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Lorca manages to take a decisive step to join the Network of Jewish Quarters (15/01/2019)

The Commission of Admission of New Cities has notified this morning to the City Council the decision.

In the coming weeks a delegation from the Network of Spanish Jewish Quarters will visit the municipality to learn first-hand about the existing legacy.

The Deputy Mayor of Lorca and Councilor for Tourism, Francisco Montiel, reported that the Commission Admission of New Cities has notified this morning to the City Council that the candidacy defended by the Mayor, Fulgencio Gil, last week in Madrid for the incorporation of Lorca to the Network of Jewish Quarters of Spain, has managed to be designated Finalist.

In this way, the municipality certifies the achievement of a key advance for the Jewish heritage that our city treasures have a global promotion and dissemination platform.

We are facing a very good news that we can feel proud of all Lorca, and that encourages us to move forward with our work.

Francisco Montiel stressed that the defense of the candidacy made by the Mayor has been decisive for Lorca's aspirations, which we hope will be successfully completed during the next visit that representatives of the Jewish Network have already anticipated that they will effect our city in the coming weeks.

In fact, we have already anticipated that the ongoing work will be completed with an institutional visit by a delegation from the Network of Jewish Quarters, which will be held before March 6 to learn first-hand about the Sephardic patrimony of Lorca.

In the letter that we have known today, from the Network of Jewish Quarters we have been congratulated for having reached this last step, and we are grateful for our willingness and collaboration throughout the process.

The Vice Mayor has ratified that Lorca maintains an institutional commitment as a city for the dissemination of this culture, and discovered heritage.

We want Lorca to be part of this institution to add our momentum to this prestigious network and share the legacy inherited by the cultures and civilizations that inhabited this land, and we want to do it working hand in hand with the best destinations: those that make up the Network of Jewish Quarters "Roads of Sefarad".

Entering the Network of Jewish Quarters of Spain "Caminos de Sefarad" would be an extraordinary news for all Lorca, put that we speak of a model organization, a space for culture and tourism from the respect, from the collective work for a greater good , from the dialogue between different populations that share a legacy and the desire to make it known.

We want to be part of the prestigious Network of Spanish Jewish Quarters to multiply the dissemination of the vestiges of Jewish culture in Lorca that are unique, especially the medieval Synagogue, which is the only one not desecrated in Spain.

Lorca, thanks to its extensive historical roots that go back 5,500 years ago, constitutes an important archaeological site.

In fact, we are one of the oldest cities in southern Europe.

We are proud of our past and of the Jewish trace, whose legacy we wanted to honor by making him known and proposing an approach to this culture.

Since the discovery of the synagogue and the Jewish quarter occurred Lorca have developed a very large battery of actions to enhance this legacy, learn more about our Jewish past and promote it at all levels.

The starting point was the year 2006 with the celebration of a conference on Jewish-Sephardic culture as well as an exhibition about the Jewish presence in Late Medieval Lorca, with the participation of the President of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain and the Director of the American Sephardi Federation of New York.

In 2009, Lorca organized the ambitious exhibition "Lights of Sepharad" in which, through the remains of the Janukiki, ritual lamps, and other decorative elements found in the excavations, we promoted our Jewish legacy in different towns.

On the occasion of this exhibition, the director of the Jewish Heritage Research Center and professor at the University of Syracuse in New York, Samuel Gruber, the Director of the Marco Polo System in Venice, Pietrangelo Petterno, the professor of Master in Jewish Art from the Jewish Theological University of New York, Vivian Mann, or the Secretary General of Casa Sefarad Israel in Madrid, Ángel Vázquez Díaz.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca

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