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The Local Government Board, meeting with extraordinary character, under the chairmanship of the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, has approved this morning to request a grant for the restoration of the so-called Molino de la Piedra, in Los Mateos, 5 percent of the Ministry of Development.

As explained by Ana Belén Castejón in the appearance after the meeting, this is a project for the amount of 239 thousand euros of which the City has committed to finance 25 percent, namely 59,757 euros,

Running the rest in charge of 1.5 percent cultural.

Its execution period is three months and it has the support of the Directorate General of Cultural Property.

The mayor has called attention to the importance of this project that is adapted to the characteristics of the call;

Since the recovery of a heritage element as important as this windmill, municipal property, joins the social character and economic development that will have, as it will mean the recovery of an environment such as the neighborhood of Los Mateos,

A new tourist attraction will be created and two workshops will be set up at a later stage for the training of the unemployed: a carpentry for the restoration of the blades and candles, and another for gardening, for the recovery of native species around the mound on The one that sits.

The mill that was used to grind flour, is declared of Cultural Interest and is located along the road of La Union, on a promontory of about nine meters in height, that constitutes a characteristic element of the landscape and a viewpoint for the visitors , Since it has access both wheeled and pedestrian.

The mayor recalled the last two actions carried out in Cartagena with a charge of 1.5 percent cultural, as were the rehabilitation of the Palace Hall for 8.6 million euros and completed in 2006,

And the rehabilitation of the Palacio de Aguirre as Museum of Modern Art in the region of Murcia, for 1 million euros, and completed in 2008;

And has expressed its confidence that the current Government of the Nation, as already happened with national government of political sign to the municipal, includes the one of the Mill of Wind of the Mateos among the subsidized projects.

Castejón thanked the work deployed in recent days by the Culture and Heritage Area so that the project and the file was ready for submission before the deadline, tomorrow, August 17.

The Councilor for Culture and Heritage, Ricardo Segado, who accompanied the coordinator of Patrimony, Maricarmen Berrocal, accompanied the mayor at the appearance, explained that the project was presented because it was the one that was prepared and comes to Complete the initiatives that are carried out in the environment through the Fénix Manifesto and the European project MAPS for the recovery of the Castle of the Moors.

Segado has expressed the Government's willingness to present the next year's meeting of the Amphitheater, which is waiting for the Regional Government to support the drafting of a master plan.

Segado also recalled the actions carried out by the current municipal government in the matter of recovering both tangible and intangible heritage, pointing out the momentum of the restoration of the Monastery of San Ginés de la Jara, the projects of Victoria Cave and the Fort of Despeñaperros;

The realization of new archaeological excavations and the valorization of the Roman Forum;

The recovery projects of the two municipal-owned windmills, Este de la Piedra in Los Mateos, and another in La Asomada;

The imposition to the declaration of new goods of cultural interest or the celebrations of the years of the Modernism and the Enlightenment.

The Heritage coordinator, Maricarmen Berrocal, has indicated that serious work has been done.

The project contemplates the restoration of the tower and the deck of the Mill, as well as external spaces of approximately 250 square meters that will be adapted for social use by the collectives of the neighborhood, leaving for a later stage the recovery of the blades and The candles through a carpentry training workshop.

Berrocal has also meant the patrimonial importance of the windmills of Latin sail, of marine technique, and that extend by the Mediterranean from Crete to Cadiz and for which it is being asked from the Government of the Nation the declaration of patrimony of the Unesco.

As will be remembered, according to the Heritage Law, the Ministry of Development must allocate a percentage of the budget of works of the State to the recovery of cultural property or incentive of artistic creation.

This percentage until 2013 was 1 percent, which rose to 1.5 percent.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena