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Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, yesterday visited the city of Barcelona, where he signed with the Deputy Mayor of the accession a Cartagena agreement to the European Route of Modernism, promoted by the Catalan town.
In this sense, the city of Cartagena is leading, together with the autonomous region, a policy of restoration of facades of modernist buildings considered BIC (Cultural Property) as part of the vindication of the importance of this architectural movement, represented mainly in the figure of Victor Beltrí in our city.
The European Route of Modernism is a nonprofit association based in Barcelona whose main objective is the promotion and protection of modernist heritage worldwide.
Part of it more than 60 cities and 50 institutions around the world highlighting among its members cities like Vienna or Paris, to name a few.
The initiative to join this route by the council, which also has the support of the Commission Beltrí 2012, was approved by the Local Government Board in a meeting on June 12.
CARTAGENA MODERNIST
The current configuration of historic Cartagena owes its appearance to the modernism of the late nineteenth century.
Rise palaces, houses of the bourgeoisie, a new city hall, a railway station, factories and schools in the new modernist style, with models that were inspired primarily the Catalan modernism.
Victor Beltrí addition, other architects have made notable modernist buildings in the city, such as Carlos Mancha and Tomás Rico.
Pedreño House, the Palace Hall, the Casino and the Grand Hotel, are just some examples of architectural heritage that the city has and that makes it worthy of being part of the European Route of Modernism.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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