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El Carmen neighborhood is the first public garden in Spain.
This pioneering initiative of the Royal Academy Alfonso X El Sabio and the City Council will allow Murcians to discover the origin and emblematic figures that are exhibited in this space created in the mid-nineteenth century.
The City of Murcia and the Royal Academy Alfonso X El Sabio have joined in a pioneering initiative: to offer the first historical guided visits to public spaces and emblematic monuments of the municipality.
Tomorrow, Wednesday, at 12.30, the first will take place, which will be attended by the mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, and will be borne by Loreto López, art historian and restorer, editor of the restoration project of the Monumento al Conde de Floridablanca and Academician of the RAAX, as well as the writer and general secretary of the Academy, Santiago Delgado.
The RAAX begins a series of short publications about the most important public spaces in the city of Murcia.
The Murcian institution, which next year will celebrate its 80th anniversary, will contribute its scientific rigor and methodology, with a study of the documentary sources that inform about the public space object of the publication, in all its aspects: origin, construction and stages, characters involved, etc.
These publications may serve as guidance to the professional guides of the city.
In fact, from the Academy stress that "it is to offer work materials to professional guides, not to compete with them."
The project contemplates making an initial initial visit and facilitating the research work carried out to help the sector.
Sculptural Heritage Recovery Plan
The City Council has in place a Sculptural Recovery Plan that aims to highlight the sculptures, busts and various monuments that make up the municipal sculptural heritage.
The restoration of the statue of the Count of Floridablanca, whose figure was created by Santiago Baglietto and Gierra, will soon be undertaken, while its base corresponds to Francisco Bolarín (he created it for the monument to Fernando VII that was destroyed in the First Carlist War).
After its restoration, a guided tour will be carried out again.
Among the elements with historical and monumental value that will be covered in the guided tour and that includes the brochure highlights the facade of the old slaughterhouse (1742-48), located at the north entrance of the Garden;
the bust of the poet José Selgas (José Planes Peñalver, 1922);
the bust of the poet Pedro Jara Carrillo (also by José Planes Peñalver, 1933);
the bust of Antonio Garrigós (by José Molera, 1984);
the monument to Nazareno Colorao (Of Manuel Nicolás Almansa, 2000
The Malecón and Santo Domingo, following visits
The Floridablanca Garden, declared BIC, is considered the first known public garden in Spain.
Its germ goes back to a small mall dating from 1634, although it was in 1847 when the mayor of Murcia, Salvador Marín Baldo, commissioned the municipal architect, Santos Ibáñez, to extend the stone bridge and reform the mall or garden, remembering in a municipal Plenary building a monument to D. José Moñino, Count of Floridablanca.
After this pioneering experience, the Royal Academy Alfonso X plans to make new brochures and guided visits to other emblematic spaces of the municipality, such as the Malecón de Murcia, the Plaza de Santo Domingo, the Paseo Alfonso X, the Ruiz Hidalgo Park and later refurbishment , the itinerary that goes from the Puente Viejo to the Auditorium, or the municipal collector and sewage treatment plant.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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