Colonia Victrix Iulia Nova Carthago (Cartagena)

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Finds point to a former settlement. The city Quart-Hadast was however a Punic city foundation around 229 BC.

AugusteumThe Romans conquered the city in the year 209 BC. When the renaming in Nova Carthago occurred is not known to me. Carthago became a colony approximately at the time of Gaius Iulius Caesar (44 BC). In the 2nd andTheater 3rd century AD the city decreased. In the 4th century the importance of Carthago increased however again. It became the capital of the new province Carthaginiensis.

DomusAt the beginning of the 5th century big parts of the Iberian peninsula, also Carthago, were conquered by the Visigoths.

From the year 552 a part of the Mediterranean Sea coast of the peninsula was occupied by Byzantium. This was an attempt to reconstruct the roman empire. Around theGrave tower years AD 621/623 Carthago Spartaria became a military and administrative center. Then it was reconquered by the Visigoths.

Today still some remains from the roman Carthago are to see. These had in the year 2004 the following business hours:
Something When Remark
Castillo Concepción (1) 10.00 to 14:30 / 16.00 to 20.00 o'clock Reused material, cistern (possibly Roman)
Muralla Punica (1) 10.00 to 14.00 / 16.00 to 20.00 o'clock Punic wall
Augusteum 16.00 to 20.00 o'clock Emperor sanctuary next to the forum
Decumanus 16.00 to 20.00 o'clock Decumanus with rests of thermal springs and a house
Casa de la Fortuna (2) 10.30 to 14.30 o'clock Rests of a Domus, a street and parts of a further house
Amphitheater freely accessible Few rests of the amphitheater
Theater in restoration, at 9.00 o'clock short visit
Capitolium freely accessible, in, restoration
Porticus freely accessible Columns of a porticus
Torre Ciega freely accessible Tomb tower
Byzantine wall entrance through a picture gallery only in the business hours

Opened Tuesday to Sunday

(1) July/August: Monday to Sunday
(2) Saturday/Sunday: 10.30 to 14.30 / 16.00 to 20.00 o'clock

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