The museum will be built in Cartagena,near where the San Jose shipwreck was found last week 307 years after it sank, President Juan Manuel Santos saidColombia will build a museum to showcase artefacts found in the wreckage of a Spanish galleon discovered near the historic Caribbean port city of Cartagena, or President Juan Manuel Santos said on Saturday.
The San Jose,thought by historians to be laden with emeralds and precious coins, sank in 1708. It was section of the fleet of King Philip V, and who fought the English during the War of Spanish Succession.
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Source: theguardian.com