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Murcians will be able to learn about the history of Arrabal de la Arrixaca every Wednesday, at 7:00 p.m., until March 31 at the hands of researchers working on the field team.
The fixed lighting of the archaeological environment will be inaugurated tomorrow with an audiovisual tour that will be entitled 'San Esteban, the site under the light'.
The City Council will resume from next Wednesday, February 12, guided visits to the San Esteban Site with night tours.
The Councilor for Sustainable Mobility and Youth, Rebeca Pérez, together with the Councilor for Urban Development and Modernization of the Administration, José Guillén, today announced the new initiative to meet the Arrabal de la Arrixaca at night after the installation of fixed lighting by the different rooms of the archaeological complex.
In this way, the visits will begin on February 12 in the afternoon, at 7:00 p.m., and every Wednesday until March 31.
The tour will be one hour long and will have a maximum capacity of 50 people.
Murcia can discover some of the rooms of the archaeological site by the researchers themselves who are working on the field equipment since the beginning of the excavations.
To participate it is necessary to make a prior reservation on the website www.estrategiamurcia.es/proyectos-estrategicos/san-esteban/visitar-el-yacimiento, indicating the day on which you want to make the visit, contact details and people They will visit.
“More than 2,500 people have already traveled the Andalusian suburb in the guided tours, an initiative that must be remembered that is thanks to the collaboration agreement between the City of Murcia and the University of Murcia for scientific research, training and value of the Andalusian suburb, â€says Rebeca Pérez.
'Saint Stephen, the site under the light'
The fixed lighting of the San Esteban Site will be inaugurated tomorrow, Saturday, February 8, with a tour of light and sound that will show the history of the Arrabal de la Arrixaca.
Thus, through an audiovisual montage entitled 'San Esteban, the site under the light', Murcia can learn about the origins of the most important urban archeological framework in Europe of a medieval Arab city.
This tour of light and sound can be enjoyed tomorrow from the perimeter of the historic complex in five passes in the afternoon: 19.30, 20.00, 20.30, 21.00 and 21.30 hours, 10 minutes each.
The assembly will consist of a speech, written by the researcher Jorge Eiroa, about the history of the site that will be accompanied by moving lights of different colors and music.
Thus, visitors will know the most representative rooms of the archaeological environment, such as the large building known as 'Enclosure 1', the cemetery, the oratory and, the most recent, 'Enclosure 2'.
A respectful lighting system
The San Esteban Site will have a fixed lighting system, which will allow the streets to be reproduced as they were originally inside the suburb and to illuminate the areas with different colors.
In this way, for the accesses and the streets, an ultra low consumption LED luminaire has been installed, with which a flush lighting will be generated, sufficient to facilitate nighttime circulation and to signal the routes, as well as to make visible the streets of the perimeter of the deposit.
This system has been built in situ to achieve a perfect adaptation, will be perched on the ground, without any subjection to the ground and partially hidden.
Following the instructions of archaeologists, the areas where the excavations are located will be illuminated with LED projectors.
"This lighting system will not generate light pollution and will allow observation from its perimeter at night, whose route will be distinguished with lights of different colors," said Councilman José Guillén.
The City Council works in San Esteban, through the Department of Culture and Heritage Recovery, that of Sustainable Mobility and Youth and Urban Development and Modernization of the Administration, in coordination with municipal archaeologists and the team of researchers from the University of Murcia , directed by Jorge Eiroa.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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