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Caravaca de la Cruz plays an important role in the development of content and exposure, due to her special place of attraction for religious communities during the Middle Ages
The President of the Autonomous Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, today inaugurated the exhibition 'Mansions of Greatness.
The Spanish convent city ', which is displayed in the Episcopal Palace Murcia and shows "the uniqueness of the history of Spanish monastic life, which led to the realization of the great masterpieces of thought, culture and art written in each and each of its expressions. "
The exhibition will remain open until January 30, 2011, exhibits the defining features of the convent experience in Spain, in the town of Caravaca de la Cruz was especially development and its impact on everyday life and the image of the traditional city.
"The mysterious and unknown Spanish convents and monasteries, their life and culture is the theme of the exhibition," said Valcarcel.
The president of the Community, which was accompanied by the Minister of Culture, Pedro Alberto Cruz, and the president of Cajamurcia, Carlos Egea said that this exhibition reminds the visitor that the convents and monasteries, along with the functions of religious and spiritual, also met with the important task of being the main refuge of culture, science and the written legacy of classical antiquity. "
An extensive collection of knowledge "on which, during the Middle Ages, was to forge good part of the cultural, scientific and philosophical of modern and contemporary Europe," he said Valcárcel.
The exhibition, curated by Christopher Belda, Professor of Art History at the University of Murcia, and designed by architect Paul Bridge, has been organized by the Cajamurcia Foundation and sponsored by the Foundation, the Autonomous Community of Murcia and City Hall, with the cooperation of the Diocese of Cartagena.
The route covers an area of 400 m2 on the first floor of the Palacio Episcopal and gathers more than a hundred pieces of great masters such as Murillo, Zurbaran, Ribera, Alonso Cano, Claudio Coello, Miguel Angel Houasse, Francisco Pradilla, Gregorio Fernández, Alonso and Pedro de Mena, Francisco Salzillo and Luis Salvador Carmona, among others.
Jewelry, musical instruments and the Terrarum Orbis, 1573 Civitates
To these names join pieces of jewelry, musical instruments, pottery and ceramics from the National Heritage, the Prado Museum, the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, the National Library, the cathedrals of Seville and Valencia as well as churches , convents and monasteries.
Also known publications such as 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', by George Bryan in 1573, and 'Manuscript Raymundi Lulli', 1723, preserved at the Monastery of Montserrat.
The exhibition has been at Caravaca de la Cruz in the heart of this particular universe, because of its uniqueness as a city that was transformed, by the continued influx of pilgrims, a place of attraction for religious communities, promote their presence in their own homes or in new emerging areas of urban growth.
To this end, 'Abodes of Greatness.
Spanish monastery town 'is divided into three sections that provide a framework for this imaginary journey:' For some walkers paths', referring to social action, charity and education of the monasteries' Aquesta celestial sphere ', the convent church, their shares, and its singularities, and Hides life, "about the experience of living in seclusion.
'Mansions of grandeur', is said Valcárcel, "a wonderful opportunity to travel to the past and know first hand the enchanting world on your walls that enclosed monasteries and convents to admire in our region sublime masterpieces."
And all this "with the great incentive to do so in the Episcopal Palace Murcia, recovered to the general public on the occasion of an exhibition called from the beginning to repeat the resounding success of previous proposals Footprints Project."
Source: CARM
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