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Cartagena - Museo del Teatro Romano
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.
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The Roman theater was built around 5 BC. Built. Built. It had a capacity of around 6,000 spectators. Most of the parts have now been excavated. The considerable wealth of pieces found in the theater during successive excavation campaigns led to the construction of the "Mvseo del Teatro Romano". The museum is divided into two different buildings. One of them is the Pascual de Riquelme Palace
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Apollo, the lyre player, has lost the lyre he once had on his left hand, but still holds the plectrum between the fingers of the right.
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.
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The Roman theater was built around 5 BC. Built. Built. It had a capacity of around 6,000 spectators. Most of the parts have now been excavated. The considerable wealth of pieces found in the theater during successive excavation campaigns led to the construction of the "Mvseo del Teatro Romano". The museum is divided into two different buildings. One of them is the Pascual de Riquelme Palace
Apolo Citaredo
Apollo, the lyre player, has lost the lyre he once had on his left hand, but still holds the plectrum between the fingers of the right.
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