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The Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, and the Minister of Culture and Spokesman of the CARM, Noelia Arroyo, visited the Archaeological Museum in the city, which is in the final phase of the recovery process and allow reopen in autumn
The Mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, and the Minister of Culture, Noelia Arroyo, this morning visited the last phase of the recovery process of the Archaeological Museum, which is being addressed with funds from the Autonomous Community through the EIB loan, and which is just weeks from completion, allowing the Museum to reopen this fall.
Francisco Jodar explained that the Archaeology is a new example of how Lorca have made a virtue of necessity.
Not only they have repaired the damage caused by earthquakes in the Palace of the Salazar-Rosso, but has been used to launch a new museum project, within which we will have a new and better selection of pieces that allow visitors better understand the past of our town.
Thus, the museum now has more exhibition space, going to have 13 rooms facing the 11 rooms that made up the previous exhibition.
We also found very important for the best exhibition area for Jewry.
Now, the important Jewish legacy is found in the Castle leading player within the museum setting.
Similarly, security has been enhanced exponentially.
The Archaeological is now a much safer Museum, both for visitors and for pieces that feature exhibitors and seismic anchors to safeguard the materials exposed to any natural disaster.
Lorca Mayor stressed arrangements carried out at the door and on the facade, listed as BIC, which also affect the overall improvement developed.
Are being finalized recent work towards the imminent reopening of the archaeological museum will be a better exhibition space and will surprise even those who best knew this museum.
Jodar, finally, said that the cultural heritage of the city of Lorca will be fully recovered by the end of 2016. Currently, since there have been about 80 percent of the actions envisaged in the Master Plan for the Recovery of Cultural Heritage Lorca launched by the Government of the Region of Murcia, through the Ministry of Culture and Spokesperson, Ministry of Culture and the city of Lorca.
A project to full recovery of the historical and artistic city after the earthquake of May 11, 2011 and leave it better than it was.
In total, 56 buildings included in the Master Plan, and has already implemented 80 percent of the work planned;
a percentage that rises to 95 per cent for property declared of cultural interest.
The budget also funds the Master Plan EIB European Investment Bank amounting to more than 23.74 million euros and the investment that has already been paid more than 18.78 million euros.
Among the completed works include the recovery of the Church of Santiago, Palace Garden Ruano, the Convent of San Francisco Azul- Paso Museum and Santo Domingo Church and the Chapel of the Rosary Paso Blanco.
Similarly, among which they are now underway include the Collegiate Church of St. Patrick, the Church of St. Joseph Church of the Assumption, the House of Aragon, the San Francisco College, the Archaeological Museum and the Church of St. Diego.
Subsidy for Old archive
The Minister of Culture, meanwhile, explained that within the Master Plan for the Recovery of Cultural Heritage of Lorca, the Governing Council of the Autonomous Region Wednesday approved a new grant of more than 165,239 euros for the upcoming recovery of the building Old Municipal Archives of Lorca.
The actions undertaken in this sixteenth century building designed by Jeronimo Quijano consist strengthen and repair the cracks in wood and stone structure, check the tightness of the cover, humidity troubleshoot the monument, as well as performances coating, tiling and pavements.
Noelia Arroyo also has also stressed that the restoration of the Church of Santa Maria and its surroundings will begin in the first quarter of 2016. On this occasion, the Ministry of Development is to provide the 1.37 million euros for recovery of this Catholic church built between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries and which is linked to the Catalan Gothic style.
Once restored church, where even the pillars of the vault of the main altar and some arches preserved, the space will be converted desecrated a cultural space that will serve as an exhibition, but also have specific uses of religious character especially coinciding with Easter.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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