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The rehabilitation budget exceeds 10 million euros and includes the recovery of several rooms emblematic

Awesome.

This is the term most used by hundreds of citizens who have attended this afternoon the reopening of the splendid Royal Casino de Murcia, a moving ceremony attended by the Mayor of the City, Miguel Ángel Cámara, and prominent personalities from the cultural, political and economic of the region.

The works have been performed assuming the integral rehabilitation of the building and, therefore, range from the building foundation where there were problems of stability, structural pathologies repair and renovation of all the facilities necessary adjustments to the functional and Accessibility and restoration of all finishes and decorative elements and artwork, paintings, sculptures, lamps, furniture etc..

This has involved a thorough, extensive and complex multidisciplinary technical and artistic intervention.

The works have been executed by the consortium formed by Construcciones Villegas and Antonio García Rico and have had a budget of 10.2 million euros.

Thus, the Murcia recover such emblematic areas of the front rooms to the street Tatters and the Ballroom, which has made a great job of building and restoration of the paintings and decorations.

The current building of the Casino is the result of the juxtaposition of a series of building bodies that have been added throughout its 160 year history, focusing on its construction and enlargements the most qualified architects, painters, sculptors and artists Murcia.

National Historic Monument in 1983, had undergone several operations to restore or partial consolidation in recent years, highlighting the latest activities carried out under the direction of the architect Juan Antonio Molina Serrano, who also produced a "Feasibility Study and Plan Stages for the restoration of the Casino de Murcia "in which he first addressed the need for integrated action to rehabilitate the building.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia