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The Mayor anticipates that the objective is for the Molino del Batán to house a School of Hospitality for the training of professionals in the sector.
The building and its gardens will be recovered so they can be visited throughout the year.
The Mayor of Lorca, Fulgencio Gil, reported that the city has requested a grant of almost 800,000 euros to finance the works included in the consolidation project of the hydro complex of the Escarambrujo Mill, one of the most important buildings that houses the municipality within the hydraulic heritage legacy.
The First Edil explained that the City has planned the recovery, rehabilitation and implementation of this enclave with the aim of making it available to all Lorca, including that it can be visited by all citizens who wish as soon as possible.
It will be an open space and cultural meeting, an example of our Culture of Water.
One of the main challenges is to get the Molino de Batán to house a School of Hospitality, which will serve to train professionals in the field.
We know that it is not a quick question, but it is time to take the road, because it will be a way to take advantage of this investment and to make available to Lorca an attractive and socially profitable infrastructure.
We are talking about a School of Hospitality that offers professional training and qualification.
Fulgencio Gil has indicated that we are aware of the special difficulties involved in the execution of a work of this depth, with many peculiarities due to the age of the property, which constitutes a challenge when materializing the works.
That is why, once the ownership of it has been transferred to the town of Lorca by its previous owners, we proceeded to write the project that we present today to Lorca.
In the first stage, it is about acting to stabilize the structures that remain standing, including the 3 mills, the structural elements of the construction and their corresponding facades.
For this first step we have the support expressed by both the President of our Region, Fernando López, and the Minister of Culture, Miriam Guardiola, who are aware of the remarkable importance of the
Lorca take care of the water like nobody else, in fact the history of Lorca is determined by the struggle for water, which has resulted in multiple infrastructures that allow us to take advantage of even the smallest available resource, pampering every drop of water.
We are aware of what is really worth and that is something that we have marked in our DNA, so the complex of the Escarambrujo Mill, once we manage to rehabilitate it, will exemplify better than any other element, the ingenuities that we have been able to develop for benefit of our agriculture, and, in general, of our way of life.
Fulgencio Gil has anticipated that the municipal planning contemplates that, once consolidated the building and its mill, are the training and employment workshops carried out by the Department of Local Development who are responsible for implementing the plumbing, electricity, also assuming the masonry, gardening and irrigation tasks, as main issues.
The purpose of the complete restoration of the plot is to establish a multipurpose space that will have a large hall capable of hosting cultural, festive and social events of any kind.
The musealization of the steel and cube mills will also be undertaken, and the plant elements of the exterior will be used for the definition of a visitable botanical garden, as well as a Mediterranean garden.
We are going to establish in Lorca a unique cultural circuit, of which the Molino del Escarambrujo is a key piece.
Lorca are making history recovering our cultural and monumental heritage.
The importance of what we have achieved will be magnified when the next generations evaluate us, I have no doubt.
We are a better and stronger city than before suffering the earthquakes of 2011, and we can be proud of what we have achieved.
The state of the building, according to the criteria of the technician responsible for drafting the project, Francisco José Fernández, is critical, even with several of its parts in ruins.
For this reason, the intervention to be carried out will be very careful.
The objective is to recover lost volumes using traditional construction techniques;
masonry and masonry, with exposed brick factories to differentiate the new works.
For this we resort to the use of traditional elements such as wood, Arab tile, lime mortar, which will allow us to recover the historical image of the whole, which was lost, respecting its line and integrity.
As the most outstanding parts of the Molino del Escarambrujo, we must highlight the work of ashlar masonry of its arches, being the packaging of the building with its hydraulic devices the most striking.
It is one of the most significant examples of infrastructure for the use of water resources, whose origins date back to the 13th century.
It has 3 houses and is located in the district of Rio.
It has 20,005 m2.
The hydraulic complex includes elements of hydraulic engineering used to facilitate the intake of water from the ditch known as Alcalá.
We are talking about a property that has been recognized as an Asset of Cultural Interest with the category of ethnographic place of interest.
Its elements facilitate the intake of water through the Alcala ditch, known today as Sutullena, of Arab origin and dating from the thirteenth century.
According to the documentation available, it was already built and in operation in 1786. It brings together values ​​of outstanding singularity, integrity and authenticity.
As main structures we find the Cubo Mill, the first to be built in 1786 and in which, from the large rafts, the water reached the system of cubes that ensured the milling.
The next one is the Mill of Aceña, so called because the element that turns the whole milling system is a vertical wheel.
Finally, the Batán building is included, built in the first third of the 19th century and transformed into a dwelling.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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