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José Ballesta: "The Royal Academy Alfonso X brings its scientific, analytical and methodological rigor, putting at the service of the city its academics, historians, rehabilitators and writers".
This pioneering initiative allows Murcians to discover the origin and the emblematic figures that are exhibited in this emblematic space of the Carmen neighborhood, created in the mid-nineteenth century.
A group of about 70 people attended today the first guided visit to the Garden of Floridablanca, the first public park in Spain, organized by the Royal Academy Alfonso X El Sabio, in collaboration with the City of Murcia.
This first visit is part of a pioneering initiative: the enhancement of public spaces and emblematic monuments of the municipality, through the publication of specialized guides by the RAAX, which will serve as a resource for the organization of new historical visits offered by the professional guides of the municipality.
The mayor José Ballesta said that "the Royal Academy brings its scientific, analytical and methodological rigor, putting at the service of the city its academics, historians, rehabilitators and writers".
It does this through the study of the documentary sources that inform about the public space object of the publication, in all its aspects: origin, construction and stages, involved characters, etc.
The visit was led by Loreto López, art historian and restorer, editor of the restoration project of the Monument to the Count of Floridablanca and Academician of the RAAX, as well as the writer and general secretary of the Academy, Santiago Delgado.
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).
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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