35 Sights in Cartagena, Spain (with Map and Images)
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Sightseeing Tours in CartagenaActivities in Cartagena1. Torre Rubia
Torre Rubia is a defense tower located in the farmhouse Molinos Marfagones, in the municipality of Cartagena, Murcia. Built around the sixteenth or seventeenth century, to protect the repopulation processes of the rural environment of Cartagena. The building, with its 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.
2. El Zulo
The zulo is a bronze sculpture by Víctor Ochoa that has been on display since 2009 on the esplanade of the port of the Spanish city of Cartagena, in homage to the victims of terrorism. The work, in which the art historian Ana María Preckler (2003) appreciated a "Michelangelo-esque workmanship", is 5 meters high and weighs 2.5 tons, and represents a naked man seated in an attitude of reflection, with his head down and hugging his legs, almost in a fetal position.
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 from the 1st century BC. It 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 to the city. It is one of the three best-preserved Roman funerary towers in the Iberian Peninsula, with the Tower of the Scipios (Tarragona) and the Tower of Hercules (Villajoyosa).
5. Fuerte de Navidad
The Christmas Fort is located to the right of the port of Cartagena, to the west. It protected the entrance by crossing its fires with the batteries of Santa Ana and Trincabotijas, built in neoclassical style with casemates for the installation of eight artillery pieces on the ground floor and another eight barbette pieces on the upper floor. It is currently used by Cartagena Puerto de Culturas.
6. Torre de Santa Elena
The Torre de Santa Elena, also known as Torre de la Azohia, is one of the towers projected in the 16th century within the coastal surveillance system, which stands in the town of Fishermen of the Azohía, belonging to the municipality of Cartagena, located at one end of the Gulf of Mazarrón. It is located within the protected natural space of the Sierra de la Muela, Cabo Tiñoso and Roldán.
7. Escuelas Graduadas
The Graduate Schools of Cartagena were the first educational centers in Spain to divide students by age and level, in addition to having suitably sanitized classrooms for this purpose. The building where the classes were taught is located in the Spanish city of Cartagena, specifically on Gisbert Street in the old town, and has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest since May 21, 2004.
8. Molinete
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 Molinete hill.
9. Barrio del foro Romano
The archaeological site of the Roman Forum Quarter is made up of a set of Roman buildings discovered in Cartagena, built around one of the main roads of the city at that time: the Decumanus. From this decumanus there was access to a large thermal complex and a large building with an atrium that has been identified as the headquarters of a collegium.
10. Cueva Victoria
Victoria Cave is a paleontological site located in the municipality of Cartagena (Spain). It is located on the southern slope of the Cabezo de San Ginés, within a limestone massif close to the Mar Menor and the eastern foothills of the Cartagena-La Unión mining mountain range. It was excavated by the Catalan paleontologist Josep Gibert i Clols.
11. Faro de Cabo de Palos
The Lighthouse of Cabo de Palos is located at Cabo de Palos, which belongs to the Spanish municipality of Cartagena, in the Region of Murcia, on a rocky promontory, the latest foothills of the Cartagena coastal mountain range, which at this point sinks under the sea to re -arise in the ants. He was declared a cultural interest on July 1, 2002.
12. Casa Pedreño
The Pedreño Palace, also known as Casa Pedreño, is an eclectic building built in the Spanish city of Cartagena – Region of Murcia – by the architect Carlos Mancha in 1875. It is located at the confluence of Sagasta, Carmen and Santa Florentina streets, in the Puerta de Murcia and with the statue of El Icue in front of it.
13. Catedral de Santa María
The Cathedral of Cartagena in Spain, or the Cathedral of Santa María la Vieja, was a cathedral of the Diocese of Cartagena, located on the hill of La Concepción in the old town of Cartagena. It has been in ruins since 1939, when it was destroyed when Cartagena was shelled in the Spanish Civil War by Nationalist forces.
14. Batería de Las Cenizas
The Battery of the Ashes, also known as C-9, is a coastal artillery support fortification located on the Monte de las Cenizas, within the municipality of Cartagena and more specifically in the provincial council of Rincón de San Ginés. Its access is on the road that connects Los Belones with Portmán.
