Discovering Cartagena

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Next to the pavement café near to the Barclay’s Bank building in Puerta de Murcia, in the centre of Cartagena, there is a line of ancient columns.

These are relics of the times of the Carthaginians and Romans when trading ships used to tie up at the head of the peninsula that formed the city.  Here there were jetties, warehouses, stores and shops and the streets were busy with the shouts and cries of dockers, sailors, dealers, suppliers and passer-by. 

There columns were probably part of some form of colonnaded arcade and a tile picture on the wall behind them gives an interesting idea of how things may have looked some 2,000 years ago. 

Beside the tables at the café there is a square picked out in the pavement.  There are more ancient remains below this square and they used to be covered with tough glass so that they could be viewed.   But so many people slipped and fell as they walked across the glass that it has been removed and the ruins have been buried again. 

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