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The old windows, Muñoz Barberán painter's work, which adorned the facade of the late Rowing Club, and look again at its best.
The windows, which have been restored by the Program Murcia was in recent weeks have finished installing the building that will house the future library of Santiago El Mayor.
Specifically, the venue is the reading room.
The construction of the Gateway Manterola precipitated the demolition of the club in February 1997.
Even then the controversy has arisen over the destruction of a huge mural of Barberán Muñoz, held in 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 even used in his last season as a center for drug addicts.
Program expands
The recovery of the windows of Barberán Muñoz is a new extension of Murcia city program was an initiative that will recover a prominent part of the past of the city of Murcia.
The initiative, to date, has allowed the recovery of important works such as sculpture, Children Playing, Seiquer Elisa, already located in the garden of the Three Cups, the monolith of Carlos IV, placed near the center doors of Castile, the sculpture The Fama, Gonzalez Moreno, placed before the Government Office, or, among others, the popular Lion of the Malecon, which is being restored at the Restoration Center of the Autonomous Community.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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