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Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, this morning the book "Design, construction and structural problems in the City Hall of Cartagena ', written by José María Rubio Paredes and edited by this council.
Montero has identified the publication as rich, complex and well documented, dotted with numerous and varied illustrations and documentary references.
With this book, Rubio Paredes once again honor the city where he was born and raised.
In fact, this is one of many publications on symbolic buildings of Cartagena that the researcher has dealt with his pen, including the Royal Artillery Park, the Castillo de la Concepción, the headlights of the Region of Murcia or the port city.
The Palace Hall subject of this book has been a key stage in childhood and youth of Rubio Paredes.
Born in 1922 in the Calle del Carmen, the researcher grew up in a building (now defunct) where he currently sits Channels Taibilla Commonwealth, which the Town Hall Square became his childhood playground.
The book includes a complete documentation of the building, the original draft and subsequent amendments and the structural problems that emerged from this project.
It was a poorly designed site without foundation and badly executed.
It was the first sinking by a municipality from the institution of the council of Cartagena in the sixteenth century, says Rubio Paredes.
All these details can be found in a book that has helped the Municipal Archives and also includes 25 bibliographic searches and 261 documentaries, 32 plans, drawings and photographs and a photo album with 25 images of the building.
In total 500 copies have been published, to be acquired soon in bookstores at a price of 13.85 euros.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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