The city that was "independent" of Spain for a year and wanted to be from the USA

In 1873, this place was declared an independent republic, it prohibited religious teaching, it coined its own coinCartagena Puerto de Culturas: the project that in two decades has dug up the jewel of Mediterranean cultural tourism Spain has a history full of unusual episodes, and some of them seem drawn from a novel. Among them it highlights one that, although little known, was about to rewrite the European political map. In the summer of 1873, …