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The MC Cartagena municipal group will propose, during the next Plenary Session of the Corporation to be held on November 30, that the other groups join the initiative of Cartagena's training for the General Directorate of Cultural Property of CARM to initiate the initiation of the file that allows the declaration of Casa Zapata as an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC).

It should be remembered that the Casa Zapata is a property listed in the Special Plan for the Regulation and Protection of the Historic Area (PEOPCH), with the 'Grade 1'.

The mayor of MC and councilor of the area of ​​Culture and Heritage, Ricardo Segado, has indicated that "when applying for Casa Zapata the qualification of Cultural Interest, we intend to pay, from this Town Hall, a tribute to the exquisite care that the community of nuns Carmelitas Descalzas has dedicated over more than seventy years and, in turn, call attention to a property that is a clear reference of regional modernist architecture.

Taking a tour through the history of the building, Segado has indicated that "in 1909, Miguel Zapata Hernández, son of Miguel Zapata Sáez, the so-called 'Uncle Lobo', commissioned the architect Víctor Beltrí the project for the construction of a house in the Ensanche , which would be his new residence once he contracted marriage with Concepción Echevarría and Carvajal, Marquesa de Villalba de los Llanos ".

At the same time, he recalled that the radical change experienced between the 60s and 90s in the urbanization of the Ensanche with the construction of high-rise buildings led to the disappearance of the so-called 'little hotels', as it was called to the chalets of the time that they were in the environment, freeing the Zapata House "of his disappearance thanks to the congregation of the Carmelites acquired it in the 40s to install the school, conserving it to this day," said the mayor.

The Zapata House, referring to the regional modernist architecture as mentioned above, also has a clear Gothic inspiration, very common in Catalonia at the time, Ricardo Segado also noted that "Beltrí found in the large dimensions of the plot a great opportunity to express itself ", when projecting a large building in carved stone seen with details in artificial stone.

The building also maintains modernist carpentry and even the magnificent pavements of Nolla in some rooms, a mosaic that began to be manufactured in England in the 1850s, with Miguel Nolla in Spain making the first patent and starting manufacturing in 1863

Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena