25 Sights in Cartagena, Spain (with Map and Images)
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The Arx Asdrubalis is as it was known in ancient times one of the five hills where the urban enclosure of Qart Hadasht was built. It was on this hill where, according to the historian Polybius, the palace of the Carthaginian general and founder of the city Hasdrubal the Beautiful was located, which has not yet been located. It currently corresponds to the hill of the windlass.
2. Torre Rubia
The Rubia Tower is a defense tower located in the Molinos Marfagones farmhouse, in the municipality of Cartagena, Murcia. Built around the sixteenth or seventeenth century, to protect the processes of repopulation of the rural environment of Cartagena. The building, with a quadrangular floor plan, has three heights and a crenellated crown and is therefore one of the best preserved examples of this type of fortification. It is listed as an Asset of Cultural Interest by the Second Additional Provision of Law 16/1985, of 25 June, on Spanish Historical Heritage.
3. Castillo de Despeñaperros
Despeñaperros Castle, also known as San José Castle, is a castle built in the 11th century in the historic center of Cartagena, Murcia Region in Spain. It was declared a cultural site on 7 August 1997. The walls are composed of masonry and generally flat. The interior of the fortification is divided in two perimeters, the lower with rooms for the occupants and a water reservoir, and an upper space occupied by the cannons, and which has lost gunships.
4. Torre Ciega
The Blind Tower is a Roman sepulchral monument of the first century BC. C. which is located on the outskirts of the historic center of Cartagena (Spain). The monument was part of a large necropolis that was located next to the main entrance road into the city. It is one of the three best preserved Roman funerary towers in the Iberian Peninsula, with the Torre de los Escipiones (Tarragona) and the Tower of Hercules (Villajoyosa).
5. Faro de Cabo de Palos
The lighthouse of Cabo de Palos is located in Cabo de Palos, which belongs to the Spanish municipality of Cartagena, in the Region of Murcia, on a rocky promontory, last foothills of the coastal mountain range of Cartagena, which at this point sinks under the sea to re-emerge in the Hormigas Islands. It was declared an asset of cultural interest on July 1, 2002.
6. Escuelas Graduadas
The Graduate School in Cartagena was the first educational institution in Spain to divide pupils by age and level and to provide properly hygienic classrooms for that purpose. The building where the course is located in Cartagena, Spain, especially Gisbert Street in the old city, has been declared a cultural attraction since May 21, 2004.
7. Torre de Santa Elena
St. Elena Tower, also known as Azohia Tower, is one of the towers projected in the 16th century in the coastal surveillance system, which is located in the fishing village of Azohia in the city of Cartagena, at one end of the dock bay. Jagged, dyed and rolling capes located in protected natural areas.
8. Subestación San Antón
The Hispania Electric Fluid Factory, popularly known as the Fábrica de la Luz, is an electricity factory built by the architect Francisco de Paula de Oliver Rolandi in 1900, in the Alameda de San Antón of the Spanish city of Cartagena. Since 1994 it has been listed as an Asset of Cultural Interest.
9. Real Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad
Our Lady of Charity's Royal Cathedral is a Catholic church with neoclassical style and metal structure, located in the Murcia region of Cartagena, Spain. Its interior is dominated by a dome, reminiscent of many spaces with the same artistic tendency, which are based on the pantheon of agripa.
10. Torre Llagostera
The Torre Llagostera, also known as Huerto de las Bolas in El Bohío is a building built inside a large garden in Cartagena, which brings together all the characteristics of a colonial mansion, from Africa or America. It is a hybrid, exotic and classic architecture in a dusty Mediterranean.
11. Batería de Roldán
The Battery of Roldán, also known as C-51, is a Spanish fortification of anti-aircraft artillery support located on Mount Roldán, within the municipality of Cartagena, and more specifically in the deputation of Canteras. It was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest on August 7, 1997.
12. Castillo de San Julián
The Castillo de San Julián, also known as Saint Julian's Fort, is a fort in Cartagena, Spain. It was built between the 18th and 19th centuries, incorporating a tower which had been built by the British in 1706. The fort remains intact today, but it is in a rather dilapidated state.
13. Batería de Las Cenizas
The Battery of the Ashes, also known as C-9, is a coastal artillery support fortification located on Mount Ashes, within the municipality of Cartagena and more specifically in the deputation of Rincón de San Ginés. Its access is on the road that connects Los Belones with Portman.
14. Batería de Castillitos
The castillitos Battery, also known as the c-1, is a coastal artillery fortification located at the Dyed Cape in the downtown area of Cartagena, and more specifically in the surrounding area. It was declared as a property of cultural significance on August 7, 1997.
15. Palacio Molina
The palace of Molina, also called house-palace of Molina or erroneously palace of the Widow of Molina, is a palace built in the eighteenth century in the old town of the Spanish city of Cartagena. It was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest on February 24, 1986.
16. Monument to the Heroes of Cavite and Santiago de Cuba
The Monument to the Heroes of Cavite and Santiago de Cuba is an instance of public art and war memorial in Cartagena, Spain. It commemorates the role of the naval squadrons commanded by Patricio Montojo and Pascual Cervera during the 1898 Spanish–American War.
Wikipedia: Monument to the Heroes of Cavite and Santiago de Cuba (EN)
17. Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática
The National Museum of Subaquatic Archaeology in Cartagena (Murcia), Spain is an underwater archaeology museum. It owns a large collection of pieces recovered from shipwrecks that begins in the Phoenician period, and arrives until the 19th century.
18. Antiguo Club de Regatas
The old Club de Regatas was the headquarters of the Real Club de Regatas de Cartagena. It was built by architect Mario Spottorno in 1912, in the port of the Spanish city of Cartagena. Since 1988 it has been listed as an Asset of Cultural Interest.
19. Canteras Romanas
The Roman quarries of Cartagena are an archaeological site in which the remains of a sandstone exploitation of the time of Roman Hispania are shown. They are located in the deputation of Canteras, about 4 km west of the Spanish city of Cartagena.
20. Molino Viejo de Zabala
The old zabala Mill, sometimes referred to simply as the zabala Mill, is a flour windmill located near the canteras-la azohia (rm-e22) road, located in the Cartagena metropolitan area and administratively integrated into the surrounding area.
21. Castillo de la Concepción
The Conception Castle, or asdr ú bal Castle, is a medieval building built in the twelfth or fourteenth centuries and situated on the hill of the same name overlooking Cartagena and its harbor. The castle appears on the badge of the city.
22. Castillo de los Moros
The Castle of the Moors is a castle built in the eighteenth century in what is now the neighborhood of Santa Lucia, within the Spanish city of Cartagena. It was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest on August 7, 1997.
23. Palacio Consistorial de Cartagena
The Palace Hall of Cartagena, also known as Cartagena City Hall, is one of the main modernist buildings of the city of Cartagena built between 1900 and 1907, the work of the Valladolid architect Tomás Rico Valarino.
24. Palacio de Casa Tilly
Casino Cartagena is a private institution founded in the first half of the 19th century in the city of Cartagena (Murcia, Spain). Just like the casinos and cultural circles that flourished in those years.
25. Villa Romana del Paturro
The Roman villa of Paturro is an archaeological site of a large Roman villa located in the Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Unión, in the vicinity of the town of Portmán in the Region of Murcia (Spain).
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