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The exhibition, inaugurated today by the Mayor, will remain open until 30 October.

Portraits, photographs, sculptures and other objects representing allow better understanding of the Council of Murcia, which this year commemorates 750th anniversary

The story of jurisdiction, since his arrival in the city of Murcia to the present, represented by the characters, symbolic elements and news that have been involved with it, is the main argument on which organized the exhibition "The Charter I judge.

Effectiveness and Permanence "which can be visited at the Museum of the City until 30 October.

This is one of the activities planned for the 750th anniversary of the Council, as it was in 1266 when Murcia received a privilege of King Alfonso X granting the Charter of Seville which founded the city council.

the Christian Council joined the Crown of Castile was founded, and not the city of Murcia, since it was founded four centuries ago by Abderramán II, and under Muslim power developed reaching great importance as a military and administrative capital of the Cora Tudmir and subsequent Taifa Kingdoms.

In 1288 Murcia aldermen sent to Seville who had to copy, add necessary to adapt it to the needs of our council and eventually bring Murcia a copy of the Book of Law I judge, a compendium of Visigothic laws that will be the basis for organizing, govern and manage this Council and its vast territory.

Today is preserved virtually intact, except for the covers and some pages in the Municipal Archives of Murcia.

In 1751 Fernando VI asked the Murcian Council to allow the transfer of the codex to the Cathedral of Toledo for a compendium of Spanish law.

The book does not return to Murcia for unknown reasons reappearing in 1785 when the Count of Floridablanca delivers it to the Royal Spanish Academy, an institution that keeps it until 1916, despite having been claimed by the city of Murcia in 1833, 1877 and 1903.

Avatars and vicissitudes

The exhibition that opened today by the Mayor, José Ballesta, at the Museum of the City, narrates the vicissitudes, adventures and vicissitudes that have marked the Book of Law I judge, accompanied by other characters who played a role in this story, objects and abstract entities that emerged.

Although not physically present in this exhibition, yes the story of a symbol and other objects and works of art that speak of that is counted.

Portraits, photographs, sculptures and other representative objects are used to promote an approach to the history of this municipal institution.

It is historical portraits, painted in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, recreations of figures who lived long before these works saw the light, whose purpose is to illustrate the past, recover to enlarge it.

Including Wise King and the Count of Floridablanca, in addition to official portraits of characters who posed directly to the painter, who represented them with own signs of his position in the power of the age or social position.

This is the case of Juan de la Cierva Peñafiel, Jose Martinez Tornel and Andrés Baquero Almansa.

You can also see photographic portraits and sculptures representing people, paintings and allegorical sculptures, historical recreations of royal power, capitulation of those who wielded lost power, the city, the rising river, all that gives meaning to creation of the Council.

Among the exposed symbolic elements highlights the Seal Concejil, made of wood in 1966 in commemoration of the seven hundredth anniversary of its concession and playback press releases along with other narratives.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia