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The piece has been placed the reading room of the center, which opened the Mayor House on Thursday.
The work, which symbolizes the reeds of the river Segura, was withdrawn when the building was demolished to build the Gateway Manterola.
The old windows, Muñoz Barberán painter's work, which adorned the facade of the late Rowing Club, will again shine in all its splendor from next Thursday.
The windows, which have been restored by the program was Murcia, were installed in the Reading Room of the library building of Santiago El Mayor, which is scheduled for Thursday, at 11.00 hours and will attend the Mayor Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, and Popular Culture Councilman, Rafael Gomez.
The construction of the Gateway Manterola precipitated the demolition of the former Rowing Club in February 1997.
Even then the controversy has arisen over the destruction of a huge mural of Muñoz Barberán, made of two different materials: glass and mosaic.
On that occasion, the painter authorized the removal of the part and the destruction of the ceramic.
However, the windows were stored for a long decade in a municipal warehouse.
The windows are abstract style and symbolized by the wall of the disappeared, the reeds of the river Segura.
In its day, the owner of the building, Red Cross - is proposed to sell the part in a charity auction.
Barberán Muñoz declared then that was pleased by the courtesy of saving.
Nevertheless, this mural for decades presided over one of the most traditional prints Segura Murcia passing through.
The Rowing Club, for 37 years, was a benchmark for the sporting and social environment of the city.
Then it was dissolved as a corporate entity in the late seventies and was used in his last season as a center for drug addicts.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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