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The President of the Community, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, met today at the Palacio de San Esteban with representatives of the Institute of Secondary Education Alfonso X 'El Sabio', who thanked him for his mediation work so that this center was granted the Honor Card of the Civil Order Alfonso X 'El Sabio'.
The long history of this institute, which this course fulfills 180 years of service in the Region of Murcia, led the management of the center to make, through the president of the Community, a request for entry into this Civil Order to the Ministry of Education , Petition that was accepted.
During the meeting held today in the Palacio de San Esteban, the director of the institute, Rafael Marín, also informed President Pedro Antonio Sanchez of the celebration of the next Congress of Historical Institutes to be held in July 2017.
The IES Alfonso X 'The Wise' of Murcia is the third oldest institute of Spain.
In it they realized their studies personages of the Murcia society like Jose Echegaray (Prize Nobel of Literature in 1904) or Juan de la Cierva (inventor of the autogyro).
It has a historical library, with books dating back to the fifteenth, sixteenth or eighteenth centuries, some of which are being digitized thanks to the support of the Ministry of Education.
It also has 19th century physics apparatus.
Source: CARM
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