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| Archaeological works are expected to resume in late September | The councilor for Culture and Heritage Recovery, Jesús Pacheco, and the director of excavations in San Esteban, visited this morning the site where pergolas are being installed to protect the work carried out there.Jesús Pacheco has indicated that "San Esteban allows us to establish a dialogue between Murcians of the 21st century and our ancestors from the medieval period.
From the Government Team we work to protect our heritage and recover our past and our history and we are convinced that this performance will be a powerful tourist attraction of our municipality.
""The recovery of San Esteban is one of the most innovative and avant-garde projects that the history of this city has known and has three fundamental characteristics: it is comprehensive, it has a Master Plan and it watches over social and neighborhood integration, through consensus and participation ", explained Rebeca Pérez.In this way, this week four pergolas will be placed, of 32 square meters each, with which it is intended to protect the works that are carried out there from possible rains while providing a cover that will shade archaeologistsThese facilities are made of aluminum, so that they are easily portable and have a waterproof cover and six telescopic supports to seat them in irregular areas.This initiative arises from an agreement with the Autonomous Community and has the approval of the team of archaeologists from the University of Murcia.Excavations will return after summerCouncilwoman Rebeca Pérez explained that "the extension of the agreement with the University of Murcia ended last March and, due to the confinement, some laboratory work could not be carried out to finish the studies."Once the agreement is renewed, archaeologists will begin work again expectedly at the end of next September.These tasks will consist of completing some points of enclosure 1 and 2, which correspond to the funduq, a building and the maqbara, and to start a new area corresponding to shops.The recovery of San Esteban is part of the comprehensive 'Medieval Murcia' project, an action plan that will allow you to stroll down a 12th-century street at ground level below the San Esteban site.In San Esteban a project has been developed that makes the recovery of the square compatible, as a space for recreation and coexistence for Murcians, and the enhancement of the Arab ruins, which will allow us to contemplate what Murcia was like in the 12th and 13th centuries , observe their homes and public spaces, as well as the utensils that Murcians used in their daily lives 800 years ago.Medieval MurciaThis intervention joins the battery of actions of the comprehensive project 'Medieval Murcia', an action plan that will allow, in addition to walking along a 12th-century street at ground level below the San Esteban site, to stroll among the canvases of the wall that surrounded the city in Santa Eulalia; know the castles and defensive fortifications of the city in Monteagudo, walk through a medieval palace in Santa Clara and take a pedagogical and tourist tour that recalls the figure of the Wise King, Jaime I and the Wolf King, after the remodeling of the Alfonso X promenade.'Murcia Medieval' is a comprehensive project for the transformation of the city in the short, medium and long term, which recovers the medieval identity of Murcia - a substantial part of our roots as a town - and which offers a new model of cultural, archaeological and historical tourism
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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