Cartagena - Palacio Consistorial

The Iberian predecessor settlement of Cartagena was in 227 BC. naval and military base, de facto the capital of the Carthaginians on the Iberian Peninsula. From here Hannibal set off for Italy at the beginning of the Second Punic War (218 BC). The Romans conquered the city in 209 BC. BC and called it Carthago Nova. Carthago Nova was the most important silver mining region of the Roman Empire. According to Polybius, 40,000 people worked in the silver mines here.

It was destroyed by the Vandals in 425, was probably Visigothic in 475, and Byzantine in 554. Under the name Carthago Spartaria, it was the capital of the Eastern Roman province of Spania before it became Visigoth again in 625. From 711, after the fall of the Visigothic Empire, it became part of the Todmir Empire, and in 756 it became part of the Emirate of Córdoba. Conquered by King James I (Jaime el Conquistador) in 1269, it came to Aragon in the course of the Christian Reconquista, now called Cartagena.
The "Palacio Consistorial de Cartagena", aka "Cartagena City Hall") was built between 1900 and 1907.

Due to its construction on unstable land reclaimed from the sea, and a deficient foundation system, the building began to suffer significant structural damage that led to a progressive process of ruin, so in 1995 the building was closed and restoration work was undertaken.

In 2006 these restoration and consolidation works were completed, and today the building looks again with the splendor with which it was inaugurated.