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The Mayor and councilors of the Municipal Corporation attend the tribute to the Baroque architect, who was also the author of some of the most significant and beloved by murcianos works: the completion of the Puente de los Peligros, the altarpiece of La Merced or hornacina Central Sanctuary Fuensanta
The Mayor, José Ballesta, and councilors of the Municipal Corporation have attended this afternoon the homage of the city of Murcia Baroque architect and sculptor Jaime Bort and Meliá.
From today, Murcia and recognizes the figure of this castellonense, who developed much of his creative work in Murcia, where he has signed some of the most unique buildings, and which gives its name to a street in the fleet, very close to the Garden of three Cups.
During the ceremony, Mayor, José Ballesta, stressed the "uniqueness and success that accompany the figure of this great architect, whose name is linked to some of the most unique elements of our heritage, why always occupy a prominent place in memory of Murcia. "
The unveiling of the plaque in the Plaza Belluga fulfills the commitment made by the Mayor with the Cultural Association Jaime Bort, and allows honor and recognize who is responsible for one of the treasures that make up the historic cast of the city: the imafronte of Cathedral.
Another of the most iconic, distinctive and beloved symbols of the city, the Old Bridge or hazards, also bears the signature of Bort.
Construction, which just turned 275 years old, joined the old walled city and the current Carmen neighborhood, then district of San Benito, forming part of a necessary urban program and promoted by then mayor, Antonio Heredia Bazan, part of a plan to avoid overflows Segura.
Jaime Bort was hired to finish the bridge, after the death of Toribio Martinez de la Vega.
A third major project for Murcia was urban.
In this case, which today is known as Plaza Camachos, which then had to be a place for bullfights.
Thus, the Council asked the architect a project that was intended not only to the square of shows, but housing construction in an area which was the expansion of the city.
His original project, more ambitious micho, was not carried out, and was replaced by a simple quadrangle.
The imprint of Jaime Bort and Meliá can also be seen in another treasure dearer by murcianos heritage: its intervention in the facade of the Sanctuary of the Fuensanta, tilling the central niche with the image of the Virgin flanked by San Patricio and San Fulgencio.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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