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Local events from age old traditions
The annual Carnival is staged in February, Holy Week is celebrated in March/April, with
processions and street events. There are music festivals in May and November, the latter
being the International Jazz Festival, a turbulent history is remembered with a re-enacted
conflict of The Carthaginians and Romans in September and in December is the
International Cinema Festival.
Nearby towns too hold their own events, including many Spring Festivals and The Festival
of the White Horses in Caravaca in March.
Wide choice of contrasting
excursion options
Only a few minutes walk from the cruise terminal are The Naval Museum, the National
Underwater Archaeology Museum, The Civil War Museum, and The Navidad Fort. There
are many Roman remains including the 6,000 capacity Roman Theatre built in the 1st
century BC, discovered as recently as 1987. The Augusteum in the old city takes visitors
back to the glory days of Roman occupation in the 1st and 2nd centuries BC, with an
archaeological treasure of a city that reflects the city’s importance to Rome, featuring
decorated rooms, porticoed galleries and tiled floors.
What is claimed to be the world’s first submarine, built by scientist Isaac Peral, is
remembered with a full size model adjacent to the cruise terminal entrance.
Less than 30 minutes away is Calbanque Regional Park, with beaches and spectacular
Information websites in English cliffs, Atamaria by the Bay of Portman, with the remains of a Roman road, and Sierra de
GOLF:www.murciagolf.org Cartagena and La Reunion, with its memories and remains of Cartagena’s mining days.
PORT AUTHORITY:www.apc.es
TOURIST IOFFICE :www.cartagena.es The Ricote Valley through which flows the River Segura with its palm groves and vestiges
MURCIA TURISTICA:www.murciaturistica.es of the area’s Moorish past and mountainous region of Sierra Espuna with its opportunities
for walks and cycling lie less than an hour away.
Tourism facts
Local population:210,000 Good local air and rail facilities
Language: Spanish and both coastal and inland motorways
Currency:Euro with fast access to all major towns
Time:GMT + 1 hr.
Local banking services San Javier Airport is about 30 kilometres from Cartagena, with services from BMI Baby,
Banking hours:8.30 – 14.30 hrs Easyjet, Iberia, Jet2.com, Monarch, Ryanair, SEAS, Air Berlin, Norwegian Air
Credit cards:all Shuttle and Air Nostrum.
City centre:200 metres.
Railway station:1 kilometre Services fly from Barcelona, Birmingham, Bristol, Dublin, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool,
Airport:30 kilometres London, Madrid, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oslo, Palma de Mallorca,
Local taxis Stavanger and Trondheim.
Shuttle service available
A good motorway network follows north along the coast to Barcelona and onwards to
Port details France and south to Gibraltar and Seville. There is also a direct motorway connection to
Max ship length/width:no limit Madrid, which continues right across Spain to Bilbao, with its ferry terminal, in the north.
Draught:12 metres Madrid is 450 km, Barcelona 650 km, Seville 550 km and Malaga 420 km.
Cruise Terminal length/depth:344m/12.5m
Santa Lucia Quay:385m/12.5m Hotel accommodation
San Pedro Quay:405m/12.1m
Anchorage/tenders allowed:yes Both international hotels and privately owned, family run establishments are plentiful in
Pilotage: yes, compulsory Cartagena and nearby towns. Cartagena has the 4 star Best Western Alfonso X111 and
Tugs available:yes several well run four and three star establishments. Nearby La Manga has the five star
Tidal movement range:65cms Principe Felipe and around a dozen four star establishments. Five star accommodation is
Services:ship repair, bunkering, also available at the Hotel Mar Menor Golf Resort and Spa with four star hotels also
waste & garbage disposal, sewage disposal, available locally.
water supply, provisions.
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