The Historical Helmet of the city is placed on five small so called hills: Small mill, Mount Sacred, Monte de San José, Despeñaperros and Monte de la Concepción, it that gave place to which knew antiquity as "The small Rome" in .

Cartagena constitutes a big plane inclined with direction NON-@ limited: to the north and northwest for the pre-coastal saws (Carrascoy, The Port, The Hamlets, Columbar and It Staggers), and for the south and south-west for the coastal saws (The Carob, The Millstone, Pelayo, Fat woman, The Fausilla and Mine-layer, with his last spurs in End of Sticks). The domineering materials are sedimentary, as her limestone, and metamorphic, like the slate, marble, etc.

In his big municipal term localities and dispersed hamlets include a big number of that admistran under the figure of the Delegations. Between these localities they are End of Sticks and south half of the arm of ground called The Sleeve, of big tourist importance, both in the delegation of Ricón de San Ginés. Other delegations are Saint Lucia, Quarries, La Palma, Dumps, up to a whole of 24. Inside them there are numerous Towns, districts and hamlets.

Cartagena Carthaginian Asdrúbal Beautiful was founded about the year 227 adC by the general with the name of Qart Hadasth (City Piece of news). Nevertheless, there are indications from which the Phoenicians came to coasts now Spanish in the VIIIth century adC and one believes that on Vth century adC there came the mastienos that would found Mastia, the capital of the tribe, what today is the hill of the Small mill. News of Mastia appears in a work called Now Marine, of the Latin poet Avieno, and also in the agreement signed between Carthage and Rome in the year 348 adC (Mastia Tarseion). Qart Hadasth was the principal city of Carthaginians in Spain, and of her Aníbal divided in his famous one expedition to Italy, which would lead him to crossing the Alps, on having begun the Second War Púnica in the year 218 adC. The Roman general Escipión took Cartagena in the year 209 adC, being a Roman possession since then with the name of Carthago Nova, and one of the cities more important Romans of Hispania.

After the Roman presence was established in Hispania, Carthago Nova depended administratively on the Near Spain. Further on, in times of the emperor Diocleciano, Cartagena became cardinal of the Roman province Carthaginiensis. After the fall of the Empire of Occident and the establishment of the German kingdoms in Spain, Cartagena happened to belong to the Byzantine Empire during the campaign of conquest mediteránea of Justiniano I. During the second decade of the VIIth century the visigoths directed by king Sisebuto, took and destroyed the city, causing a deep decline.

During the Arab domination, Cartagena experienced the true one recovery. In 1245 the reconquest of the city takes place, and it restores the episcopate of Cartagena, although a few years later her head office moved to Murcia. Cartagena experienced the big one recovery with the establishment of the dynasty of Bourbon in the XVIIIth century, period into which Cartagena turns in capital of the Marine Department of the Mediterranean, and there are constructed numerous works of military character, like the walls of the city and the diverse castles that surround it, as well as the Hospital of It marinates. In the frame of the illustrated tendencies of the epoch, her city went so far as to have a botanical garden, which regrettably was devastated during the War of the Independence.

In the XIXth century the most important event is the revolution cantonal of July, 1873, in which the city raised against central government in defense of the federalist theses. raising of Cartagena took big relevancy as the importance military man of the city, which resisted until in January, 1874 them troops of general López Domínguez entered the city. During enclosed siege minted currency. During the Spanish Civil war of 1936-1939 Cartagena was the only naval base that stayed under control of the Republic, and the last city coming across of infuriated, on March 31, 1939. At present Cartagena forms part of the autonomous region of the Region of Murcia, and head office is of the Regional Assembly.

Buildings and religious monuments
Augusteum:
Emperor sedates Roman building of the priests dedicated to the cult of . Ist century A.D.

Cathedral of Santa Maria the Old woman:
After the reconquest of Cartagena in 1245 the ancient one restored episcopate of Cartagena and the construction of a church began cathedral. This building spent for diverse vicissitudes, until to it was reconstructed the ends of the XIXth century by the architect Víctor Beltrí in style Neorrománico. During the Spanish Civil war several bombings affected him in such a way that it stayed in ruins, the state in the one that is at present. It is along with Roman theater, and part of the elements of this one used for construction of the cathedral. In a crypt of the cathedral it preserves a Roman mosaic.