15. Real Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad
The Royal Basilica of Our Lady of Charity is a neoclassical Catholic temple with a metal structure located in the Spanish city of Cartagena, in the Region of Murcia. Its interior, dominated by the dome, is reminiscent of many spaces of the same artistic tendency, based in turn on Agrippa's Pantheon.
16. Subestación San Antón
The Hispania Electric Fluid Factory, popularly known as the Light Factory, is an electricity factory built by the architect Francisco de Paula de Oliver Rolandi in 1900, in the Alameda de San Antón in the Spanish city of Cartagena. Since 1994 it has been listed as an Asset of Cultural Interest.
17. Torre Llagostera
The Tower Llagostera, also known by Gaerto de las Bolas in El Bohio, is a building built inside a large garden in Cartagena, which brings together all the characteristics of a colonial mansion, in Africa or America. It is a hybrid, exotic and classical architecture in a dusty Mediterranean.
18. Batería de Roldán
The Roldán Battery, also known as C-51, is a Spanish anti-aircraft artillery support fortification located on Mount Roldán, within the municipality of Cartagena, and more specifically in the Provincial Council of Canteras. It was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest on August 7, 1997.
19. Casa Maestre
The Master House is a residential property of Modernist style of Cartagena. It was built in the 1900s under project of the architects Marceliano Coquillat and Víctor Beltrí, and is located in the Plaza de San Francisco. Since 2021 he is classified as a good of cultural interest (BIC).
20. 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.
21. Batería de Castillitos
The Castillitos Battery, also known as C-1, is a coastal artillery support fortification located at Cape Tiñoso, within the municipality of Cartagena and more specifically in the provincial council of Perín. It was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest on August 7, 1997.
22. Palacio Molina
The palace of Molina, also called the palace of Molina or erroneously the 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.
23. Auditorio y Palacio de Congresos El Batel
The El Batel Auditorium and Conference Centre is a large cultural infrastructure located in the port of the Spanish city of Cartagena, next to the National Museum of Underwater Archaeology (ARQUA), whose works began in 2004 and opened its doors at the end of 2011.
24. 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)
25. Antiguo Club de Regatas
The old Regatta Club was the headquarters of the Real Club de Regatas de Cartagena. It was built by the 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.
26. 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.
Wikipedia: National Museum of Subaquatic Archaeology (EN), Website
27. Castillo de la Concepción
The castle of La Concepción or Asdrúbal is a medieval construction of the thirteenth or fourteenth century located on the hill of the same name that rises over Cartagena and its port. This castle is the one that is represented in the city shield.
28. Molino Viejo de Zabala
The old mill of Zabala, sometimes known simply as the Zabala mill, is a flour windmill located near the Canteras-La Azohía road (RM-E22), within the municipality of Cartagena, and administratively integrated into the Provincial Council of Perín.
29. Canteras Romanas
The Roman quarries of Cartagena are an archaeological site that shows the remains of a sandstone quarry from the time of Roman Hispania. They are located in the provincial council of Canteras, about 4 km west of the Spanish city of Cartagena.
30. Museo del Teatro Romano
The Museum of the Roman Theatre of Cartagena is a work by architect Rafael Moneo, inaugurated on July 11, 2008, and is dedicated to the project of excavation, restoration and valuation of the Roman theatre of Cartagena in Cartagena, Spain.
Wikipedia: Museo del Teatro Romano de Cartagena (ES), Website
31. Palacio de Casa Tilly
The Casino de Cartagena is a private institution established in the first half of the nineteenth century in the city of Cartagena (Murcia), Spain. Similar to the casinos and cultural circles that proliferated in those years.
32. Casa Dorda
Casa Dorda is a modernist building built in 1908. It is located between Calle del Carmen and Jabonerías, in the historic centre of the city of Cartagena (Murcia). It was built by the Catalan architect Víctor Beltrí.
33. Palacio Consistorial de Cartagena
The Cartagena City Hall, also known as Cartagena City Hall, is one of the main modernist buildings in the city of Cartagena built between 1900 and 1907, the work of the Valladolid architect Tomás Rico Valarino.
34. Castillo de los Moros
The Moorish Castle is a castle built in the 18th century in what is now the Santa Lucia neighborhood, within the Spanish city of Cartagena. It was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest on August 7, 1997.
35. 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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