The non-legislative proposal that has been presented this morning at the Culture Committee of Congress has gone ahead with the support of all groups.
The Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, said that the endorsement this morning by all the members of the Culture Committee of the Congress of Deputies to the non-legislative proposal in support of the statement as Well Intangible lorquino embroidery Humanity by the UNESCO, is a determinant for achieving the common goal of all Lorca advance.
We're talking about a historic landmark, a tool to keep working and taking steps to achieve our challenge.
Francisco Jodar thanked this morning to all the parliamentary groups of the House of Representatives who voted in the Committee on Culture unanimously to form the initiative presented by the Popular Parliamentary Group for which the Government of Spain urges that prior approval by the Heritage Council and its Working Group on World Heritage and intangible, support and defend them in the appropriate international fora, the registration of the application of embroidery in Lorca and its staging in biblical processions on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
Jódar stresses that "this proposition of law is given a major boost to the candidacy lorquina, because this way is shown to be the representatives of the Spanish people who value this rich historical heritage must achieve this award."
The President of the Congress supports the candidacy lorquina
Lorca The mayor also thanked the President of the Congress of Deputies, Jesús Posada, who received the delegation lorquina has moved to support the parliamentary initiative, which has transmitted a message of encouragement along the way.
The most prominent and most artistic embroidered works can be seen all year in the Museums of Hats are there in the city.
In them, you can see and appreciate the rich heritage that has been built up to the guilds over time, allowing to approach the history of Biblical scrolls Lorca.
It is an art that survives thanks to the different brotherhoods workshops as well as individual workshops embroider even other cities.
It is a specialized collective work that requires lengthy creative process, art directors, authors responsible for the design and supervision of works, and embroidery involved, who bear the painstaking process of implementing each of the parts which can last years.
Is said and much more, so the guilds that make Easter Lorca, in collaboration with the City Council, have joined the association "The Art of Embroidery in Lorca and staging parades Bible- passion. "
In order to work towards the tradition of embroidery Lorca as a Cultural and that the art of embroidery in Lorca part of the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity at UNESCO.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca