This is a great musuem it has hundreds of wonderful artifacts found in the ruined ships at the…read morebottom of the harbour, the musuem is modern and has computers to show you around diffrent nautical sites in spain. The discoverys come from the roman and the punic era and include some wonderful elephant tusks with writing on them, silver coins and oil burners as well as statues and parts of ships. There are several different monitors which have different cartoon games showing you what it was like in roman times and several tubes of water with intereative devices like divers and vacuums to show you how the arceology was discovered the site has everything in english and spansih and has some really interesting descriptions of what it was like in cartagena years ago. Disabled access is great there are lifts and ramps the musueam is down the ramp and the nice cafe is on the first floor there is full wheelchair access to all the displays it was 3 euros to get in with under 18 and over 60 free well worth a visit

Amazing views from the rooms. The staff was very pleasant and the meals were fine. We arrived in…read moremid-May before the summer crowds had great weather and felt like we had the entire place to ourselves.

This is the second largest Roman Theatre on the Iberian Peninsula., It is believed it dates back to…read morethe first century BC. Amphitheater was opened in honor of the visit of Gaius Cesar, grandson of Emperor Augustus. After the fall of Rome in the 3rd century, a market was built over the theatre. The theatre could accommodate more than 6,000 people. Amphitheater is accessed thru Roman Theatre Museum. We happened to stumble upon it while taking stairs behind the block. It looks really impressive from approximately 6th floor perspective, end unobstructed view was free. Definitely must do even if you're spending only few hours in town.

This is a great place the museum of the roman theatre it starts as a tunnel with a few displays of…read moreartifacts like bone dice and a gold ring and leads you to the lift, the first floor has a few roman pillars and some statues you go back in the lift and go along to the roman ampitheatre outside when you go out you are actually going under the corridor which has a church above you you go over a roman floor mosaic into the roman ampitheatre this is very impressive with its seats down to the actual stage itself which you can get up on there are some latin inscriptions on a marble portico which you walk under to get to some pillars and a gardn which is no longer there The ampitheatre sat several thousand people and you can close your eyes and picture them sitting around If you dont want to go in you can walk up the back streets to get a view over the ampitheatre but it is much better to explore The fact that the seating and steps of the theatre are stilll around is very impressive it is a wonderful place to come for a peaceful walk and sit down