Four guided visits every weekend with something for both adults and children!

As of Friday 1st May the opening hours of the Roman Theatre Museum in Cartagena, by some distance the most popular of all the museums in the Region of Murcia, is extending its opening hours for the summer, welcoming visitors between 10.00 and 20.00 from Tuesday to Saturday and from 10.00 to 14.00 on Sundays.

In addition, the range of guided tours and special events is being modified as the summer season begins: for example, on Saturday mornings at 10.30 the “Cartagena Romana y Mediterránea” trip resumes, consisting of a walking tour and a boat trip in the natural harbour which made Cartagena the important trading and naval base it is. The route begins at the Roman Theatre Museum at 10.30 and continues to the Roman Forum (including the thermal baths and the sanctuary to Isis and Serapis) before hopping on board the tourist boat at 16.30 to understand why the location was so important to the Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Carthaginians and the Romans, long before the Moors and Christian rulers took control in the Middle Ages.

Bookings are available online here at 16 euros (14 euros for those entitled to discounts).

Also on Saturdays, this time starting at 11.00, is the family tour “Escipión Versus Anibal”, which relates the battle for control of the city in 209 BC between the Carthaginian forces of Hannibal and Roman general Scipio. This took place in the context of the Second Punic War between the two Empires, with Rome emerging triumphant.

Bookings are available online here at 4 euros and the tour is appropriate for children aged 4 to 12.

Sundays see two weekly events during May, the first of which is a tour entitled “Del Teatro a la Domus del Pórtico”. Starting at 11.00, the route begins at the Roman Theatre Museum and heads for the ancient fishing quarter of the city to see the remains of the “Domus del Pórtico”.

Bookings are available online here at 7 euros (3.50 euros for those entitled to discounts).

Finally, another fun and informative event for all the family, with a dramatized tour called “Teo Jones y la Leyenda de la Primera Sirena” (adventurer Teo Jones and the First Mermaid). This contains five scenes acted out by Romans, Carthaginians, accident-prone Teo, intrepid Sara, a mummy and a bus driver, as they recreate a mysterious legend about the forces of evil which aim to destroy the city! This tour starts at 11.30 at the museum.

Bookings are available online here at 18 euros (9 euros for accompanying infants).

Further information and bookings are available by telephone on 968 500093 and 968 504802 or at www.puertodeculturas.cartagena.es.

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