Museums
Cartagena
The museum houses one of the most complete archaeological exhibits in the region. The site was built in 1982 around a late-Roman necropolis, which is probably the structure that gives more character to the museum. The route of the permanent exhibition starts in Prehistory and passing through the Iberian Culture finds in the period of Romanization the bulk of the exhibition where the collection of funeral epigraphy, one of the best in Spain, deserves a special mention. Equally important are the Roman mining sections, with a varied typology of products, tools, and utensils of that period , or that of ceramic productions, mainly crockery , which testify to the intense commercial traffic that the port maintained from the second century B. C. onwards Enjoy a Virtual Visit to the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Cartagena. Click here
Museums
Lorca
Opened on May 10, 2002, the museum is very close to the parish church of San Cristóbal, home of the Archconfraternity. The museum has a library, offices, meeting room and embroidery workshops. In him we can contemplate banners and flags and the robes of the Tercio de Nazarenos of the Expiration.
Museums
Lorca
Opened on May 10, 2002, the museum is very close to the parish church of San Cristóbal, home of the Archconfraternity. The museum has a library, offices, meeting room and embroidery workshops. In him we can contemplate banners and flags and the robes of the Tercio de Nazarenos of the Expiration.
Lugares de interés
Los Alcázares
El mural fué pintado en el Festival de Arte Urbano del Mar Menor en 2016
Lugares de interés
Los Alcázares
El mural de Piratroska fue pintado en el Festival de Arte Urbano 2016
Monuments
Cartagena
This wall in Cartagena belongs, in a military sense, to the Escuela Española de Fortificaciones Abalaurtadas (Spanish School of Bastioned Fortifications). Its layout covers 4,970 meters, 1,600 of which have completely disappeared or appear partially buried in some areas. The wall surrounds the whole city and the arsenal. The wall, whose construction was ordered by Charles III, has been the main defensive system of the city, which in land was completed with a castle and in the sea with coastal forts or batteries. Its layout is divided into six fronts: Frente Sur or Muralla del Mar (South Front or Sea Wall), Frente Este or Puertas de San José (East Front or San José¿s Doors), Frente Norte or Almarjal (North Front or Almarjal), Frente de las Puertas de Madrid (Front of Madrid¿s Doors), Frente Oeste or de Benipila (West Front or of Benipila) and Frente de Galeras (Front of Galleys).
Lugares de interés
Cartagena
The promenade runs along the seafront of the 18th century bastioned wall, the only remaining section of the great defensive work ordered to be built by Charles III. Its bastions, joined by straight stretches of wall, allowed for defence between them. The construction of these walls and the military buildings of the period gave rise to new roads, such as the Calle Real or the Muralla del Mar, which favoured accessibility between the different military establishments. Among these buildings is the Midshipmen's School, designed in 1788 by Juan de Villanueva - who also designed the Prado Museum - as a training centre for naval officers. The building presides over the seafront with its façade of Doric columns and the top of a hexagonal tower for astronomy practice. It is currently the Navy's General Services Centre. The mining boom at the end of the 19th century allowed a great urban reform to be undertaken, which included the creation of the new port of Cartagena, on land reclaimed from the sea, which until then had been along the front of the city walls. In 1888 this land was ceded to the municipality, thus giving birth to the great balcony of Cartagena overlooking the sea, which became the preferred place of residence for the most privileged classes. The projects for the promenade date from 1914 and are linked to the works on the new Paseo de Alfonso XII, which will turn the area into a promenade with English-style gardens and which will be completed with a monumental staircase in front of the old Midshipmen's School, which connects the Wall with the Paseo de Alfonso XII. In the 1920s, under the mandate of Mayor Torres, as part of his projects for the remodelling and ornamentation of the city, the Monument to Columbus was placed in the gardens of the Muralla del Mar, the work of Juan San Martín Serra, made of Carrara marble and placed on a pedestal designed by Lorenzo Ros. The statue represents the sailor in his most widespread iconography: with his arm outstretched pointing to the horizon. The last remodelling was carried out in the 1990s, preserving the impressive Australian fig trees (ficus macrophila), which share space with the Indian laurels (ficus microcarpa) that carpet the ground with their small fruits. The ficus located at the end of the wall overlooking the Plaza de los Héroes de Cavite, "El Gobernador" (The Governor), because it is within the enclosure of the Military Government of the Army, has a name of its own by right of antiquity. The height and stylised trunks of its Mexican fan palm (Washingtonia robusta) and Californian fan palm (Washingtonia filifera) are also striking. In the area more protected from the sun by a grove of pine trees is the children's play area. The walk along the Muralla del Mar also allows you to enjoy the magnificent views of the port of Cartagena, which has recovered its value as a space for urban use and leisure, with important elements such as the National Museum of Underwater Archaeology ARQVA and the Auditorium and Congress Centre "El Batel".
Monuments
Molina de Segura
La muralla y la alcazaba del barrio del castillo de Molina de Segura, constituyen los restos monumentales del antiguo enclave medieval del hisn Mulina, nombre con el que se conocía en época medieval a Molina de Segura. Tenía unos 8 metros de altura y unos 2 metros de anchura. Cada 20 metros existía una torre defensiva y por delante un foso de unos 7 metros de anchura por 3 de profundidad.Todo el recinto contaba con al menos 2 puertas. El tramo más importante que se conserva de la cerca medieval, hoy convertido en un moderno Museo, el MUDEM, es el aparecido en el antiguo emplazamiento de la fábrica de Maximino Moreno. En este tramo tenemos un lienzo de muralla de 125 m. que cuenta con 6 torres. 4 de ellas son cuadrangulares, otra forma parte de la estructura de la puerta y una última es de características singulares. Se trata de una torre sin paralelos de forma poligonal con 9 lados. Se encuentra en la confluencia entre el foso, el final de la acequia y el propio río Segura.
Monuments
Lorca
En el S. XII los almohades decidieron reforzar aún más la madina de Lurqa ante la inminente llegada de las tropas cristianas. De esta época es el lienzo de muralla medival que estaba jalonada de torres, puertas y cortinas que hay en la Alberca.
