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The BIC declaration covers important areas such as the Victoria Cave deposit and also intangible assets such as Romería
The Community has initiated the procedure to declare Monte Miral or Cabezo de San Ginés de la Jara Cultural Property with the status of 'Historic Site', whose resolution will be published soon in the Official Gazette of the Region (BORM) by the Directorate General of Cultural Assets of the Ministry of Culture and Portavocía.
This was announced this morning by the Minister of Culture and spokesman of the regional government, Noelia Arroyo, who visited the Monastery of San Ginés de la Jara to know the state of recovery works being carried out, at the request of the Community, in this Property declared of Cultural Interest (BIC) in 1992.
Arroyo showed "the great satisfaction that one of the references of our regional heritage, the Monastery of San Ginés de la Jara, will be finally recovered for the citizens, after a few years in which, from the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage have had to take different measures of conservation and preventive consolidation to ensure the integrity of the monument.
"Now we are on the right path," he said, and recalled that "it is our duty to be vigilant so that the works carried out in this construction of the sixteenth century fit the project approved by the General Directorate of Cultural Property in 2006" .
The works began in November and are scheduled to be completed by mid-2018. Then, according to Arroyo, "the Monastery of San Ginés will join the long list of restored buildings and monuments, a rich heritage that has become one of the More important claims for tourism in our Region, and that we want to continue to strengthen with new measures such as 1 percent cultural, which will mean allocating 1.3 million euros to the recovery of our heritage, which must also be an economic and Of job creation ".
Justification of the declaration
The declaration of the Cabezo de San Ginés de la Jara Well as BIC, with category of 'Historic Site', is justified by the need to protect the whole environment of the Monastery.
The site of Victoria Cave has given extraordinary scientific results in recent years.
At the same time, the contour of the hill includes a deposit of the upper Paleolithic, other three of Roman time and it should not be ruled out that new deposits appear.
At the same time, and in view of the discovery of the remains of more hermitages, in addition to the three already declared BIC in the same dossier of the monastery, the latter must also be protected as a Cultural Interest, while an archaeological study Of the area.
Arroyo declared in this sense that the Cabezo de San Ginés "contains all the properties to proceed to its declaration as BIC, since it is a place or natural place linked to events of the past, to creations of the nature and works of the man that possess values Historical, technical and industrial ".
Specifically, "we find palaeontological, archaeological and witness to the medieval, modern and contemporary history of our region."
Parts of the Good
In the Cabezo de San Ginés, called in the antiquity of 'San Laurés or Larinum', it emphasizes the presence of Cueva Victoria, that presents / displays an interesting mining history, emphasizing its important formations of baritina and its deposits of calcite.
It has found skeletal remains of 90 species of vertebrates with an age that reaches 900,000 years, making Cueva Victoria an exceptional site, a sample of the fauna that inhabited the peninsular southeast during the lower Pleistocene.
It is also relevant the appearance of a human phalange that would demonstrate, according to experts, the arrival of population to the Peninsula across the Strait of Gibraltar.
The protected area includes the prehistoric site 'Monte Miral' and three other Roman times (between the second and first centuries BC): Calzada del Beal, Petrica and Strait of San Gines.
In addition, it is an area especially relevant for its mining operations, its activity dates back to the Punic and Roman times, and the architectural remains of the different mining concessions are scattered throughout the area.
Beside the material goods named, also include in this declaration intangible goods such as the pilgrimage that is celebrated every year;
"A beautiful tradition that has its origins in the fourteenth century and which is maintained thanks to the devotion of the Carthaginians and the work of the members of the Brotherhood of Romeros de San Ginés de la Jara and now, thanks to this statement, Will be better known by the inhabitants of inside and outside our Region, "explained Arroyo.
Source: CARM
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