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The new Center Ethnographic house Casa del Cura permanent displays and exhibitions on the history and traditions of the municipality.
The City Council and the Community have recovered 7,000 meters of the property with new parkland and a public park near the house of the nineteenth century "for conversion into a tourist and cultural space that will be completed with the new Ethnographic Center."
The Municipality of Puerto Lumbreras starts this week for the construction works of a new 'Ethnographic Centre' on the traditions and local history to be built in the new cultural and tourism created through the rehabilitation of the Casa del Cura.
The Mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, explained that "the construction of the new Center for Ethnography in the priest's house and continue to expand this content providing new tourist space we created with the comprehensive rehabilitation of the iconic nineteenth-century housing ".
In this sense, the construction of ethnographic center with an investment of over € 150,000 will financed through European Leader Plus project, which promotes the Integral Development Association 'Campodos'.
Thus, the ethnographic center will be built in a building attached to the priest's house, where formerly they kept the farm implements.
Thus, the new facility will have 115 square meters incorporating an Ethnographic Hall with permanent exhibits on local history and traditions, and audiovisual and multimedia area which will display in the documentary and multimedia works on the history of local traditions.
The Centre also includes a Training Room where it is planned to develop educational and cultural workshops, and a multipurpose room for the development of exhibitions.
Casa del Cura: Promotion of Tourism and Culture
Built by D.
Juan Arcas and inhabited for years by D.
Alberto Marzal, the estate of the priest's house offers a two-story house and large balconies, and a room where they kept the ancient farming tools and people residing in charge of maintaining the land.
La Casa del Cura is currently considered a manor house built in the nineteenth century with more than 1,300 square meters and is part of the regional architectural heritage.
The building, located in an area of ​​recent expansion of the urban core to the hamlet of La Station-Esparragal, "has a structure typical rural farmhouse has been renovated and converted into a public space that is intended to promote tourism, history and culture of the municipality, "said Sanchez.
In this way, and through the actions promoted by the City and the Autonomous Region, have enabled more than 7,000 square meters of new parkland estate with gardens and a public park that includes a bar-cafeteria.
In addition, wards have been museum to visit the historic building, which also are exhibited to raise awareness of deep-rooted traditions of the municipality in terms of agriculture, and local craft shows.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras
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