Church of Carmen (1710): It was the church of a convent.
Church of Santo Domingo: military church of the city. Raised on an ancient convent Dominican of 1580. He emphasizes the Chapel of Vicious brotherhood of 1695 of baroque style.
Church of Santa Maria of Grace: constructed throughout the century XVIII and reformed after the Civil war. From her salt them processions of Holy Week.
Church of the Charity: constructed in 1893 in neoclassic style, it preserves elements of the previous church of the XVIIIth century. Boss of Cartagena sedates it , the Virgin of the Charity, Neapolitan image of XVIIIth century that came to the city in 1723. It was part of Hospital of Charity.

Buildings and civil monuments
Wall Púnica, the last rest of the wall constructed by carthagineses, the only in Europe.
Roman theater: overdraft in the 80s, is in process of excavation and restoration.
Decumano: set of Roman buildings discovered in 1968. I plan of roadway (Decumano Máximo) and spa.
House of the Fortune: Roman housing of the Ist century B.C. They emphasize his wall paintings and mosaics.
Tower Blocks up: Roman funeral monument of the Ist century A.D. Call like that for lacking of vain.
Castle of the Concepcion, from which there is a marvelous sight panoramic of the city and of the port. Times of Alfonso X begun to be constructed in . In 1924 the Park was constructed around him Towers.
Wall of Carlos III, also called Wall of the Sea, ordered to build for Carlos III in 1766.
Doors of San Jose: two vaults that stay of this door of wall receive the municipal tourism ofina. Contemporaries of wall.
Submarine Pear tree, the first submarine electrical torpedo boat of the world, constructed by the native of Cartagena Isaac Peral. Dumped in 1888.
Consistorial palace, modernist building finished in 1907. It plants triangular.
Monument to the Heroes of Cavite and Santiago de Cuba, in memory of the sailors died during the war of Cuba of 1898 with The United States.
Military hospital or of Marina: Constructed between 1749 and 1762 and enclosure in the 80s of the XXth century. After many years of abandonment at present it receives faculties of the Polytechnical University of Cartagena. Military architecture is of neoclassic style with big influence of .
Barracks of Antiguones (1789-1795): the civil building more big of Spain. Faculty of Telecommunications.
Midshipmen's barracks: constructed between 1789 and 1810. At present General services of the Navy. Privileged position on wall looking at the sea.
General captaincy: Neoclassic building of 1738. Placed in the Square of San Sebastian.
Artillery park: Constructed in 1776, an explosion remained almost destroyed for during the Cantonal War. At present museum of artillery.
Castles that surround the city: Almost they all were constructed or reformed in the XVIIIth century in neoclassic style to protect it city. Those of The Moors stand out, Galleys and Lookout.
Palace Pedreño: of the beginning of the XXth century. Modernist.
House Molina: Neoclassic building of ends of the S. XVIII, soon Museum of Holy Week.
House Aguirre: Modernist building constructed between 1898 and 1901 for Victor Veltrí. During the dictatorship it was the local Phalange head office. In a future Regional museum of Modern art.
Master (1906) marries: Modernist building inspired by Gaudí.
House Clarés (1907): Modernist.
House Cervantes (1897-1900).Modernista.
Palace Casatilly (XVIIIth century): At the end of the XIXth century it reformed to receive the Casino of Caragena that todabía remains.
House Llagostera (1915): Decorated with tiles of identical ceramics. Modernist.
House Dorda (1908). Front of baroque inspiration. Style courtyard Arab.
He marries Shoe (1909: He emphasizes his modernist fence.
Big Hotel (1907-1916): the work most representative of the modernism in the Region of Murcia. It already does not have hotel use. It has six plants. The front is of artificial stone and red brick.
Building The Councilor: Constructed for the Company of the Widening in 1904. Eclectic style.
Train station: Modernist building constructed in 1906.
Graduated schools: There were the first ones of Spain in 1903.
Bullring: inaugurated in 1857 the last bullfight was in 1986. At present in ruins. Under her a Roman amphitheater is of the Ist century B.C. that can see in someone areas.

Sights
In addition to the monuments and buildings enumerated earlier, between more important sights of Cartagena can be quoted:

The ancient Hospital of Marina and the Barracks of Antiguones, at present buildings of the Polytechnical University of Cartagena.
The refuges of the Civil war that are in the street Gisbert, under the Park Torres.
The Municipal Archaeological museum, in whose interior can find a necropolis paleocristiana.
The Naval Museum.
The National museum of Marine Archaeology.
The Arsenal of Cartagena.
Coast batteries.
The Tower of Saint Helena (The Azohía).
The cemetery of The Remedies, with big pantheons quantity and monumental modernist graves. Also it falls down of Isaac Peral.

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