Cartagena’s city council How to get there:

By road: Three dual-carriageways link the city with the rest of Spain: Murcia’s, Alicante’s and Vera’s ones drive you to the cities of the same name and to, virtually, any European or Spanish city. In order to look for the best route, visit http://www.viamichelin.com .

By plane: Murcia (San Javier) Airport is about 20 minutes from Cartagena. Alicante (El Altet) Airport will take a bit longer, over 50 minutes. Find out timetables at http://www.aena.es .

By coach: You can get a bus to Cartagena from nearly every Spanish capital. http;//www.alsa.es

By train: RENFE is located near the city centre. Trains arrive from a number of Spanish and European towns. http://www.renfe.es .

Where to stay: A large high quality hotel selection at the disposal of tourists or those visitors here on business matters is findable in Cartagena and its outskirts. http://www.ayto-cartagena.es/dinamicas/hotelciudad.asp Climatology: Catagena enjoys an enviable Mediterranean climate, with smooth winters (11ºC of average in winter) and warm summers (with more than 40ºC). Little precipitations per year, with more than 150 with a totally clear sky.

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The City of Cartagena is the second biggest city in the Comunity of Murcia, as well as a million other things. For many centuries a meeting point, it offers a great deal of cultural, leisure and entertainment activities to please thousands of people who visit it every year. Cartagena, with its cosmopolitan air and its growing amount of tourists who visit it the whole year round, is still the open city that always was, has a cosmopolitan air and, with the arriving of the University, is recovering its well known night life and vitality. Cartagena is a must if you want to know the Spanish and Mediterranean culture.

Walking tour:

At the Port, with the main enclave in the square, we can admire the landscaped esplanade of the disembarkation of Heroes of Cavite. This monument was erected as a tribute to all those who fought in the battles of Cavite and Santiago de Cuba. Furtheron, the first prototype submarine, designed by the local engineer Isaac Peral, a direct predecessor of the modern submarine, and the forerunner of our modern models

Heroes of Cavite Isaac Peral Submarine

In front of Heroes de Cavite Square lays the superb modernist building of the Cartagena City Hall short ago restored. Walking right hand allows to contemplate the “Carlos III Wall”, also known as “Sea Wall” named after the sea that can be seen all along opposite this monument.

The Sea Wall and the Politechnical University

At the other end of the Sea Wall, getting on the

panoramic elevator, there is an excellent oportunity to get astonished by the outstanding views of the harbour and the city. A few steps further, the moorish Conception Castle, also called the “Duck’s Castle” because of the ducks living there long time ago , can be visited

Conception Castle Just beside the Castle, having a little stroll, a

jewell: the Roman Theater and the Old Cathedral. The theatre was discovered, quite by chance, in 1987, and is still being excavated. The commemorative inscriptions indicate that it was built in the late first century B.C., the period of maximum urban development in the Roman colony.

Roman Theater Old Cathedral These monuments are just a drop of water into the ocean. Depending on your free time there are a lot of wonderful places to visit: Punic Wall Fortune House Augusteum Decumano

Molinete’s Hill. Roman Colonnade. Byzantine Wall Blind Tower

For further information visit our Tourist Information Office at:

Puertas de San Jose-Pz.Basterreche, s/n

30203 Cartagena, Murcia Email: cpdatos@ayto-cartagena.es

Tel: + 34 968 506 483 Fax: + 34 968 526 912

Golf Resort: For those who dream of playing golf on beautiful, top quality courses in an ideal, year-round climate, La Manga Club is the perfect golf destination. With a choice of three superb, 18-hole championship courses, each with its own unique style and terrain, but all offering tranquil surroundings and many outstanding views, there is something to challenge golfers of all ages and abilities. For further information: Golf at La Manga Club Tel: +34 968 175 000 Ext: 1360 Fax: +34 968 175 058 E-mail: golf@lamangaclub.com 30385 Los Belones. Cartagena (Murcia)Spain