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The layout of this defensive infrastructure of the twelfth century can be traversed in a circular walk that starts from Santa Eulalia.

José Ballesta: "This intervention is added to the integral project 'Murcia Medieval', an action plan that will allow you to walk along a 12th century street in the San Esteban site, stroll among the canvases of the wall that surrounded the city in Santa Eulalia or know the castles and defensive fortifications of the city in Monteagudo. "

The Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, together with the Councilor for Economic Promotion, Culture and European Programs, Jesús Pacheco, presented today the Tourist Route of the Arab Wall of Murcia, a tour that will reveal the remains of Medieval Murcia following the route of the old wall.

"The rich heritage of Murcia is connected by an invisible cord that is the City Wall and its different Doors -of Orihuela, of the Souk, of the Bridge, of Glaziers, of the Bull, of the Market, of Santa Eulalia, of the Sun ... - "Explained the mayor, who stressed that" it is the oldest architectural element of the city, along with the acequias system, whose configuration around the urban area of ​​the city has hardly changed more than 8 centuries later ".

The objective of the project, which is already finalized and will be sent to recruitment in the coming days, is to recreate a route that, accompanying the original layout of the wall in a circular sense, serves to know part of the Medieval Murcia and the numerous vestiges They are still preserved.

The Paseo de la Muralla part of the Visitor Center of the Wall of Santa Eulalia, which will provide an introduction on the origins of the city of Murcia and can be contemplated an exhibition that will serve as the driving thread of the itinerary.

From there, the route begins in the remains of the Wall of the Santa Eulalia building, Cánovas del Castillo, Plaza Apostles, Plaza de Cardinal Belluga, Cathedral and Glorieta, ending this stretch in the Verónicas Wall.

The approximate route of this section is one kilometer.

To this main axis there are two other itineraries.

One is the route that connects Calle del Pilar, Sagasta, Santa Teresa, and thus, following the West-East direction, it would close the circular direction by going back to the Plaza de Santa Eulalia.

The other itinerary is transversal and includes spaces such as the Salzillo Museum, the City Museum, the San Esteban site (the Arrixaca Nueva suburb), the Alfonso X El Sabio Avenue or the Santa Clara Museum, which was Alcázar Menor , all spaces related to Medieval Murcia.

The defensive structure of the city

The total area of ​​spaces affected by this intervention is 2,067 m2, along a total itinerary of about 3 kilometers.

The planned investment budget is € 387,200 and the proposed execution period for the execution of the works included in this project is three months.

The original wall will be visible in some sections and in others it will be traced on the current surface, recreating the old defensive structure of the city that was built during the prosperous reign of the King Wolf, in the twelfth century.

In the interior of the Medina, and parallel and bordering the Wall, the most important activities of medieval Murcia followed one another and the most important buildings were established (the Aljama Mosque, the Alcazaba, mosques, baths, workshops, etc.).

The inheritance of this legacy remains in this axis with the buildings of greater artistic, architectural and cultural interest of the current Murcia.

Murcia Medieval: San Esteban, Santa Eulalia, Alfonso X, Santa Clara and Monteagudo

The mayor reported that "this intervention is added to the battery of actions of the comprehensive project 'Murcia Medieval', an action plan that will allow you to walk along a street from the 12th century to a level below zero at the San Esteban site;

walk among the canvases of the wall that surrounded the city in Santa Eulalia;

know the castles and defensive fortifications of the city in Monteagudo, walk through a medieval palace in Santa Clara and take a pedagogical and tourist tour that will remember the figure of the Wise King, Jaime I and the King Lobo, after the remodeling of the Paseo Alfonso X " .

"Medieval Murcia is an integral project of transformation of the city in the short, medium and long term, which recovers the medieval identity of Murcia - a substantial part of our roots as a people - and which offers a new model of cultural and historical tourism," he stressed. Crossbow.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia