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The visitor center La Muralla, dependent of the Department of Employment, Tourism and Culture, celebrates its tenth anniversary with a special program
Thus, from 28 March to 1 April will open its doors uninterrupted from 10 to 20 hours while next Saturday 25 March, from 10.30 to 13.30 hours, there will be a children's party in which the little ones can paint their Own greeting card.
Children between the ages of 4 and 12 can attend.
The workshop is free but the participants will have to bring their own material to make the drawings.
The center hosts a section of the medieval walls of Murcia in which it is possible to appreciate the evolution that over the centuries experienced the urban defenses.
In these transformations and adaptations of the wall to the needs of the city is summarized the history of Murcia: its foundation in the s.
IX, its development in the s.
XII, the Castilian conquest in the mid-s.
XIII, its frontier character during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and finally the disappearance of defensive needs after the union of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon and the conquest of the Nasrid sultanate of Granada at the end of the s.
XV, its decay and disuse in later centuries and its rehabilitation as an urban element in the late s.
XX.
The Center is located on an open excavation in the Plaza de Santa Eulalia next to the Ermita de San José.
In this excavation, of about 110 m2, remains of the Arab wall of the s.
XII, on which during the s.
XV was built a new wall coinciding at this point with the access tower.
The Center consists of several rooms in which virtually daily life is recreated in medieval Murcia.
Through a guided tour and through plasma screens, infographics and models the visitor can go back centuries in time to know the evolution of the wall from the Islamic to the Christian era.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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