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Alicia Morales points out that the motion of Murcia Now "joins the celebrations for the fourth centenary of the death of Cervantes and help to bring the figure to Murcia as these facts are known"

NOW MURCIA propose at the next plenary place a plaque in tribute to Miguel de Cervantes in two points of the city that are related to the writer.

The initiative is taking advantage of this year we commemorate the fourth centenary of his death, and is motivated by the fact that the author of 'Don Quixote' apparently stayed in a boardinghouse of Murcia as a central square It owes its name to an exemplary novel of our most universal narrator.

"We find it an enriching proposal from a position culturally, with which our municipality will add to the initiatives for the celebration of the anniversary and will help to bring a little figure of Cervantes to all Murcia because they know these facts, "he says the councilor and spokesman Now Murcia, Alicia Morales.

The mayor said that "is little known the relationship Cervantes had with our region, which is believed to have visited two or three times. In one of them, in 1602, would have been in the city of Murcia, staying a month to exercise its work as a tax collector and, according to tradition, staying in an old inn located in the current Sagasta street. from this fact it echoed a plate placed in that place and now appears to be defunct, so this is one of the two enclaves in which we propose that an explanatory label is installed. "

In addition, as highlighted by Morales, the nations and peoples of the Kingdom of Murcia are alluded to in the work of Cervantes: "In the case of our city, Murcia, is the scene of the exemplary novel 'The gypsy', whose main character, the Beautiful gypsy, turns out to be Constanza, daughter of the Mayor of Murcia, Don Fernando de Acevedo. Precisely the current square Preciosa, near the Alfonso X avenue, named in memory of the character of the famous Cervantes' work, so this it is the other place where we propose that a plaque be placed explain this fact. "

Source: Ahora Murcia