Rock Imperium
Rock Imperium Festival is the main Rock and Heavy Metal festival in the Spanish Levante region. Cartagena, with its 3,000 years of history, is the perfect city to host one of the festivals with the greatest national and international projection, as it is a city with endless possibilities where you can enjoy its cultural and monumental legacy, the wonderful beaches of its region, its gastronomy and its people. Next to the Carlos III's wall, it is located the spectacular Parque de la Cuesta del Batel, an unbeatable location for the two main stages of the festival, an impressive enclosure that has all the amenities and services to offer a unique experience to its audience.
The Museums Night
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The Night of the Museums of Cartagena, has become an important event in the cultural life of the city, where music, drama, dance and exhibitions are the main protagonists.
The event offers museums and their professionals the opportunity to get closer to the general public and society and make them aware of the changes that museums are developing, with a wide range of cultural and leisure activities, complementary to the temporary and permanent exhibitions of museums.
Folklore Festival
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In La Palma, folkloric performances, festivals, tastings, exhibitions and singing cafés are held by the folkloric group "Ciudad de Cartagena", in order to recover the traditions and dances of the Cartagena countryside.
La Mar de Músicas
It is an International festival dedicated eminently, although not exclusively, to World Music, every year since 1998 it focuses a part of its poster on inviting artists from a specific country. It is celebrated in the month of July. Its main headquarters are the Paco Martín Auditorium, a stage located on a hill, from which you can see the port, the Roman Theater and the city.
Habaneras Festival
In the incomparable setting of Cabo de Palos, on the shore of the Mediterranean, the aim is to fill the August night with a conglomerate of sounds, colors and flavors, projected on the sky, the moon and the sea, with the participation of corals from Cartagena as well as Torrevieja, Totana or Murcia.
Trovalia
It is an International Festival of Improvised Oral Poetry, organized by the Asociación Trovera José María Marín and which replaces the Trovo National Contest. It is celebrated every year in the month of August. Improvisers from various countries of Latin America and Spain take part of this festival, resulting in a magical mixture of different music and ways of improvising poetry verses.
Cartagena's Jazz Festival
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It has been celebrated during the month of November since 1980. It brings together the most prestigious figures of this music in Cartagena. Parallel to the concerts, there are live performances in different spaces and venues in the city.
International Film Festival
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During the month of December the Cartagena Film Festival floods the city with films through its different categories: Feature Films, Animated Tale, Documentaries, Official Short Film Section and MURcine, specializing in the work of regional filmmakers.
Pozo Estrecho Patron Saint Festivities
During the month of January, the council of Pozo Estrecho celebrates its patron saint festivities, on the occasion of the feast of San Fulgencio.
Of the events that take place during this celebration, the most important is the tasting of the famous and typical Pelotas Galileas. This is a tradition that began five decades ago and has become a symbol of local identity with which visitors are entertained. Although the "popular" event is the tasting of the Galilean balls, in the morning there is a solemn mass in honour of the patron saint, followed by a procession through the streets of the town, accompanied by the band Agrupación Musical Santa Cecilia.
MU-Danzas
The MU-Danzas festival was born with the concern of creating a cultural fabric in the city of Cartagena and the Region of Murcia, around Contemporary Dance and new movement and stage languages. MU-Danzas aims to facilitate a meeting point between established artists and new creators of Contemporary Dance, creating the necessary dynamics where they can share the situation of contemporary art in the city and the Region, encouraging union between the different socio-cultural actors, in order to create joint tools and actions, and promote Contemporary Dance with shows in the hall, street and educational centers.
Folk Festival
Cartagena Folk is characterized by being a festive event, with an innovative essence in which traditional music groups and artists in their different facets, show current trends in the reworking of roots music. This festival is held in the Parque de la Rambla next to the Cartagonova Stadium and admission is free.
Cartagena Negra
Cartagena Negra are a series of black and mystery literature, framed within the Black Weeks of Spain, convened from the city of Cartagena. Since its first call in 2016, it has been held in the month of September of the corresponding year.
Cartagena Historical Novel Week
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With the arrival of the first days of October and for 24 years, this festival has been held in which important writers of national stature present their publications with the help of the Historical Novel Week Association of Cartagena in different parts of the city. city.
Cartagena Magic Festival
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This festival is celebrated during the month of April with the aim of transferring culture through magic to every corner of Cartagena, which is why it has small format shows in the street and a grand final gala in which it brings together great magicians. national prestige.
Entre Cuerdas y Metales
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Regional competition promoted by the Cartagena City Council and the Professional Conservatory of Music of the port city to facilitate the artistic careers of thousands of young people. Many of them are already succeeding nationally and internationally.
Festival de Canción Española de Molino Derribao
This Festival is one of the oldest in the region and has numerous milestones. Thirty years in which guest stars such as Perlita de Huelva, Ana Reverte or Rocío Marquez among other voices have passed through the stages of the Molino Derribao sports center.
The Fort Concerts
Concerts organized by Cartagena Puerto de Culturas that are held in the Christmas Fort, a 19th century fortress, which is accessed from a tourist boat that leaves from the port of Cartagena, also feature a tapas tasting.
Weekend DJ Festival
Free music and emerging talent festival held at the Port Esplanade, together with Héroes de Cavite in the month of June.
Hermosa Fest
Festival that is celebrated in the month of October in Cabo de Palos with the aim of creating a space of diversity, respect and entertainment promoted from culture, combining commercial music with local music bands.
Mucho Más Mayo
Mucho Más Mayo Emerging Art Festival is a program of artistic interventions in the urban environment developed by creators of all creative registers, using public spaces and unconventional places in the city and municipality of Cartagena that is celebrated throughout the month of May. .
FICC
During the month of December, the Cartagena Film Festival floods the city with films through its different sections: Feature Films, Animated Stories, Documentaries, Official Short Film Section and MURcine, specialized in the works of regional filmmakers.
Cabo de Pop Festival
It is a multidisciplinary Festival that features musical and artistic performances, sports activities for the whole family, gastronomy, craft market and guided tours. It is carried out in different locations in Cabo de Palos.
Cartagena Jonda
Flamenco Cycle in which meetings, presentations, concerts and a gala are held, concentrating its programming on the native songs and dances of the different editions, it is organized by La Peña Flamenca Antonio Piñana.
Urban CT Fest
The Urban Ct Fest is a participatory Festival that has the objective of placing the city of Cartagena on the map of Urban Culture, also called Hip Hop Culture. From its four essential modalities we will show the general vision of this movement.
Estrella Levante Fest Carthagineses y Romanos
Pop music festival that is held on the esplanade of La Rambla during the month of September within the program of the city's Carthagineses and Romanos festivals.