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- The orange training will subordinate its support to the municipal budgets this year to the allocation of a sufficient amount to make the project a reality, "if MC and PP refuse to negotiate the accounts and do not succeed, it will be one of our priority objectives to Starting in May, if we are decisive we will demand or assume the musealization ", said today the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín

- Citizens has held today in the Consistorial Palace the day "heroic and unique buildings of Spain, Cartagena in the Mediterranean"

Citizens announced today that it will promote the creation of the Isaac Peral Museum in the house that this illustrious Cartagena had in the Callejón de Zorrilla, right in the center of the city of Cartagena.

The orange training has reported that it will promote this action by conditioning its support for the municipal budgets of 2019, and if they do not go ahead due to lack of support, this investment will be prioritized among its objectives to boost Cartagena as a cultural tourist destination starting from the electoral appointment, "from the opposition or from the Government, whoever is in the government team, if we are decisive, if someone wants the direct or indirect support of our Municipal Group, the Isaac Peral Museum will have to start being a reality This same year, "the spokesman of Cs Cartagena, Manuel Padín, has pointed out to the journalists who have attended the conference" Heroic and singular constructions of Spain, Cartagena in the Mediterranean ", organized by Cs Cartagena and that has had the participation of the brothers Juan Ignacio and José Manuel Chacón, specialist in the work of Isaac Peral and in the construction of the former prisoner barracks

s and slaves (CIM) respectively, the doctor by the UPCT, María Jesús Peñalver, and Juan Carlos García, vice president of the COEC and president of the Hotel Association of Cartagena and Region.

The Cs spokesman recalled that it was in December 2015 when the City of Cartagena acquired for 65,000 euros the birthplace of Isaac Peral "after more than three years neither PSOE nor MC have moved a finger to develop the project, have preferred to spend 500,000 euros to buy the Hotel Peninsular for a member of the localist party before putting in value one of the most international Cartagena ".

In addition, Ciudadanos also wants to establish a cultural route, "as several voices have suggested, such as those of the researchers, Diego Quevedo and Juan Ignacio Chacón, we want to close the Peral triangle and enable a cultural route formed by his birth house, the submarine of the Naval Museum and the mausoleum where he is buried in the cemetery of Los Remedios in Santa Lucia. "

Citizens estimate that between 200,000 and 300,000 euros will be required for this objective.

"It is a shame that people like Diego Quevedo, who has more than 200 signed photographs and original Peral objects and who is willing to donate his treasures to the city, continue to wait year after year for the arrival of the Casa Museo, which by the way, It will be the first of these characteristics in the Region of Murcia, "said Manuel Padín.

Strategic Tourism Plan

In addition, the spokesman of Citizens ensures that his Group is committed to making the Strategic Tourism Plan pending since the MC-PSOE coalition government announced it in 2015, "we are clear that this plan has to be led and developed by the professionals of the sector, politicians have to take our hands and give way to specialized technicians and groups who walk the street and know it as Hostecar, who has to gain presence in the Port of Cultures consortium a space that meets the right conditions to undertake the that is probably the most important strategic project Cartagena has on its horizon ".

"Let's take tourism out of the political struggle, we have to gain continuity in such a challenge, the plan can not be subject to the political colors or to the councilors of Tourism that go through the Department, the tourism plan needs professionalism, direct experience and continuity "

Conference on heroic and singular constructions

Ciudadanos has selected for its journey three unique buildings full of history such as the Submarino Peral, the Royal Arsenal together with the dock of the Port of Cartagena, and the barracks of Prisoners and Slaves of Cartagena, the former Marine Training Center (CIM) where Currently, the Faculty of Business Sciences, the Naval Museum and some University and Cultural Extension Services are located.

The first report has corresponded to the researcher and specialist in naval infrastructures, Juan Ignacio Chacón, who has explained part of his work 'El submarino Peral.

Day by day of its construction '.

Then, the architect José Manuel Chacón, offered a talk related to his work "The black house, the barracks of prisoners and slaves of Cartagena", published by the UPCT, a magnificent book that arises from a meticulous research work that has supposedly an extraordinary contribution to the national penitentiary bibliography.

Then it was the turn of the doctor architect by the UPCT, María Jesús Peñalver, who has intervened to explain part of his doctoral thesis, "The construction of the Royal Arsenal of Cartagena throughout the eighteenth century, paradigm of enlightened knowledge."

The person in charge of closing the day, was Juan Carlos García, vice president of COEC, president of the Hotel Association of Cartagena and Region and member of the Board of Directors of Cartagena Port of Cultures that has offered a talk about the potential, still untapped , of Cartagena as a cultural tourist destination.

The presentation of the event and the speakers was given by the spokesperson of Citizens in Cartagena, "our land is still the great secret of Spain, we are light years away from our true potential, we can and must work with ambition to place ourselves as one of the Spanish destinations preferred by those tourists with historical, cultural and patrimonial concerns ".

"If we have to be a secret, Cs wants Cartagena to be an open secret, and with these days we wanted to put a bit more to explain our wealth," says Manuel Padin who says "be finalizing actions and plans together with groups and experts from the sector so that the municipality can fly to the place where it deserves to be in Spain and in the world ".

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena