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- The municipal training request that the file be reopened in the Ministry of Culture, which already in 2001 considered that the protection as BIC was appropriate for this monument

- Now Murcia justifies its proposal in the technical reports of the Royal Academy of History, the Royal Academy of San Fernando and UNESCO-ICOMOS, who support this statement as a Cultural Interest

NOW MURCIA proposes that the Old Prison be declared a Property of Cultural Interest (BIC), with the double purpose that none of its parts be overthrown or altered improperly and that the uses that are given are consistent with its historical, cultural and Art.

The municipal formation will take to the next plenary a motion for the City Council to request the General Directorate of Cultural Property of the Autonomous Community to initiate the file to declare the Provincial Prison of Murcia as BIC, "to prevent the destruction or decontextualisation of the vestiges of The history of this building ".

Councilor Angeles Micol emphasizes that "the BIC declaration must be produced before the awarding of the project for the rehabilitation of the building, which the City Council intends to carry out by the end of this year, as it should be the historical, artistic and cultural values ​​of that BIC statement, And not others, that determine the suitability of the project to be carried out ".

The mayor states that "if there were historical and cultural reasons for the declaration as BIC of the Old Jail in 1981, when the file was first filed, as well as in 1998, when it was launched a second time, and when in 2000 UNESCO and the Autonomous Community were in favor of such a statement, it is even more justified that today BIC's statement is requested. "

In this sense, Micol points out that "in these almost 20 years since the last opening has taken place an increased need to conserve the few historical buildings for civil use that we have in the city of Murcia, where in recent times have been Destroyed a large number of them (a score of PECHA properties - Special Plan of the Historical Center), leaving few nowadays, and only four public buildings declared BIC with category of monument.

The Councilor points out that the Cultural Heritage Law of the Region of Murcia "establishes that it is sufficient to make the BIC statement with the existence of the favorable report of an advisory body" and puts in value "the existence of repeated reports of the Royal Academy of San Fernando and the Royal Academy of History, as well as UNESCO and the Autonomous Community itself, to which is added the request of the College of Architects, presented at the time, to begin the declaration.

Micol points out that "since the agreement between the City of Murcia and the Ministry of Finance in December 2013, by means of which the Old Jail building became municipal property, nothing has been done for the rehabilitation of this property It has become clear that the protection granted in the Catalog of Buildings and Protected Elements of the PGOU is not enough to prevent its constant degradation and collapse, nor does it guarantee that it can not Be the object of projects as decontextualizing as the one intended to carry out the Tax Agency in the year 2006. "

The mayor of Now Murcia recalls that "we are at a time when it will decide what will be the destination of the building of the former Provincial Prison of Murcia, a destination that will depend on the project that is chosen in a few months to be If we want to take the steps that guarantee that the different elements of the building will be scrupulously respected and that the uses that the chosen project gives the real estate will not lose sight of In view of its historical and cultural values, will be a very convenient measure to be declared BIC. "

Source: Ahora Murcia