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Huermur asks the Ministry of Culture and the City of Murcia to urgently repair the geotextile of the archaeological site of San Esteban, given the numerous breaks of the protections of the remains in areas where it is not working and there is no forecast of next intervention.
The conservationist group congratulates the Consistory for the tasks of excavation and consolidation that are being carried out open to the public, but qualifies as insufficient and late.
Therefore, he recommends that he expand the excavation to the entire deposit, and consolidate it after almost a decade of abandonment.
Huermur remembers that this site, one of the most important of the Spanish Levant, is preserved thanks to the massive public mobilization that in 2009 managed to stop the underground parking that was planned, and that is BIC thanks to the request of Huermur and the citizen platform.
The Association for the Conservation of the Garden and the Heritage of Murcia (HUERMUR) has requested in writing to the Ministry of Culture and the City of Murcia to carry out urgent repairs of the geotextile of the deposit of San Esteban or Arrixaca, since presents numerous and diverse breaks of its protections against the inclemencies meteorological, and especially in different points of the southeast sector, where it is not working at present, nor has a near forecast of intervention on the remains of this part of the archaeological site .
Huermur urges that facing the entrance of midwinter, and future precipitation, repairs or replace the geotextile of all areas of the Arrabal, as well as review the operation of water extraction pumps to prevent flooding as the already occurred in previous years.
In the same sense, Huermur congratulates the Consistory for the work of excavation and consolidation that are being carried out in the northwest sector next to Jerónimo de Roda and Callejón Burruezo, to discover walls and two monumental spaces: on the one hand the 'funduk' lodging of pilgrims and merchants, and the religious group, formed by the cemetery and the Mudejar oratory.
Although from the group they request that the excavations be extended to the whole site in an integral way, and consolidate it completely after almost a decade of abandonment.
Finally, Huermur remembers that this site, one of the most important of the Spanish Levant and dating mainly from the XI-XIII centuries, is preserved thanks to the massive public mobilization that in 2009 managed to stop the underground parking that was planned, and that It was declared as an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC) thanks to the request of Huermur in 2009 and the citizen platform, based on the administrative and historical documentation prepared by the conservationist association.
Source: HUERMUR
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