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The city was named Posthumous, posthumously, to the sculptor José Sánchez Lozano.
The Almudí Palace today hosted for the first time the institutional event of the Day of the City of Murcia, a celebration commemorating the anniversary of the constitution of the Council of Murcia - the medieval antecedent of the City Council - by King Alfonso X El Sabio In 1266 and by which the awarding of honors and distinctions has been carried out with the awarding of the Gold Medals to the Illustrious Official Association of Physicians of the Region and to the Cofradía del Refugio and the appointment of the City's Adoptive Son to Sculptor José Sánchez Lozano, posthumously.
In his speech, José Ballesta said that "to speak of the identity of Murcia is to make it the singularities of a people who, over the centuries, has been a crossroads, a crossroads of civilizations and land borders.
It is possible that the personality of the Murcian emerges as a consequence of the amalgam of the surrounding towns and that we have as a mark of identity the mestizaje, a historical synthesis and a unique cultural personality.
"Murcia is the product of a long past of efforts and generosity.
Let us strive to keep alive some forms of coexistence and civilization, that peculiar humanism in Murcia in which all our particularisms converge and which is so characteristic of the authentic Murcian identity that distinguishes us and equals us all, "he proclaimed.
Concert homage to the songs of Alfonso X
The institutional act was enlivened by the musician Eduardo Paniagua, who paid a tribute to the King Wise, through a selection of songs that narration happens in Murcia, as the one of La Arrixaca and the oath before Santa Maria de Murcia, as well as The one of 'Los seven joys' and 'The Corsairs'.
Also, the Orfeón Fernández Caballero interpreted the 'Coplas murcianas' of the teacher Massotti Littel, and 'The hymn to Murcia', that closed the act that attended different groups and social agents of the city in the Hall of the Columns of the Almudí Palace
The institutional event took place on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the granting of the Privilegio Rodado to the city of Murcia by Alfonso X on May 14, 1266. The mayor emphasized "the extraordinary personality of the King Wise and his inexhaustible generosity with The city in which he ordered his heart to be buried. "
Gold Medal Award and Appointment of Foster Child
The Gold Medal was awarded to the Illustrious Official Association of Physicians of the Region and to the Refuge Brotherhood.
In addition, he was named Posthumous Son of the city, posthumously, to the sculptor Jose Sánchez Lozano.
"120 years of brilliant and continuous services are fulfilled by the College of Physicians to the society of Murcia.
Illustrious names of medicine have held their presidency to the present, first president in the history of the College, "said the mayor, who valued this institution as" an effective instrument for advice on training and planning of health resources Of the Region of Murcia ".
He also received the Gold Medal of the Refuge Brotherhood and his 'Procession of Silence', which celebrates its 75th anniversary.
"Murcia is transformed on Holy Thursday.
The streets become silent, hidden.
75 years of Silence on Holy Thursday, history and tradition, which is the deposit of the experience that conforms our identity, "said the mayor.
The title of Adoptive Son, posthumously, was granted to José Sánchez Lozano, "a relevant figure of the Murcian school of imagery, a sculptor sublimated by the classicism of the court of Murcia, the rubric of the best baroque that projects the simplicity of everyday life" .
During the 66 years that he lived in Murcia, Sánchez Lozano carried out an important work of maintenance and conservation of works related to the sculptor Francisco Salzillo or Nicolás de Bussy and was a great connoisseur of those also made by Baglietto or Antonio Dupar.
Restored.
In addition it replaced those that were damaged or destroyed during the Civil War, returning to Murcia works much appreciated
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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