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Murcia is culture, a city overturned in culture and cultural reference center of the Mediterranean.

This could summarize driven management over the past four years by the Mayor, Miguel Angel House, through the Department of Culture, directed by Rafael Gomez.

The great cultural activity developed has generated greater demand materializes in the 3 open theaters in the city, to which are added 5 auditoriums, 49 cultural centers in neighborhoods and districts and municipal museums and theaters.

Murcia hosts every season around 600 performances in its theaters and 400 workshops were held in the Centers of Art and Design (cultural centers, more doors of Castilla and artillery barracks).

Recovery Circus Theatre and the Artillery Barracks, the rehabilitation of the tower-house of Bethlehem, building audiences in Guadalupe, Algezares or La Alberca, boosting the restoration of provincial prison, rehabilitation of several chapels and churches and the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage have been achieved this term objectives.

New Theatre CircoTras five years of rehabilitation and twenty being closed, opened again the old Teatro Circo Villar in 2011. The center, which was inaugurated on November 5, 1892, he remained in constant activity until February 1984. an activity that included circus, zarzuela and varieties and slowly leaned new art of filmmaking.

In fact, it was the place that introduced the first projector and sound reproducing apparatus.

The rehabilitation project respected the conservation of the building structure in its entirety, along with the expansion of the stage and the creation of an area to locate basement dressing rooms, storage rooms and a rehearsal room.

Specifically, the new Circus Theatre has a capacity of 694 seats, 290 in the stalls, 90 stalls, 120 in the first amphitheater and 194 in the second, which will add another 117 in the rehearsal room of basement.

ArtilleríaEl headquarters City Council has launched to recover the main pavilion of artillery barracks.

To this end, it has commissioned the building rehabilitation project with the aim of making it a great museum space devoted specifically to contemporary sculpture.

The initiative will be developed in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Universities and Gabarron -the Gabarrón Foundation International Foundation, which works in the region through the house painted mule Foundation.

The proposal has two aspects.

For one thing, it is that this space is dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary sculpture, with particular attention to African art.

Moreover, and in addition, it will be transformed into a scenario where organize workshops and classrooms to promote national and international artists, so that Murcia, in the cultural sphere, continue consolidating its presence abroad.

Artillery Barracks center in figures

- In December 2012 2- opens the Pavilion opened in June 2014 Hall 1

Collective residents since opening: 80 (representing over 350 artists) members since opening: 27,000 usuariosNúmero fair: More than 20 Number of exhibitions: 28 exposicionesNúmero workshops: Over 120 Number of activities: More than 200

- Open every day of the week visited by groups, organizations, and institutions and international direct collaboration with public schools and privados.- Relations with the University of Murcia for students practices- continuous creation by citizens through various programs.

OrnamentalEl Sculpture Hall, through MurciaEscultura program has rehabilitated in the last legislature almost all the sculptures that adorn the streets and squares of the city.

Have addressed the replacement of sculptures, as happened with the bust in homage to Manuel prisons, Patiñero, which was stolen Viudes garden in El Carmen.

This time, the author, Nicholas Manuel Almansa, melt the piece again.

Similarly, the Monument Homage Tuna, located in the garden of St. Basil, was the subject of two robberies forced to replace several parts.

Also he disappeared bronze shield which identified the neighborhood of St. Pius X and the reliefs of the sculpture tribute to donors, located in El Palmar.

At present recovery it has driven another piece that was stolen: Tribute to the Civil Guard, located next to the headquarters of Vistalegre.

Alongside these actions, Murcia enjoyed in the streets and squares of the formidable legacy of local sculptors of the nineteenth century thanks to the exhibition of works by authors like José Planes, José González Marcos, Diego Mirete, Molera or Antonio Campillo.

House BelénLa Bethlehem House occupies the premises of the old Clock Tower House Bacons Bridge, a listed building that has been renovated for this purpose, including the noble coat of arms and the sundial located in the tower, and whose works one million euros was invested.

It was inaugurated in December 2013.

The building has a showroom, which occupies part of the ground floor and the first and emblematic works that houses the traditional nativity scene, a projection room and a showroom.

It has also remodeled the garden so that they can perform outdoor exhibitions.

The City Council has also collaborated in the restoration of the Chapel of Burgos, in Nonduermas, the Chapel of Pilar, in Murcia, the Ermita de los Rios, in Lobosillo, and the parishes of Era Alta and Stables.

MonteagudoEl Visitor Center Visitor Center Monteagudo, which occupies an area of ​​over 3,000 square meters, provides support to expose the pieces that have resulted from the various archaeological excavations, present the history of the valley and orchards of Murcia, their palaces and walled enclosures and host cultural activities.

It offers the public a first contact with the history of the city and its various historical episodes.

The building is built around the Plaza de la Ermita de San Cayetano, which embraces putting in value, and allowing the views of the Castle and the Vega de Murcia.

It has five rooms where you can know the origin of the first settlements in the vicinity of Monteagudo, through panels, information, texts and audiovisual showcases reproductions of the pieces found during excavations in the area.

Antonio CampilloLa Sculpture Park facility in 2013 in the Park Campillo 11 reliefs sculptor remembered this space became one of the most important sculptures of Spain outdoor exhibitions.

Negotiations for the park expansion began after the inauguration of space in November 2010, to see that aroused the interest of many Murcia, art lovers and specialized publications, while becoming an important attraction for tourists visiting the city .

Until 2013 the Park and had 9 sculptures, with a splendid portrait of the sculptor in bronze, the work of his pupil, Marta Balmaseda.

The importance of these pieces lies in the artistic quality of each selected by Antonio Campillo as exponents of his sculptural production.

All are cataloged and have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Spain and abroad.

New CulturalEn Center as the site of the old prison, is running a participatory process to define, within its cultural use, potential and services that can be developed, collaboration with various professional associations, including the Association of Architects and universities, with financial support from European funds and the Department of Heritage.

The City Council has designed a comprehensive program of consultation which has so far enjoyed the cooperation of:

- Association of Cultural Managers of the City University of Murcia.- Collective Murcia.- residents Artillería.- Headquarters Students of the University of Murcia.

Course management, AA and BB Arte.- History Culture Various professionals group culture and COMPANY.- College Association for Professionals: Different arquitectos.- heritage interpretation.

Since the start of the web online http://murciaareadecultura.es/ the February 20, 2015 have been received about 4,000 visits, 3,000 of which occurred in the early days.

The number of page views amounted to 27,000, which means that during each visit were viewed an average of 6.75 pages.

Participate in the section gives visitors the chance to send their suggestions, which are recorded on a form.

1,450 suggestions have been made, which include the following:

- Contemporánea.- Culture Center Art Museum Municipal School moderno.- innovation and invención.- varios.- Markets Center marionetas.- puppets and social center and voluntariado.- Fat-Lab or Hub.- pública.- Library Center new technologies and various workshops nocturno.- Hostel juvenil.- Restoration.- Area Headquarters bike rental in town.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia