Puerto de Cartagena
Puerto de Cartagena lies in a sheltered bay that has long ranked among the safest natural harbours in Spain. Ships have worked its water for more than 3,000 years. The shelter made the harbour a strategic gateway to the Mediterranean.
The Carthaginians arrived first, and the Romans followed, stationing one of their most important Mediterranean fleets here. Today the harbour is both a military port and a commercial one. It is also a popular stop for cruise ships.
Walk the modern waterfront promenade and you pass the old city walls, the historic naval arsenal and a museum devoted to submarines. Few working ports keep a museum like that, and Cartagena does. The same bay that once held a Roman fleet now holds warships, cargo ships and cruise liners.
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Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Cartagena. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.
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myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.