Day 10 - Cartagena, Spain

After docking in Cartagena, we walked across the street and boarded Segway I-2s for a tour of the city. Here Susan is following our friend, Tom, as we began our ride to the top of the hill.

When we got to the top of the oh-so-steep hill, we arrived at the Castle of "la Concepcion" where we enjoyed a wonderful view of the city and its surroundings including an ancient Roman theater that we would visit later in the day.

We then rode our Segways to the harbor area where we viewed a variety of bronze statues and monuments including this powerful one dedicated to the victims of terrorism.

After getting off the Segways, we walked to the Museum of the Roman Theater of Cartagena. This is an ancient Roman theater built in the first century B.C. that had been recently discovered and is currently under excavation and restoration.

Our final stop of the day was at the Calle Gisbert that was a large excavation built in the hill beneath the Castle of la Concepcion in 1878. It was used by up to 5,500 people as an air-raid shelter during their Civil War in the late 1930's and into WWII.