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The Councilor for Urban Agenda and Open Government, Mercedes Bernab, has visited this morning the exhibition 'King Wolf.
The Legacy of Ibn Mardanish ', in the Archaeological Museum of Murcia.
This exhibition, funded by the Seneca Foundation, highlights the origins of the Genoese presence in Murcia.
The councilor has been accompanied during the tour of its curators, Jorge Eiroa, professor of Medieval History at the University of Murcia, and Mara ngeles Gmez, curator of the Santa Clara Museum.
Specifically, the mayor focused her visit in the room dedicated to the origins of the Genoese presence in Murcia, a link that dates back to the years 1147 and 1172, during the Islamic period of the reign of Ibn Mardanish, the Wolf King.
And it is that last year, both mayors, Jos Ballesta and Marco Bucci, after a meeting in Genoa established an agreement in order to strengthen the historical ties of more than nine centuries between both cities and thus promote joint tourism and commercial projects.
For this reason, within the framework of the Twinning between the two cities, the Councilor for Urban Agenda during her visit to the exhibition has shown her support for the University of Murcia in an investigation that aims to study existing historical relations and that, without any doubt, will strengthen the historical basis of twinning between both cities.
According to Mercedes Bernab, “the twinning between the two cities goes beyond the relations between consistories, also covering the bilateral relations between universities, other organizations and entities, as well as the citizenship itself.
Therefore, the University of Murcia has all our support in this research in the framework of twinning, as well as in other actions such as the exchange of students through the Erasmus Project ”.
Murcia and Genoa share in addition to the Mediterranean culture that frames its climate, its landscape, its gastronomic and ethnographic culture, deep and historical ties prior to those traditionally documented especially from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
These ties continue today.
Thus, within the framework of the management of EU-funded projects, Murcia and Genoa have developed joint initiatives in various fields, such as sustainable mobility with the ELECRA project (Electric City Transport) and citizen participation in revitalization of neighborhoods (Urban DNA).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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