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More than 200 workers complete the work in the 16 Spring Gardens.
José Ballesta discovers the 'Homage to the Murcian Woman' by Antonio Campillo, on Avenida Libertad, a floral monument suspended in the air of 5.5 meters in height and 300 kilos in weight, which recreates the sculpture of the Murcian master with more than 2,500 bouquets of flowers and 12,500 stems.
The more than 200 workers of the City of Murcia are today giving the final touches to the 16 Spring Gardens, four floral arches and artistic works created with flowers in the various nerve centers of the city, which tomorrow will look florid and radiant to welcome the hundreds of thousands of people who will take to the streets to celebrate Bando de la Huerta.
The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, together with the Councilor for Modernization of Administration and Urban Development, José Guillén, visited today the works that are being finalized in the different public spaces of the city and discovered one of the most singular: 'El homage to the woman from Murcia 'by Antonio Campillo, who is already suspended on Avenida Libertad, a large floral work of 5.5 meters in height and 300 kilos in weight, which recreates the sculpture of the Murcian master with more than 2,500 branches of Siempre Viva and 12,500 stems
"It is a reinterpretation of this monumental work by this universal artist who, in each creation, expresses his love for the land of Murcia.
Tomorrow the arrival of spring can be lived in every corner of the city;
an exceptional reception for the hundreds of thousands of visitors and tourists who will accompany us to enjoy the great day of Murcia and our parties, "said the mayor today, adding that" Murcia's art and culture, as hallmarks of our land, will be a faithful reflection of the vitality of Murcia in the different corners of the city, creating a unique itinerary that can be traveled tomorrow by all the people who join us to live our Bando de la Huerta, a festival declared of International Tourist Interest ".
On Wednesday and Thursday, at 7:00 p.m., the groups of the Tunas Costa Cálida Contest will haunt the Murcian Woman together with the floral sculpture of Campillo.
Under the motto 'Spring begins in Murcia', the City Council has adorned the 16 Spring Gardens with 250,000 cut flowers and 200,000 flower plants and will recover, as in previous years, the tradition of floral arches in Santo Domingo, Santa Isabel, San Juan and the Aurora.
The balconies of the Town Hall and the Episcopal Palace have also been decorated.
List of the 16 Spring Gardens:
Glorieta de España: Limonero suspended and tribute to Mariano Ballester and Ramón Gaya
Taking as reference the century-old Japanese artisan technique of growing plants, it stands majestically in the heart of the city, one of the most representative elements of the Murcian garden: the lemon tree.
Suspended in the air, the 25-year-old specimen defies gravity by appearing to reach for the water that sustains it, swollen with fruit and orange blossom.
La Glorieta also hosts the tribute to the painter Mariano Ballester 'Huertanos', in which you can see represented his characteristic pair of huertanos and the tribute to Ramón Gaya, with the recreation of the famous cup of the Murcian master, with a couple of carnations inside .
Libertad Avenue: Homage to the Murcian woman
With his inimitable style, his unmistakable talent and the purity of his forms, the maestro Antonio Campillo expresses his love for the Murcian land that saw him born with this beautiful sculpture named "Tribute to the Murcian woman" reinterpreted for the occasion from a structure of great size, covered with flowers that give us a new and spectacular vision, by the format and color, of the work of such a masterful artist.
Circular Square: Alma de Huerta
La Huerta de Murcia are its people, its lands, its fruits.
La Noria, a legacy of the Muslim era, appears imposing in the huertano landscape as the great heart that pumps through water ditches and canals the water that gives life.
At your feet, terraces of lettuce, Swiss chard, onions or tomatoes, lemon, orange, mulberry or mandarin crops and hundreds of species of flowers and aromatic plants sprout with the care, care and dedication of expert hands.
The Huertanos, body and soul, bring out the best of our land to the rhythm that marks the heart of the Huerta: La Noria.
Plaza de Santo Domingo: Murcia in Spring
In the heart of the city, where the main roads of the center converge and the activity is maximum during the holidays, a homage is paid to the garden through a green wall made with metal structure in which flowers are housed in pots of Different colors with the word Murcia.
Belluga Square: Baroque Spring
The universal baroque facade of the Cathedral of Murcia is dressed in spring in honor of its Patroness.
Thousands of flowers and plants decorate this environment that come to shelter the great floral mantle of carnations that Murcia will give this afternoon in their offering to the Virgen de la Fuensanta.
Square of the Cross: Garden of the Cross
Thousands of plants bloom in a setting of stone and marble.
The miracle of spring embraces the Cross that, in barely a month, will wear flowers to celebrate Mayos.
Murcia is Huerta, it is Primavera, it is color, it is aroma, it is flavor.
Calle Basabé: Magic Orchard
The spring and with it flowers invade the heart of the city penetrating its most beautiful corners as it is the street Basabé.
Here is located this urban garden that opens and closes generating spaces of shade and clear for the realization of activities such as concerts, storytelling and workshops.
Esteve Mora Square: La Alegría de la Huerta
Known as the 'Huerta de Europa', the variety and quality of its products make it a work of art at any table.
Fruits, vegetables and vegetables take center stage in the middle of the city, forming a work of art, an explosion of color, textures, smells ... And they do it in a big way;
surprising, like a game.
It is the joy of the garden.
St. Augustine Square: Arborium
It is intended to create an "urban forest" understood as a space not only for observation but for the stay through trees that combine the metal structure with plant elements so that the plaza becomes a pleasant shadow space trying to penetrate the spring even in those corners devoid of natural vegetation.
Square of Europe: Huertanas
A square as central as Plaza Europa is given a note of color and huerta for which are installed two huertanas made of corten steel sheet and with a patchwork of flowers and ornaments, allowing your view from many points leading the garden to the different parts of the city ...
Entrance of the Malecón: La Parranda
"... and in the branches of the orange tree sprout flowers in their huertanic step of my love ..." says our most beloved hymn and that spirit is what we wanted to capture in this intervention combining tradition and modernity with a steel structure cut with the silhouettes of a pair of huertanos endowing the refajo of huertana of the color thanks to a mosaic of flowers.
Hospital Bridge: Spring Forest
A set of metal trees of the most representative species of our garden, adorned with thousands of flowers, stands on the bridge like a large urban forest.
University Square: Color Cyclogenesis
Spring comes loaded with light and color.
It spreads in every corner of the city like a bowl of abundance filled with thousands of plants.
Romea Theater: Floral Theater
In Murcia, any corner is susceptible to be transformed in spring.
Squares, corners, ... stairs.
The flowers and color take over the square, standing at the foot of the city's great cultural monument
Entrance of the Malecón: Homage to Molina Sánchez
The entrance of the Malecón will house the floral tribute to the painter José Antonio Molina Sánchez, with the detail of 'Siempre piensa'.
Map of San Francisco: Homage José María Párraga
In the Plano de San Francisco, one of the faces has been depicted with mastery by the painter José María Párraga.
Plaza Camachos: Homage to Pedro Picazo
In the Plaza Camachos you can visit the homage to Pedro Sánchez Picazo, with its 'painted' pink features on the flowerbeds.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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