The Socialists are committed to a new ornamental lighting to endow the city of one aspect of greatness, dignity and beauty, in order to break with the image "dull and careless" that the Popular Party of Lorca offers locals and visitors
After a study by the Municipal Socialist Group on the state of conservation and maintenance of the sculptures and urban monuments of Lorca, the PSOE Councillor, Maria Antonia Garcia Jimenez concluded in the proposal that the city of Lorca develops, the greater as soon as possible, a lighting project and sustainable maintenance, aimed at improving the urban landscape quality of our streets and historic sites, "to highlight the uniqueness of these elements, and enhance the attraction of our city, so neglected by the current team Popular Party government. "
Based on an inventory, says Garcia Jimenez, "date at the municipal website," the PSOE has inspected a relationship of sculptures and monuments "urgently they require care and extol, not only for aesthetic question now that our city will be visited by thousands of people, but also to keep alive the tribute that the people of Lorca made and carried out when it decided to raise personal illustrious representations, allegories or arts. "
Among the sculptures and monuments for which the socialist mayor calls for concrete actions, "currently no spotlight, and lacking in months of one of its most characteristic elements emphasizes the bust of Eliodoro Puche, in the Handrails placeta,: Goggles author, stolen by an act of vandalism. "
Garcia Jimenez also calls for "more and better lighting, and care" for the sculpture Tanners Square, devoid of any lighting installation, and for historical source Negrito, designed by the Belgian engineer C. Marsillon, and one of the few ecléticas ornamental work in our city.
Lorca busts bullfighter, Pepin Jimenez;
Musician Narciso Yepes, or pastor Antonio Llamas, opposite the Church of Carmen;
sculpture the migrant in the hamlet of La Paca;
the wake of the relief of the Jewish people, in front of the Chapel of the Rosary;
the source of the Plaza de San Vicente, or even individual trees, as the olive tree in the Plaza del Caño "to reach museizarlo and save him from the arboricides behavior of the PP" are other sculptural elements, according to the socialist mayor "go sadly unnoticed for pedestrians, lacking an ornamental lighting capable of extolling its appeal and hearth ".
Garcia Jimenez expressed his puzzlement that the government team PP prefer to remain committed "by mediocrity and cultural vacuum, instead of betting on the strengthening of friendly and attractive city to live and to be the object of desire by of future visitors and tourists. "
Based on their estimates, and through a draft presented as a budget, the Socialist Group claim that "although this project can be expensive, could be done in stages and could take advantage of the many advantages of innovative lighting resources low power consumption and less polluting, such as LED type ".
Source: PSOE Lorca