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- The orange formation promoted the Master Plan and the inclusion of the Santa Lucia cemetery in the European network of significant cemeteries

The cemetery of San Ginés de la Jara, located next to the highway of La Manga, very close to the monastery of the same name, happened in 2011 to be owned by the City of Cartagena, but has always lacked lighting, "which causes the fall of the sun is practically impossible its access, as well as to carry out the own works of concierge ", maintains the spokesman of Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín.

The Orange formation will take this question to the next Plenary and will ask that work be started to provide lighting to this cemetery.

On the other hand, the orange spokesman has recriminated the precarious state of conservation of some of the pantheons, the improvement of access, and other elements, and will ask about the plans that the City Council has for its maintenance.

Ciudadanos recalled that in July 2016, the then councilor of the area of ​​Quality of Life, the local Francisco Calderón, the general coordinator of Historical Heritage and Archeology of the City Council, Carmen Berrocal, and various municipal technicians visited, among others, This municipal cemetery of the late nineteenth century, "more than two years ago a review of the pantheons was carried out and proceeded to its cataloging, but we do not know anything else, we do not know that after this previous work has been undertaken any action in this cemetery that gave dignified burial to the sons of the mining sierra Cartagena-La Union, we know nothing of that plan for the optimization of income of the municipal cemeteries, we must remember that these places move the year in Cartagena about one million euros for fees and maintenance. "

The San Ginés de la Jara cemetery is one of the four graveyards owned by the City Council together with those of Santa Lucía, San Antón and Alumbres.

One of the lines of work of Cs is to value the magnificent funerary heritage of Cartagena.

"We have not escaped the progressive change of consciousness that has occurred in the world with respect to these spaces since the mid-twentieth century, its value has increased, its economic management has been profitable, and in some cases its immense possibilities of tourist attraction, almost like open-air museums ", explains Manuel Padín.

Citizens remember the declaration of Newcastle during the X Forum International Forum UNESCO in 2005 which states that "cultural landscapes are not only pleasant and enjoyable places but can also be places of pain, suffering, death, war, therapy, reconciliation and memories. "

Cemetery of Santa Lucia

Regarding the great cemetery of Our Lady of the Remedies, Cs maintains that it is one of the best testimonies of the history of Cartagena and the first monumental cemetery of the Region, "for which it deserved to be integrated into the European network to promote the funerary patrimony of the city placing it at the same level as other fields of the continent of great historical and artistic importance ".

Through a motion, the orange formation promoted that the Santa Lucía cemetery belonged to the Association of Significant Cemeteries of Europe (ASCE), "and we have promoted the Master Plan for its enhancement".

In this sense, Cs reminds that the Government of Cartagena announced almost a year ago that it had already prepared this plan that provided for the recovery of the Pedreño Pantheon, the creation of a website, security measures, the edition of a tourist catalog, a book of divulgation, the printing of explanatory brochures and the placement of indicative posters of the most outstanding graves.

Among them, the engineer Isaac Peral, the painter Wssell de Guimbarda, the bullfighter Enrique Cano, the romantic poet José Martínez Monroy and also the merchants Juan Crespo and Manuel Picó, the industrial Andrés Pedreño, the Dorda family or the Aguirre, or personalities like Celestino Martínez.

"Despite this, and one year after the announcement, the Government still does not allow us to have a copy of the Master Plan that we demand in order to analyze it in detail, an issue that we have already transferred to the Council of Transparency of the Murcia Region. if this strange resolution were to undermine our right to access public information, "says Padín, who concludes: At the moment, we only have proof of the repainting of the perimeter fence of the Pedreño pantheon, but nothing more;

sad balance after so many years of political momentum.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena