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Title: Spain and Portugal: handbook for travellers
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker London : Dulau and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
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f Spain, and also one of the three largest DepartamentosMaritimos. It lies on the N. bank of a deeply indented bay and inthe W. part of the bleak Sierra de Cartagena, which extends to theE. to Cape Palos. It is dominated by the Castillo de la Concepclon(230 ft.; PL 7), a hill sprinkled with many ruins. The narrow en-trance to the harbour, which after that of Vigo is the largest in thecountry, is protected by the Castillo de las Galeras (650 ft.; W.)and the Castillo de San Julian (920 ft. ; E.), two forts crowning twoprecipitous volcanic cliffs. The outer part of the bay is sheltered onthe S.E. by the small island of Esconibrera, the ancient Scombraria(place of mackerel fishing), and the town is protected on the flanksby three other forts, the Atalaya (655 ft.) on the W. and the Castillode Despenaperros and the Castillo de los Moros on the E. In the back-ground, between Forts Atalaya and Las Galeras, is seen the volcanicAlgameca. — The climate of Cartagena is singularly mild; but the
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to Cartagena. CARTAGENA. 38. Route. 337 Mistral, or N.W. wind, is often troublesome in winter. The town isfurnished with excellent drinking-water by a new aqueduct. The situation of the town, resembling that of the African Carthageand admirably adapted for the headquarters of a naval power, testifies tothe perspicacity of Hasdrubal, the son-in-law and successor of HamilcarBarcas, in founding here (B.C. 221), on the site of an ancient Iberiansettlement, the new royal citadel of the Carthaginian dominion in Spain.It answers exactly to the description of Polybius, who spent some timehere with Scipio the Younger in B.C. 151 and has given a graphic accountof the conquest of the town by Publiui Corn. Scipio Africanut Major inB.C. 209. The temple of iEsculapius-Eshmun occupied the site of theCastillo de SanJJulian, and the castle of the Barcas family lay on the hillof G-aleras. Under the Romans Cartagena still passed for the richest andlargest town in the peninsula, and it alternated with Ta

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