April 11, 2025
After a short overnight sailing, we arrived this morning in the picturesque harbour of Cartagena Spain. Cartagena is a City of approximately 220,000 on the south east coast of Spain. It has been home to the Spanish Navy fleet for over hundreds of years.Today Cartagena is a major tourist destination and cruise port. One of the major attractions are the unearthed buildings from the Roman era, including a 7000 seat Roman amphitheatre.
Today we joined a walking tour from the ship into downtown including a visit to the Roman theatre. The City has an abundance of old historical buildings. The streets are all paved with slate tiles, which makes it very nice to walk on. From the get go my camera was busy shooting pictures from all the old history all around us. We shortly came up to the entrance of the old Roman theatre. This site was not discovered till 1987 during the excavation for a new building. The excavation was completed and opened to the public in 2007. It is a very impressive site. All over the City are ruins of sites which still have to be excavated. It is literally an archaeologist’s candy store. The remaining part of our tour was visiting 5 different establishments for tapas and a drink of sangria or vino. We surely enjoyed all those treats. After our last tapa stop we returned into the city for some souvenir shopping. Our walk to the ship was easy, as we were docked right downtown.
Cheers
Cor and Carol
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