The Ministry of Culture is systematically rejected all requests HUERMUR is presenting numerous to catalog and protect historical elements of the garden, which currently have no protection whatsoever
The Association has appealed on appeal denials and does not rule out legal action to enforce the law and prevent future similar actions more Culture
The Association for the Conservation of Huerta de Murcia (HUERMUR), within the activities of the 'PatrimurSOS Plan' has made numerous requests for cataloging scattered historical elements throughout the garden of Murcia, applications accompanied by multiple historical documents, reviews, photographs, drawings and writings attest to the historical and cultural values ​​of the elements to be protected.
Among these elements we can find aqueducts, bridges, centenarians shots historic canals, construction of irrigation, and many more items dating from the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries and that are currently unprotected and without any legal cover, as can be the Aqueduct Merry S. XVII-XVIII in Javalí Viejo, Canal Torres del S. XVIII in Aljucer, the Tower Bridge of Tudela, making the drain of the Herrera, etc.
Given the substantial applications HUERMUR in the Ministry of Culture for the protection and cataloging of this rich and varied murciano heritage, the General Director of Cultural Heritage, Maria Comas Gabarrón, is refusing to give the procedure provided by law, not by making appropriate in-depth study, and denying the values ​​without opening the relevant mandatory records on these cultural assets, using a very unethically about reports by its services, partial, full of vague, ambiguous statements, contradictions and completely lacking in rigor, that They do not study all good and its features.
Reports that the conservation association can not come to understand, considering that in other municipalities of the Region of Murcia, as Abarán, Cieza, etc., are being cataloged and protecting the maximum number of network elements and traditional irrigation ditches without putting so many obstacles devoid of reason as in the case of the Huerta de Murcia, which shows total disregard and discrimination against the historical elements of the vegetable gardens and orchards.
All this has led to the HUERMUR Association to appeal in denials issued by the Director General, for "consider unfair, not adjusted to law, totally disproportionate and lacking in rigor".
Therefore announces that "does not rule out legal action to enforce existing legislation and avoid making action by the Council as these, and only harm the heritage of Murcia", they say from the association.
From HUERMUR sound the alarm at the direction being taken by the Ministry of Culture recently as a historical heritage of Murcia is concerned, "we are finding more and more at a closed, obscurantist and rejecting attitude of all proposed HUERMUR preventing the end of an effective and real protection of the heritage of Murcia and progress for the region of Murcia garden ", also they said that" this attitude of Culture leads us to believe that the leaders of this regional body may be upset, because this association is doing a work of defense, protection and conservation of heritage is supposed that they should be made and not made, despite charging for it. "
On the other hand, it appears that this lack of interest in the effective protection of heritage murciano may be due to conflicts with urban and speculative interests, as many of these elements are found in urban actions to develop in the future.
From HUERMUR expected from the Ministry of Culture greater respect for citizen participation, which must be treated with greater rigor from this department, to exercise a free and effective way, without remain torpedoed every initiative that puts on going.
The company expects Arroyo dependent departments take note of the initiatives of other regional bodies, which are dedicated to spreading the culture of participation as from Culture and obstacles continue to hinder the public defense of the historical heritage of the garden.
Finally, HUERMUR sends a message to murciano consistory, indicating his alderman, who for many plans orchard and extensive projects for Murcia have thought, if your partner the Ministry of Culture, the Minister Noelia Arroyo of the same political color the mayor of Murcia, is dedicated to prevent protect and preserve these historic elements of the garden of Murcia and its network of traditional irrigation, soon will be able to Murcia to develop its tourism potential and be an example of restoration and protection the historical heritage.
HUERMUR reminds Murcia leaders that the historical and cultural heritage of Murcia are the roots of Murcia and is not just a legacy of our ancestors but borrow it from our children, and therefore we have the commitment, obligation and responsibility transfer to future generations at least in the best of what we have received.
Therefore, HUERMUR expects the Minister of Culture rectify and remedy the deficiencies he has committed, declaring the documentation and protection of the historic elements of the garden that HUERMUR requested.
Source: HUERMUR