Private tours in Cartagena

Cartagena was founded by the Carthaginians, taken by Rome in 209 BC and has been a naval base ever since. In 1988 a Roman theatre for six thousand people was found under the old cathedral quarter, which nobody had suspected was there. Tour Travel & More organises 100% private tours of Cartagena with a licensed official tour guide, a luxury vehicle with chauffeur and a travel coordinator available 24/7.

Rome under your feet

The theatre was excavated over two decades and is entered through a museum that tunnels under the hill. Around it are the Barrio del Foro Romano, the Punic wall built when Hannibal's family ran the city, and the Casa de la Fortuna with its painted walls. Few cities in Spain give you this much archaeology in such a small area.

The harbour, the castle and the modernist streets

The Castillo de la Concepción looks down over the natural harbour that made the city matter, reached by a panoramic lift. Calle Mayor is lined with modernist buildings paid for by the mining boom of the nineteenth century, and the naval museum and the submarine designed by local inventor Isaac Peral sit on the waterfront.

Murcia and the Ricote valley

Murcia is forty-five minutes inland, with a baroque cathedral façade that looks like a stage set and a casino you have to see to believe. The Ricote valley beyond it was the last Moorish stronghold in the region and is now a green corridor of citrus and apricot.

Arriving by cruise ship

The cruise terminal sits inside the harbour and the Roman theatre is a five-minute walk from the gangway, which makes Cartagena one of the easiest calls in Spain. Your itinerary is planned backwards from your all-aboard time and the coordinator follows the day.

With Tour Travel & More, Cartagena is three thousand years in twenty minutes on foot. Tell us your dates and a travel expert will design your private tour with an official guide.