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The City Council arranges the monuments of its illustrious personages (04/01/2017)

Cartagena City Council has initiated a series of cleaning, polishing and repainting activities in various monuments, erected in memory of illustrious people of the city, within a plan of cleaning and recovery of sculptures and other monuments for which the Area of ​​Urbanism and Infrastructures, directed by the mayor, José López, and the Area of ​​Culture, Archaeological Heritage, Sports and Youth, which is in front, Ricardo Segado.

The objective of this measure is to dignify the monuments destined to pay homage to relevant personages of the history of the city.

These include the sculpture dedicated to the Processionist (San Sebastián Square);

The busts of the painter Vicente Ros (Calle Campos), the Maestro Álvarez Alonso (Plaza del Rey) and the poet and processionist Juan Jorquera del Valle (in front of the Artillery Park).

Likewise, other works such as those aimed at improving the image of the source of access to the Parque Torres Auditorium or the fountain located on the Arsenal wall, located on Calle Real, are also noteworthy.

After the Christmas holidays, the reorganization of the Plaza San Francisco is planned to allow the figure of Isidoro Máiquez to occupy a more privileged place, as well as works of improvement in the bust dedicated to the composer Gregorio García Segura, among others.

In this sense, municipal technicians are already working, at the initiative of councilman of the area of ​​Culture and Heritage, Ricardo Segado, in an inventory on the state of these cultural assets.

Likewise, a plan for the management of this heritage is planned.

Among the initiatives that demonstrate this commitment to respect and dignity of the history of Cartagena, developed during the last year and a half, are the installation of a base to elevate the monument to the Processionist in order to avoid damages and damages to the figure, As well as the organization during the past 2016 of the Year of Modernism to extol the architectural and cultural treasure that left this movement as a legacy in Cartagena;

The realization of the I Festival of Historic Theater of Cartagena;

The acquisition of the house that saw the birth of the sailor and inventor of Cartagena, Isaac Peral, a house of great historical value that has become a municipal heritage, or the celebration in 2017 of the Year of the Enlightenment.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

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