Where is Cartagena?
It comes as a considerable shock to people in Cartagena that hardly anybody has heard of their city. Hardly in anyone in Britain, Northern Europe, Asia or the United States, that is. Of course, the quarter of a million or so people who live in Cartagena, which is in southern Spain, have heard of the place, as have millions of other Spanish people. Things arent helped by the fact that if you search for Cartagena on the Internet you end up with pages of entries on some other city in South America with the same name. In fact, that place is properly known as Cartagena de Indias and it was named after the original, genuine version in Spain. So, now at least were on the right continent. On the map of Spain if you put your finger on Alicante and then follow the coastline south you will eventually find the port city of Cartagena, in the province of Murcia. No-one has ever heard of Murcia either. To complicate things even more, the regional capital has the same name as the province itself Murci
