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The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, today visited the Church of San Juan de Dios de Murcia after the restoration work, with an investment of 969,000 euros, began during the month of August and ended in December 2008.

Counselor accompanied the Director General of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, the architect in charge of the works, Juan de Dios de la Hoz, director of the Museo de Bellas Artes de Murcia, on which San Juan de Dios, Juan Sandoval García, and space charge, Elisa Franco.

The Church, which is one of the sites of the anthology of Antonio Campillo organized by the Ministry of Culture in collaboration with the city of Murcia and Caja Mediterráneo, has expanded its exhibition space to improve the conditions of parts with the enhancement the building and also increase the quality of issues relating to the holding of concerts, mostly classical and baroque music.

In addition, works have allowed the documentation of a Muslim oratory in the second half of the twelfth century, which is still ongoing and that will, according to Cruz, "a stunning look that will connect two cultures seemingly far apart, but in the thread of time acquire many ties as was the baroque and Islamic. "

The work, led by the architect Juan de Dios de la Hoz and executed by the Company Azuche 88, have enabled the elimination of detected pathologies and improve the finish, and recovery facilities both inside the facades of the monumental , which includes, for example, an electrostatic system to ensure the departure of the doves with a series of rapid voltage pulses with little power consumption, for an unlimited duration without causing any harm to the animal.

Furthermore, in parallel with the work has been possible to document building structures around an Arab or Islamic oratory Mihrab connected to the primitive or Rawda palace and a family vault, all carried out by the archaeological team consisting of José Antonio Sánchez and Luis Pravia A.

García Blanco.

This chapel in San Juan de Dios was built in the third quarter of the twelfth century, during the period of government of Ibn Mardanish, and his life as religious scene would end with the arrival of Spanish in Murcia and the consequent taking of the castle in 1243, and in Mudejar stage.

Source: CARM