Discovering Cartagena

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The Cartagena town hall has a commendable programme of support for the cleaning up and restoration of facades of old buildings. 

Each year numerous buildings are selected and their facades are improved at public expense. The programme is needed as many of the buildings in the older part of the city have several different owners and co-ordination, and getting agreement on costs, is often impossible. That explains why some glorious buildings look remarkably tatty. 

Not every building survives, however, as urban renewal and development takes its toll. 

One dramatic attempt to preserve at least a fragment of architectural history can be seen in the little street that runs of the Plaza Risueño, off Calle Caridad. 

Here a beautiful fragment of a façade from a 19^th century building, now vanished, stands in splendid isolation.  Although it looks rather ridiculous at the moment, no doubt it will be incorporated into the façade of whatever new building is erected on the site. 

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