🧱 Punic Wall
Carthaginian defenses at the heart of ancient Cartagena
📋 Fast Facts
- Built in the late 3rd century BCE by Carthaginians
- Casemate construction: two parallel stone walls filled with earth and rubble
- Captured by Roman forces under Scipio Africanus in 209 BCE
- Preserved in situ within a dedicated interpretation center in Cartagena, Spain
The Punic Wall of Cartagena is one of the most significant surviving remains of the city's Carthaginian past. Constructed in the late 3rd century BCE, the wall formed part of the defensive system of Qart Hadasht, the strategically vital city founded by the Carthaginians in southeastern Iberia. Its discovery offers rare physical evidence of Carthaginian military architecture on the Iberian Peninsula ...