Cartagena Roman Theatre Museum Tickets
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Experience Highlights
Travel 2,000 years back in time with your ticket to the Museum of the Roman Theatre of Cartagena, an archaeological jewel hidden beneath the port city until its spectacular recovery in 2008. Follow a museum itinerary designed by Rafael Moneo that leads to the original stands of the theatre from the end of the 1st century BC.
Access is through the Pascual de Riquelme Palace; show your digital ticket at the ticket office and explore the exhibition rooms, underground passages and the imposing stands at your own pace. Free audio guide via app (Spanish, English, French and German).
- Enter without waiting and organise your visit according to your time.
- Follow an immersive tour: Roman artefacts, models and 3D projections.
- Enjoy unique views over Cartagena from the upper tiers of seating.
What’s included
- Entrance to the Museum and Roman Theatre of Cartagena
- Downloadable audio guide in 4 languages with extra content and interactive maps
- Access to all exhibition halls, archaeological passageways and stands
- Use of free lockers and adapted toilets
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Step by Step
The tour begins on the ground floor of the Art Nouveau palace, where sculptures, mosaics and ceramics found during excavation are on display. Interactive panels explain how the theatre, with a seating capacity of over 6,000, was hidden under medieval and baroque dwellings after centuries of abandonment.
You will walk through a glass gallery suspended over the ancient Roman street that connected to the forum. As you gaze at marble columns and Corinthian capitals, the audio guide recreates the hustle and bustle of Carthago Nova's merchants and citizens.
A corridor carved into the rock leads you to the semicircular portico and, suddenly, the imposing cavea opens up before you: 25 rows of tiers of bleachers that adapt to the hill of the Conception. From here you will understand the perfect acoustics designed for tragedies, comedies and imperial speeches.
Take the time to climb up to the upper vomitorium: the views take in the natural harbour, the old cathedral and the Punic-Roman remains that line the bay. On the way down, the route ends at the bookshop, where you will find reproductions of skylights, coins and informative books.
