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The works executed in these viewpoints include the installation of informative signage, incorporation of urban furniture, installation of bollards, gardening improvements, irrigation system, lighting, demolition and renovation of the firm, construction of new walls to guarantee stability, incorporation of elements locksmith (we passed, railings ....), installation of placated, paving, as well as street lamps, bins and banks, among other elements.
The Local Development Councilor in the City of Lorca, Sandra Martinez, has supervised this morning the work being carried out by this municipal area to improve a battery of viewpoints located mainly in the upper neighborhoods of our city.
This is a task that has been carried out by the beneficiaries and students of different training and employment workshops of the Municipal Executive, with the ultimate goal of establishing a route of viewpoints that can be visited by both Lorca and they visit us.
We are talking about recovering and taking advantage of a series of viewpoints, which over time had several deficiencies.
Once corrected, we bet to put them in value, incorporating them to the urban patrimony of Lorca as an additional incentive for this area of ​​the city.
Sandra Martinez explained that the work executed in these lookouts include the installation of informative signage so that all people can identify the enclave and its name, as well as incorporation of street furniture, installation of bollards, gardening improvements, irrigation system, lighting , demolition and renovation of the pavement, construction of new walls to guarantee stability, incorporation of elements of locksmith (we passed, railings ....), installation of cladding, paving, as well as street lamps, litter bins and banks, among other elements.
This line of work, which includes the development of social programs, improvement of the environment and education, is a necessary impulse for this area to enhance its urban quality and is managing to recover authentic gems of our historical heritage as is the case of the churches of San Roque, Santa María and San Pedro, among other enclaves of notorious relevance, in addition to achieving the improvement of almost a hundred streets located in the upper neighborhoods of our city.
The itinerary, which will be disseminated through printed informative leaflets and available on the municipal website, links a succession of viewpoints and squares both during the ascent and descent of the Church of San Juan, and in the lower part of the historic center.
During the tour we can enjoy different perspectives of the city, being able to observe from several points of view the whole of this and its surroundings, of its most representative urban and architectural landmarks.
Throughout the tour you will go through centuries of history, from the old fortified city to the contemporary Lorca.
The tour includes the following visits:
Former Convent of La Merced and Almohade Wall: point of departure and end, it is an enclave characterized by the old Convent of La Merced, and by a stretch of the Almohad wall dating from the twelfth century.
The convent contains elements from the 16th and 18th centuries, as well as a recent intervention from the beginning of the current one.
In this set we can also find the Visitor Center of Lorca Taller del Tiempo, an enclave that offers a large parking lot that can be very practical for us to park our vehicle and make the journey on foot.
Porch of San Antonio: built in ashlar masonry in the S.XIII.
It was raised on a smaller front door, from the Almohad period.
It is the only medieval door in the shape of a bend (defensive form typically Andalusian) that is preserved in the Region of Murcia.
Ascent to San Juan: it is done through some stretches of recently executed sceneries, from which we can see the course of Guadalentín and the northern neighborhoods, the Serrata area, the deputations of Barranco Hondo, Rio and Parrilla, and the mountains of La Torrecilla and the Giant.
Church of San Juan: as the final point of the ascending route, we come to the set formed by the Church of San Juan and the wide stone esplanade located to the northwest of it.
It is a space that is developed in the shelter of the church, and that directs our gaze towards the mountainous areas and councils located northwest of the city, showing us at a glance a portion of what is the vast territory of the municipality.
Atrium of San Juan: beginning of the descent, we find a small viewpoint that offers us a wide view of the churches of Santiago and San Mateo, of their urban context.
and the countryside of Lorca, from the Virgen de las Huertas to the Sierra de la Almenara, which acts as a backdrop.
Then we find the Glorieta Atrio de San Juan, a place of leisure where to stop to talk and rest.
Descent to San Patricio: we cross the Barrio de San Juan, finding the viewpoints located in Calle Hoyos and a succession of landscaped spaces between San Jorge and Gomélez streets, to end in a small square on Calle Zapatería.
This square is developed in close relationship with an old teaching building erected in the nineteenth century.
In the course of this traditional street our steps will take us to discover the College of the Mercedarian Mothers and the facade of its chapel, built in the middle of the eighteenth century in Baroque style.
Calle Abad de los Arcos: we located the main façade of the Narciso Yepes Conservatory, which dates back to the last quarter of the 18th century, straddling the Rococo and Neoclassical styles.
We passed next to the terraced square of the Choirs and Dances of Lorca and the Plaza del Cardenal Belluga, where the food market was located from 1791 to 1860, sheltered by the Collegiate Church of San Patricio.
The arcade that we find in it is a modern reconstruction of the original element that occupied it at that time.
Old jail, Edificio del Pósito and Torre Almohade: we skirted the Old Jail, built in the eighteenth century under the reign of Carlos III, and the building of the Pósito, original of the XVI century.
We locate the Almohad tower of S. XII, arriving in the first place to its access space, a viewpoint at the corner of Rojano and Pósito streets, oriented towards the Church and the San Pedro neighborhood.
We descend the stone staircase, arriving at a small square that offers us a view of the tower in its maximum vertical dimension, from a position formerly outside the walls.
Plaza del Caño: old tradition, takes its name from pipes that were housed in it, thanks to which the population was supplied with drinking water.
The square is located in front of the court building, the place of the former Casa del Corregidor, next to the old Pósito building.
The cover of San Patricio completes the view of the square that preserves the original spatiality of its Renaissance architecture, originally from the 16th century.
Plaza de España: Renaissance enclave par excellence, is bounded by the Collegiate Church of San Patricio and the City Council, which give it a special charm due to its excellent architecture.
The Collegiate Church was built between 1533 and 1780, and the City Hall between 1676 and 1740. The image is completed by the facades of old period houses, offering a direct view of how Lorca was centuries ago.
Throughout the year it hosts cultural and religious events of different types, and on a daily basis it is presented as a place to stay and enjoy the hotel trade, contemplating a set of milestones in the architectural and urban history of the city.
Calle de la Cava: very traditional way in Lorca, we discover the small Plaza de Simón Mellado, dominated by the architectural ensemble of the Narciso Yepes Conservatory.
Part of the building sits on another tower of the Almohad wall, clearly differentiated from the rest of the building erected at the end of the eighteenth century.
Plaza de Santiago: open area at the doors of the Church of Santiago from which to enjoy its Baroque style façade.
The residential buildings of the time and its trees complete the staging of a traditional urban space more than the city.
Roundabout of San Vicente: created in the S.XIX, it houses the Column Miliaria of Roman times, which marked the distance to Rome from this point of the Via Augusta, and we can also locate the Casa de los Guevara.
The roundabout is a place full of life, due to its insertion in the urban fabric of Lorca and its landscape characteristics, the game between the pavement and the trees that nourish it.
Calle Santo Domingo: final stretch of the route, first we find the Plaza Saavedra, next to the adjacent Church of Santo Domingo, which was built in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Further on we reach the Don Juan Moreno Square where the Archaeological Museum is located, an original building from the 17th century, together with other old residential buildings, such as the Casa de los Mula, from the 18th century.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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