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Francisco Garcia stressed that the demolition was carried out after solving the problems that have dragged this performance since 2001

The Town Planning of the City of Lorca, Francisco Garcia, has announced that tomorrow, Saturday 14 November, will begin the demolition of the building located in the plaza de la Merced and clogging the vision of the medieval city wall.

The work will last for five days, although it intends to carry out the bulk of the demolition over the weekend, aiming for the same cause as little damage as possible to the neighbors and interfering as little as the daily tasks of citizens using the square to park their vehicles and users of the road that runs along the facade of the building.

The demolition culminates a long process that began with the expropriation of the whole complex of buildings and properties that exist and the Planning Department began in 2001 and culminated in 2007 with the expropriation process to demolish the building.

The space it now occupies the building that is going to demolish it possible to obtain an area vital to enhancing the performance of the recovery of the wall, improvement of the Visitors Center Lorca Taller del Tiempo and substantial progress in the overall development of the tourism project and restore the environment of a Historical

Garcia stressed that "the demolition will improve the visual from the Old Bridge, there is the side of the castle, there fore the Merced Complex, then the long stretch of medieval wall, which will depend on a complete restoration and value and ending the spectacular view of San Juan Church with its wonderful atrium.

A visual that until now we were interrupted by the buildings that are subject to demolition.

The demolition will allow tourists to reach the Visitor Center Lorca Taller del Tiempo can look at a first glance, much of the historical and artistic heritage that the City of Lorca has the medieval with the Porch Walls of San Antonio, Complex de la Merced, the Church of San Juan embraced by the neighborhood that bears his name and basically the slope of the Castillo and the Torre Alfonsina crowning this visual. "

The amount of expropriation value of the building has now reached € 1.805.1348 and the voluntary evacuation of the occupants has been possible thanks to a lengthy negotiation process that the Planning Department has had with the homeowners for several months.

For its part, the demolition project, written by local technicians, has a budget of € 28,652 and execution will be carried out by a company Lorca.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca