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Unanimously, the Informative Commission, meeting this morning, under the presidency of the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, has reported the eight files of honors and distinctions, aimed at the award of the Gold Medal of Cartagena to Antonio Bermejo, the "priest worker "of Vista Alegre, and the nomination of various streets and squares, after instructing the corresponding files and submitting to public information.

As will be remembered the beginning of the procedures for the award of the Gold Medal to Antonio Bermejo, it was unanimously agreed on February 12, and during the period of public exposure has received numerous adhesions from institutions, neighbors and authorities, who have highlighted his labor and humanitarian work carried out for more than 38 years, at the head of the parish of Vista Alegre, a neighborhood for which he has always cared for the most needy and for achieving just and worthy levels of well-being.

Regarding nominations of streets and squares that had no name until now, a green light has been given in Pozo Estrecho to those of Pedro Fructuoso Torres, exconcejal and former deputy mayor of Cartagena City Council who died in 2012, and José Conesa Montserrat, founder of the Santa Cecilia Musical Art Society, requested by the Neighborhood Board.

In Cartagena, a green light has been given to the nominations of three women ahead of their time: the one on the street by the journalist and writer Teresa Arróniz y Bosch (1827-1890), who links the Severo Ochoa square with the street of Antonio Lauret;

that of the plaza of the feminist, writer and nurse, Lolita Bas Bonald (1905-1930), at the confluence of Ingeniero de la Cierva Street and Pintor Portela Avenue;

and that of the municipal sexologist, Cristina Esparza Martín, who died in 2015, who will name the Juvenile Resource Center of the Paseo de Alfonso XIII and requested by the GALACTYCO Collective.

In San Antón, the nomination of José María Ros el Pila, a former president of the neighborhood association, who died in 2017, has been given the green light;

and in La Puebla, to the plaza of Juan López Gambín (1894-1971) requested by the neighborhood board, to be considered one of the three pioneering characters of the town, when it was no more than a hamlet.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena