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The exhibition, inaugurated this morning by the Mayor, will remain open until 30 June, with daily guided tours.
Ballesta: "It is a unique opportunity to better understand what road has Murcia route to get where we are now and to outline what can we lie ahead."
The evolution of the city, from the creation of the Council for Alfonso X, the May 14, 1266, until 2016, through the original documents preserved in the Municipal Archives, is the content of the exhibition until 30 Almudí next June houses the Palace.
Curated by Professor Isabel Garcia Diaz and municipal archivist, Maria Angeles Jover Carrion, the exhibition "Council of Murcia 1266-2016" is a must to get a broad view of the changes in the city over the last 750 years.
The exhibition that opened today by the Mayor, José Ballesta, accompanied by the Councillor for Employment, Tourism and Culture, Jesus Pacheco, meets the written testimony of much of the history of the council of Murcia from the Privilege shot of Alfonso X, cornerstone and that gives meaning to this celebration, as well as other historical texts Wise King.
"A historical tour of the activity of the City of Murcia since its founding ending with the charter of the current Municipal Corporation" stressed Ballesta, so "this exhibition represents a unique opportunity to better understand our history, remember what road we have traveled to get where we are now and to outline what can bring us the future. "
Thus, the exhibition will show the evolution from medieval Murcia, a city of Muslim design, with narrow streets and dashed to pieces adapted to Christian customs, when some streets widened and mosques became churches-, with Santa Maria as main religious center and the Plaza de Santa Catalina as an administrative and political center.
One of the most interesting works how many can be seen in the sample is the Book of Distribution, with information about the early Christians who settled in the city- as well as an extensive collection of original letters and copied in cartularies, along with Chapter Acts series and books Butler, which are the oldest preserved in the Crown of Castile.
Population census
A copy of the Codex of Law I judge, from which an original copy of the thirteenth century is preserved, it was brought to Murcia by a commission that the Council moved to Seville.
The exhibition will also permit the records Hidalguía, where often artistic family trees included, as in the case of Floridablanca and related population census, including the Register of Hidalgos documents, the Register of Moriscos, of 1583, the standards of fanfare, Gypsies and foreigners.
Also included documentation related to singular buildings in the city, especially the Granary and contrast, currently the Almudí and a landmark building in the Plaza de Santa Catalina which was demolished early last century.
Ordinances and Council Huerta Good Men
On 23 June 1849 the City Council approved the Ordinances for the Regime and Government of the Huerta de Murcia, divided into 17 chapters and which is regulated for the first time the Council of Wise Men, composition and functions.
In the coming weeks, in the Almudí Palace you may also deepen the emergence of civil public buildings such as the Institute of Secondary Education, the Normal School, the Asylum and Romea Theater, as well as the reform of the Plaza Camachos, Alameda del Carmen and Garden Floridablanca, coinciding with the opening of the railway in 1862.
The route of exposure for the last 750 years does not end without reflecting the urban transformation in the second half of the last century with the opening of the Gran Vía and the emergence of new neighborhoods such as Santa Maria de Gracia, Vistabella, Barriomar, La Paz or Infante Juan Manuel, and more modern buildings and new bridges over the Segura, the City Hall Annex building or the building that houses the Department of Planning in Abenarabi.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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