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One of the concerns that troubled the residents of Alquerías ends.
The understanding between the Bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena, the Foundation and the City CajaMurcia guarantees the preservation of the Parish of St. John the Baptist "by the imminent restoration.
This has been signed with his signature this morning the bishop, José Manuel Lorca, the President of the Foundation CajaMurcia, Carlos Egea, and the Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, at a ceremony held in the presence of the Councillor for Culture, Fátima Barnuevo, the Pastor Ramon Miñarro, and the president of the Municipal Board of Stables, Francisco Zamora.
The works completed by the end of 2013 and may start imminently.
The total cost of rehabilitation is 1 million euros.
To finance it, the City will provide 240,000 euros, 433,000 euros and 100,000 euros Bishopric CajaMurcia Foundation.
The remaining 226,000 euros will be paid by the Bishop, owner of the church.
The Mayor has also advanced the interests of the Autonomous Community of collaborating with their resources, through the Ministry of Culture, in the year 2011.
La Parroquia de San Juan Bautista has been closed since November 2008, when from Urban proceeded to order its closure because of the risk of debris that had, which forced the closure of the main alcove of the vestry.
Since then, the hamlet of Alquerías was left without any church where they make their celebrations.
La Ermita de Nuestra Señora de la Oliva, recently renovated, replaced the parish for certain ceremonies.
In other cases, we opted for the parish hall or the school hall annex.
To focus on the artistic heritage
The agreement signed today is a response to the commitment of the Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, to recover a church very much appreciated by the residents of Stables, who claimed his settlement.
It thus satisfies a demand of the inhabitants of the hamlet, concerned about the closure of the parish.
The desire to preserve and rehabilitate the historic and artistic heritage of neighborhoods and districts has been a policy pursued by the mayor, Miguel Angel House, which has meant that in the last decade, the City Council allocated more than 3.9 billion euros finance work to restore churches and chapels in the municipality.
Under this policy, we have consolidated our heritage Murcia with repairs carried out in the clear, the Cathedral, the churches of San Miguel and Santo Domingo, while the neighboring districts have witnessed the rehabilitation of the shrines of Monteagudo and Espinardo or New Javalí parish, among others.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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