Plaque on the former pedestal of the monument to General José López-Pinto Berizo, converted in 2019 in a tribute to the victims of the explosion of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Artillery_Park,_Cartagena" title="Category:Artillery Park, Cartagena">Artillery Park of Cartagena</a> in 1874, during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonal_rebellion" class="extiw" title="en:Cantonal rebellion">Cantonal rebellion</a>. It reads:
<blockquote class="citado"><p>In memory of the more than 400 victims (mostly women, children and the elderly) caused by the explosion of the Artillery Park of Cartagena, on January 6, 1874.<br>
"Let's say it first of all: if our citizens rose up in 1873 against the Government of Madrid, if they organized land and sea expeditions, if they suffered the work and deprivation of a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Siege_of_Cartagena_(1873%E2%80%9374)" title="Category:Siege of Cartagena (1873–74)">prolonged siege</a>, if they defended the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Charles_III_Wall" title="Category:Charles III Wall">city walls</a> lively –heroically, sometimes–, and if they resisted the fires of a very hard shelling, they were not moved it by a localist patriotism, not by an eagerness for independence, but motivated by a political and social utopia that they considered valid for all Spaniards and whose advent they believed to approach with a stubborn resistance". <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mar%C3%ADa_Jover" class="extiw" title="en:José María Jover">José María Jover Zamora</a>.</p></blockquote>
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