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The meeting is being held in Zamora, organized by the National Association for the Conservation and Study of the Mills and the University of Salamanca, with the title "The defense of our heritage."
The paper's president and associate HUERMUR AJVA dealing with "The Case of Mill propatrimonio Oliver and movement in the Huerta de Murcia".
In his speech, Pedro Fernandez also has an unpublished document from 1755 that lists the mills and other hydraulic constructions existing in Murcia on that date.
This week, representatives of the Youth Association Villa de Aljucer and Conservation Association de la Huerta de Murcia are participating in the World Congress Molinología.
The event, held in Zamora until Sunday, is organized by ACEM (Association for the Conservation and Study of the Mills) and the University of Salamanca, and in this seventh edition has the title "The defense of our heritage ".
As on this topic is focused on work in recent years are ongoing entities that are part of the Collective of Associations, Heritage, presented a paper to the Scientific Committee of Congress, who was chosen to expose the thematic block "Preservation and protection of heritage: objectives, methodology, activities, legislation and others."
The presentation of the paper is run by Pedro Jesus Fernandez, president of AJVA pro-equity and activist, whose agency led the demonstrations in 2008 against the Board of Landowners to stop the demolition of Mill Aljucer Oliver.
This attempt to shoot down, paralyzed at first by the police and is currently in the hands of a court, also damage the coat of arms BIC holding in its facade, recently restored and can be seen temporarily in the Archaeological Museum.
The paper received the title of "Defending the hydraulic system of the Huerta de Murcia: Oliver's Mill and the pro-heritage", which traces the history Fernández, operation and problems of Murcia network of ditches, and the current state of neglect and which are its assets and liabilities, such as wells, bridges, aqueducts and mills.
In the second part, the president of AJVA exposes the facts of Oliver Mill, his attempt to throw and measures undertaken to enforce conservation and restoration.
Fernandez finished the lecture with the proposals and activities HUERMUR and pro-equity partnerships are underway for the conservation and protection of the network of canals and its unique elements.
In the course of this paper, has published an unpublished document on water infrastructure in the municipality of Murcia in 1756, belonging to the Ensenada Cadastre held in the Crown of Castile, discovered the result of historical research and files of these associations.
The document notes the great importance of the hydraulic network of the Huerta de Murcia in past centuries, and high link between water use of irrigation canals and agriculture, industry and commerce at the time.
The text reads: "In the seventeenth said: That the term (Murcia) are twenty-eight Flour Mill Water, wind twenty, twenty-nine of oil, one of pepper, four of powder, forty and nine ovens baking bread, ten of tile and brick, three frenerías, two mills, a sewing waterproof linen, soap boiler, a salt and saltpetre factory .... "
Cadastre of Ensenada, Interrogation of Murcia, January 20, 1756 During this conference, have also exposed other presentations on activities in the Region of Murcia, as the mills which have focused on the Campo de Cartagena, the Molino del Saltaor in Aguilas , and Molineta de Moratalla, which has been an important representation of citizens and civic initiatives in the Region of Murcia.
Source: AJVA
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