Cartagena is a port city and a naval base in the Murcia region of southeast Spain founded around 220 B.C. The city boomed during the Roman period and many Roman ruins are a 1st century B.C.
Cartagena has been the capital of the Spanish Navy’s Maritime Department of the Mediterranean since the arrival of Spanish bourbons in the 18th century. It was the most important naval port in Spain in the 16th century, together with Ferrol in the North.

Important landmarks/places nearby
National Museum of Underwater Archeology is an underwater archaeology museum. It owns a large collection of pieces recovered from shipwrecks that begins in the Phoenician period.
Naval Museum Cartagena is a Military Museum that presents exhibitions related to naval constructions. It is basically a subsidiary of the Naval Museum of Madrid.
Castillo de la Concepción is an Emblematic hilltop medieval castle from where one can see a very beautiful scene of sea and mountains.
Municipal Archeological Museum of Cartagena presents some nice stones and scriptures from ancient times.
A civil war museum which presents to the people about Spanish civil war.

Crime rate
The overall crime rate is 45 which is moderate. One can take walk during daylight. It is safer, but can also go for a walk at night.
Most of the crimes are of robbing and things were stolen. Being attacked physically because of ethnicity, skin colour, origin or gender is very less likely.

Nearby Airports

Región de Murcia International Airport is the nearest International airport.
Alicante Airport is a Modern terminal and local transport link.

Nearby Subways and train stations

Cartagena is the nearest railway station.
Some other nearby railway stations are Hospital, Vista Alegre.

Technical University of Cartagena