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The councilor of this formation, Gloria Martín, also has requested to recover the House of the Counselor to enable a municipal rural hostel.

Both spaces, which are part of the sentimental heritage of Lorca, are threatened by absolute ruin

The Councilor of the United Left-Greens, Gloria Martín, has demanded the new mayor of Lorca, Fulgencio Gil, that the Consistory promotes the acquisition of the municipal heritage of the Cortijo and Molino del Escarambrujo, recently declared a BIC, And of the House of the Councilor, included in the catalog of protected goods of the City Council, both privately owned and close to the Cejo de los Enamorados, in the Sierra de la Peñarrubia.

For Martin, these are two "magnificent opportunities" to provide the municipality with public spaces of great natural, ethnographic, cultural and tourist interest.

"The City Council must commit to the rehabilitation of these buildings and their environment," sentimental heritage of Lorca, who are currently "doomed to absolute ruin," said the mayor of IU-Greens.

The Escarambrujo, located in the place of El Consejero, is a flour mill of the sixteenth century that has important waterworks that facilitated the taking of water through the acequia Alcalá, of Arab origin and dating from the thirteenth century.

It is surrounded by lush and exotic vegetation.

Therefore, and relating these two aspects, Gloria Martín has proposed its recovery for the creation of a botanical garden and an ethnographic museum and water nonexistent in the municipality in order that Lorca has a space that allows the understanding and interpretation Natural and historical heritage of an area closely linked to an "ancestral water culture".

"This place brings together values ​​of outstanding singularity, integrity and authenticity" from the ethnographic point of view, said Martín, who asked the municipal government team of the PP "to commit to the dissemination of the cultural tradition of Lorca and its architectural heritage And landscape "investing in its recovery and endowing it with an appropriate use.

Regarding the House of the Councilor, in the Parrilla deputation, Martín recalled that it is a 19th-century building, also in a situation of abandonment, which urgently requires the completion of consolidation works to prevent its serious deterioration .

Its degree of protection allows to reconcile the conservation of structural characteristics of the building with the replacement of parts without architectural interest by new design elements.

Martín considers that it is a suitable place to enable "a municipal rural hostel" that allows to rehabilitate the historical patrimony, to bet for the sustainable tourism and to generate wealth and employment of quality "from the public".

Source: IU-verdes Lorca