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The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, today visited with the mayor of Mula, Diego Cervantes, the rehabilitation work carried out since April in the convent of San Francisco.
The convent, declared of Cultural Interest on 2 May with the category of monument has a total built area of 5,000 square meters per floor, of which 1,000 belong to the church.
This building "is meant to be one of the most important cultural sites throughout the Region of Murcia," said Cruz, who also advanced, although not defined applications that will have once completed, "there are already some ideas on the table "that" will Mula singling out one of the great capitals of culture in the region. "
Furthermore, "cultural uses will be complemented with other resorts," he said.
The Convent of San Francisco was built in the sixteenth century on the site of an ancient chapel dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, located on the outskirts of the city, near the Puerta de Murcia.
Linked to the Marquis of Vélez, the Franciscan convent was influential in their environment and had its heyday during the eighteenth century.
Mendizabal with the seizure of this property came to break up private properties in various applications such as storage accommodating wheat, homes, theater, trade, small industry.
Of the original monastery complex, there are two totally different volumes: the XVI century church and cloister.
The key element that characterizes the building is the courtyard of the cisterns, in whose land housing two rainwater tanks with watery curbs.
The initial budget work amounts to 2,453,894 euros, of which the Community through Culture and Tourism, supports 962,000, while the Ministries of Development and Culture, by one percent Cultural contribute 1,481,984 euros , and the remaining $ 10,000, the City of Mula.
Source: CARM
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