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After eight years of negotiations and efforts, the Faculty of Sciences of the Company, located in the old CIM, has officially opened this morning by the President of the Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel and Secretary of State for Defence , Constantino Mendez, accompanied by the Mayor Pilar Barreiro, general secretary of the Socialist Party of the Region of Murcia, Pedro Saura, the Rector of the UPCT, Felix Faure, and different personalities and authorities in the world of culture and education.
The president Ramon Luis Valcarcel has stressed that it was worth investing in this project, from 16.20 million euros, which includes education, culture and maintains the hallmark military has the city of Cartagena.
During the ceremony, the president Félix Faure thanked the City of Cartagena and the Directorate General of Culture have the facilities to carry out rehabilitation work is complete.
It has been important points of encounter that occurred between the administrations and that has allowed this building open from today we put at the service of society.
In addition to the recovery of CIM, which has 32 classrooms adapted to the requirements of the Bologna Process, the project also included construction of a modern annexe on the north side of 3,600 square feet to address the needs of existing space and the found over a hundred offices for faculty and meeting rooms of the faculty.
In this space has been restored for the city, plans to create, in addition to the academic center, new facilities for the Naval Museum, which houses important collections in their collections and objects related to seafaring history, biography important marine and Navy scientists, as well as ships and historic vessels linked to Cartagena and Arsenal.
BUILDING HISTORY OF CIM
Former Seamen Training barracks was built by King Carlos III between 1776 and 1786 as headquarters of Prisoners.
The military needs during the second half of XVIIII led the construction of large military installations.
Military Arsenal (1749-1782), the Naval Military Hospital (1745-1762), the Park of Artillery (1777-1786) or Antigones Barracks (1783-.1796) are the greatest exponents of the creation of large architecture.
The implementation of the Technical University eleven years ago led to the use of several of these buildings belonging to the Ministry of Defence and the Naval Hospital, the headquarters of Antigone or even the CIM, who are now college campuses.
CIM building was built according to plans by Carlos Reggio and direction of Matthew Vodopich, who in March 1775 presented to the Board of the Department a document which outlined the relationship of pine wood needed for the foundations of architectural and the gates should have their windows and is only currently.
In 1824, the CIM was transferred to the Ministry of the Interior, being separated by a wall Military Arsenal.
It was not until after the Civil War when he returned to the hands of the Navy.
After some reforms, the building was first used as barracks Seamanship instruction until its closure in the late 90's as a result of the demise of compulsory military service.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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