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José Ballesta thanked "the efforts of the more than 200 workers and volunteers who have made these floral monuments possible, who have been working all weekend in difficult conditions due to inclement weather."
To the 23 Spring Gardens we must add the floral arches installed in Santo Domingo, Santa Isabel, San Juan, La Aurora and Calle Basabé, as well as floral tributes to Murcia painters Almela Costa, Ballester, Luis Garay and Folch de Cardona in The Glorieta and Floridablanca.
The nerve centers of the city shine from today the beauty and joy of spring Murcia, embodied in 23 Spring Gardens that will beautify Murcia during all the holidays, through a million flowers, 750 kilos of vegetables and 300,000 plants of different varieties and colors.
More than 200 workers and volunteers are today giving the finishing touches to these floral monuments that will be completely finished tomorrow in the first hour, coinciding with the big day of Murcia.
José Ballesta thanked "the effort of these people who have made it possible and who have been working all weekend in difficult and complicated conditions, due to inclement weather."
To the 23 Spring Gardens we must add the floral arches installed in Santo Domingo, Santa Isabel, San Juan, La Aurora and Calle Basabé, as well as the floral tributes to Murcia painters Almela Costa (with 'Virgen de la Fuensanta'), Ballester (with 'Entierro de la Sardina') and Luis Garay (with 'Mujeres') in Glorieta de España;
and the painter Francisco Folch de Cardona (with 'Floridablaca, the shadow of the King'), in the Floridablanca Garden.
The symbology of the 23 Spring Gardens:
1. Circular Square: "The Gardens of the Wolf King".
Monteagudo and its most emblematic monument is moved to La Circular, with a large 360-degree orchard that embraces the 20-meter-high recreation of the Arab Castle of the 11th century, topped by the image of the Christ.
In this garden the fertility of the Huerta de Murcia has been captured with 135 trees (orange, lemon, palm, olive, mulberry, carob, pear and cypress), a total of 17,700 plants (geranium, mastic, ferns, jasmines, agaves, paleras, boxwood ...) and 2,000 palm leaves.
2. Santo Domingo: "Murcia Flourishes"
Red and white pots create a large canvas in one of the most emblematic squares of the city.
More than 600 pots adorned with geraniums that make up the words 'Primavera' and 'Murcia'.
3. The Silk: "Chupete Tree"
This initiative is part of the municipal strategy Murcia Ciudad Amiga de la Infancia de UNICEF.
It promotes among the little ones the respect for the trees, the nature and the environment, besides providing an original space in which the little ones can leave behind the habit of the pacifier.
4. Santa Isabel: "My lemon half and my naranjica half"
It is a nod to our garden.
Both for lovers and for those who have not yet found their half lemon or half orange, in this bank they can take a picture.
It is an action of #streetartprimavera.
5. Plaza de la Cruz: "The Garden of the Cross"
Thousands of plants bloom in a setting of stone and marble.
The miracle of spring embraces the Cross that, in just a few days, will be completely dressed in flowers to celebrate Mayos.
6. University Square: "Allegory to the 40th Anniversary Transfer"
The fertility of the land of Murcia is manifested in an explosion of life, through 14 taps from which emanate vegetables and citrus fruits, thus doing a tribute to the water that waters our garden.
7. Plaza de Europa: "#Murcia enPrimavera"
A total of 18 letters in the shape of a U, embrace and welcome Murcia and visitors, making them participants in the station that best represents the character of the people of Murcia.
8. Malecón: "Exaltación Huertana"
Cover that receives the passersby who visit this space huertano where flavors, smells, colors and typical folklore are combined in this week of Spring Festival.
9. Plaza Belluga: "Los Claveles del Moneo" and "Barroca Spring"
The Moneo dresses in color with more than 1,000 carnations adorning it to receive the patron saint of Murcia, the Virgen de la Fuensanta.
Spring will also invade the balconies of the Bishopric.
10. Glorieta de España: "Murcia Renace"
The rebirth of Murcian spring, its aromas and colors in the heart of Murcia.
11. Puente de Hierro: "Vertical Garden Murcia River"
The Murcia River project also celebrates spring.
The Iron Bridge dresses as a flower, forming the name of this project with letters 2.5 meters high on both sides of the bridge.
12. Floridablanda Garden: "La Alegría de la Huerta"
The representations of fruits, vegetables and vegetables take center stage in Floridablanca, forming a work of art, an explosion of color, textures, smells, ... And they do it in a big way;
surprising
13. Plaza de la Opinión: "The Garden of the Butterflies"
More than 5,000 flowers (calamchoes) decorate these vertical gardens, an allegory to our spring of light and color, with 4 giant butterflies over 3 meters high and 4 meters in span.
14. Calle Basabé: "El Patio de Basabé"
In the central street Basabé grows an orchard.
Trees and plants on a wooden base that rotates, advances and bends to create spaces of rest, of encounter.
The rest that nature offers us in the center of the city.
15. José Esteve Mora Square: "Homenaje Huertano"
"... and in the branches of the orange tree flow flowers in its path, huertanica of my love ..." says the Song to Murcia.
That spirit is what is embodied in this intervention that combines tradition and modernity, with the silhouettes of a couple of huertanos.
She wears a refajo that is a mosaic of flowers.
16. Plaza del Romea: "Colors in movement"
The flowers and color take over the square: a giant flower 9 meters high, adorned, in turn, by thousands of flowers.
17. Avenida Libertad: "The Vegetable Dome"
A structure made up of vegetation and reeds that will host workshops and activities.
For this action, about 3,000 canes collected from the Segura River have been used, according to the protocol for the elimination of invasive species.
18. St. Augustine Square: "Arborium"
An "urban forest" for the stay through trees that combine the metal structure with plant elements and shade.
19. Trapería y Platería: "Rain of Flowers"
Trapería and Platería are covered with floral awnings for which 6.520 packages of Statice limonium of different colors have been used, covering 490 meters of street in total.
20. Sobejano Painter: "Plants in Motion"
Murcia receives its visitors with 14 structures of 1.70 high by 5 meters long, with 12,000 units of Kalanchoes of different colors and 2,100 geraniums in the bases.
21. Gran Vía: "Las Flores del Salzillo"
Spring comes full of light and color and can be contemplated in Gran Vía Escultor Francisco Salzillo.
22. Garden of the Source: "Huertanas"
An orchard made with steel sheet and a refax of flowers and ornaments, which allow its vision from many points leading the garden to different parts of the city.
23. San Esteban: "Mozarabic Garden.
The dancers of San Esteban "
This action is the prelude to the exhibition that will house the interior of the Palacio de San Esteban.
Some dancers welcome visitors and welcome the show.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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