoted to the training of surgeons

It was built at the order of Carlos III. CARLOS III RAMPART A fundamental piece in the defensive plan of the Arsenal and the military head-quarters of Cartagena. It was built at the order of Carlos III.

NAVAL MUSEUM The old headquarter for prisoners and Moors built in the 18 century, was the headquarter of Seamanship Instruction and nowadays the place where the University and the Naval Museum coexist. Among the museum’s subject areas include those dedicated to Isaac Peral and submarines. The original submarine was invented by Isaac Peral, born in Cartagena. The craft, designed in 1884 and built in Cádiz was launched in 1888 and now is exposed in the former boiler shop of the Arsenal.

MODERNIST NAVIDAD FORT CARIDAD CHURCH CITY HALL GRAN HOTEL

NAVIDAD FORT Coastal artillery constructed in the decade of 1860 for the defence of the port, the city and especially against the attack of an enemy fleet.

CARIDAD CHURCH The temple was the church of the old Charity Hospital and was renovated in the 19 century. The sculpture of the patron saint of the city, and Neapolitan Pietà, is venerated since 1723

CITY HALL Built in the form of a triangle with different façades. The monumental eclecticism of the building house interiors of a clearly modernist flavour.

GRAN HOTEL A building with modernist influences from Vienna and France. Its two façades converge into a circular gallery capped a spectacular dome. The use of colours varies from floor to floor

COMTEMPORARY SPANISH CIVIL WAR SHELTER MUSEUM AUDITORIUM AND CONGRESS CENTER EL BATEL

SPANISH CIVIL WAR SHELTER MUSEUM Galleries excavated out of La Concepción hill to serve as air-raid shelters. The construction was to be completed at the end of the Spanish Civil War

AUDITORIUM AND CONGRESS CENTER EL BATEL Next to the coastal shelf as one of the more piece in the port landscape of commercial containers, links the fisher man area of Santa Lucía to the city centre.