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Cartagena City Council

Literary route

Cartagena

Self-guided

Cartagena literary route

Enjoy a literary experience in this ancient city with the Cartagena literary route, and discover its literary corners and secrets!

Type

Self-guided

On foot

Duration

At your own pace · self-guided route

Schedule

Price

Free

Meeting point

Plaza del Cronista Isidoro Valverde, Cartagena

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Difficulty

Easy · old town on foot, with the climb up the Cuesta de la Baronesa

Introduction

An ancient city told by its writers

Did you know that Hans Christian Andersen spent some time in Cartagena, and that Cervantes dedicated some verses to its port? Or that Carmen Conde, the first woman to become a member of the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), was born in an old-town street named after a very tall palm tree? You'll discover all that, and much more, on this Cartagena literary route.

The route was designed by the Carmen Conde – Antonio Oliver Trust, the City Council body that looks after the legacy of this married couple of writers, and it takes you through the squares, streets, busts and plaques of the old town, following the writers who were born in, lived in or wrote about the city: from Saint Isidore to Pérez-Reverte, by way of Galdós, Sender, Vicente Medina, María Dueñas and José Hierro.

How it works

Self-guided, free and with an audio guide

The route starts in Plaza del Cronista Isidoro Valverde, in front of the chronicler's bust, and ends at the port, opposite the two lighthouses at the harbour mouth to which Carmen Conde dedicated some verses. Along the way you cross the old town from one end to the other: Plaza de la Merced, Calle del Carmen, Plaza de San Francisco, Calle Mayor and the Muralla del Mar.

It's a self-guided itinerary, so you can do it at your own pace. What's more, the Trust gives you everything you need for free: a PDF with the route and each writer's passages to read on the spot, a map with the stops and an audio guide lasting about 47 minutes. Download them before you set off and you'll have the whole route in your pocket.

Below are the stops on the route and the authors linked to each one.

The stops on the route

  • Plaza del Cronista Isidoro Valverde – Isidoro Valverde (1929-1995)
  • Plaza de Jaime Bosch and Calle San Diego – José Martínez Monroy (1837-1861)
  • Plaza de la Merced – Francisco Villamartín (1833-1872)
  • Bulevar José Hierro del Real – José Hierro (1922-2002)
  • Plaza de Risueño – Antonio Oliver Belmás (1903-1968) and Benigno Risueño de Amador (1802-1849)
  • Calle de la Caridad, Serreta and San Fernando – Ramón J. Sender, Ginés de Arlés and Esteban Satorres
  • Calle Canales – Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  • Calle del Carmen – Carmen Conde (1907-1996)
  • Calle Puerta de Murcia – Francisco Cascales
  • Plaza de San Sebastián, Calle Jara and Balcones Azules – María Dueñas and Leopoldo Augusto de Cueto, Marquis of Valmar (1815-1901)
  • Plaza de San Francisco – José María Álvarez, Isidoro Máiquez (1768-1820) and Leandro Fernández de Moratín
  • Plaza de San Ginés de la Jara – María Dolores Bas Bonald
  • Calle de los Cuatro Santos – Saint Isidore and Benito Pérez Galdós
  • Barrio de los Pescadores – Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  • Calle del Cañón – Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
  • Calle Mayor – Vicente Medina (1866-1937)
  • Plaza de José María Artés – Teresa Arróniz (1827-1890) and her nephews Valentín and Francisco Arróniz
  • Plaza del Ayuntamiento – Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
  • Muralla del Mar – Ramón J. Sender and Fernando Garrido (1821-1883)
  • Plaza de los Héroes de Cavite y Santiago de Cuba – Miguel Pelayo (1880-1957)
  • Port – Carmen Conde

The map

Route and main stops

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