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Things to do in Cartagena

A Roman theatre, a deep natural harbour and three thousand years of history on the Murcia coast

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Why visit Cartagena

Founded by the Carthaginians and rebuilt by Rome as Carthago Nova, Cartagena has been a strategic port for most of its history. Its most striking monument, a Roman theatre for several thousand spectators, lay buried under the old town until the late 1980s and is now the centrepiece of a museum designed around it.

The rest of the centre rewards a slow walk: a quarter of excavated Roman streets and baths, Modernist façades along Calle Mayor, a working naval harbour and the coastal forts on the hills around the bay. It is a good stop on the way along the Mediterranean, or a day out from the beaches of the Mar Menor.

Highlights

  • The Roman Theatre and its museum
  • Excavated streets and baths of the Roman Forum quarter
  • Modernist buildings along Calle Mayor
  • The harbour and the forts around the bay
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