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The intervention foresees the rehabilitation of 445 m2, the construction of 243 m2 of new construction and refurbishment of 553 m2 plot and road
The garden, which will be equipped with palm trees, an area reserved for installing arcaded workshops of artisans, who can show how they work and
Mayor House is pleased to recover the oldest building in the hamlet and at the same time, promoting the craft of Bethlehem, one of the biggest hallmarks of Bacons Bridge
The recovery of architectural and historical heritage, and roots Bacons Bridge artisans will be present in a single project: the rehabilitation of the Clock Tower for the creation of the House of Bethlehem.
The Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, and the Minister of Universities, Business and Research, Salvador Marín, presented this morning the project, set in a collaboration agreement reached between the two administrations.
Under the agreement, Urbamusa is responsible for its drafting and recruitment, possibly before next April, "while the action is endowed with 1 million euros from the Ministry and the Energy Management Agency of the Region of Murcia for funding.
The Clock Tower, located at Tower Lane, has an area of some 635 square meters, on a plot of 1,175 square meters.
Hailed by the General Plan with protection level 2, the rehabilitation must respect their spatial configuration and basic structures and the most important decorative elements of the facades: the heraldic shield carved in stone with the arms of the Ayllón and crowned by the cross Calatrava, and the sundial.
Also conditioned the rear garden.
Now planned intervention, whose works will last for 18 months, provides for the rehabilitation of 445 square meters and the extension of the original building and actions in the backyard in another 243 square meters.
These squares are 688 meters to add another 553 meters of the conditioning of the plot and road, which gives a scope of 1,242 square meters.
A garden ready for sun and rain
According to project architect Guillermo Jiménez Barn, the main door of the tower, under the coat of arms, will give way to an entrance hall double height, from where you start the tour of the exhibition rooms located on ground floor swaths and floor, used in his time for silkworm breeding farm or warehouse.
In the upper row and exhibitions raise ground floor is reserved for the permanent exhibition.
Then you will enter into a screening room to view a documentary standing on the craft and tradition of the crib.
The tour will continue the expansion area of the building that will house an exhibition hall airy, visually open the back garden through a large window.
In the garden, which will be relocated or replanted all originally-existing palm trees will create an exhibition area outside, with a colonnaded area where you will install a drop-down cubicles where each craftsman will set up a workshop and show how they work, or where you can take practical classes to schools and other groups about the craft activity.
Its range would enable a monumental nativity scene or make the traditional Christmas assembly, even under a tent.
Furthermore, the placement of a canvas awning sliding ensure the use of the garden in rain or strong sun.
This is a solar awning, fitted with a card installed photovoltaic power generation could be used to supply the museum or at least its facade.
Is a prototype that will work to ensure their profitability and efficiency.
On the other hand on the first floor of the old building will be located, in addition to the temporary exhibition area, auditorium or conference room and reserve a space for cultural association Friends of Bethlehem.
The oldest building
Clock Tower or Tower of the Ayllón is the oldest building Bacons Bridge.
Popular Baroque style, was built in the mid-eighteenth century as a family home of a noble family and is currently municipal property.
In addition to recovering the architectural heritage, the agreement between the city of Murcia and the Ministry of Universities, Business and Research will also recover the importance of crafts as a component of the Nativity sociocultural Bacons Bridge, creating an ideal medium for the maintenance of the signs local identity.
The establishment of the Bethlehem House help to support the modernization, business structure, promotion and training of new artisans.
And it will do in a district whose first craftsman, Antonio Galán Rex, was installed in the workshop of "Uncle Italiano" in 1930.
Since then, the tradition has been strengthened so that today Bacons Bridge is known as the "cradle of Bethlehem."
The new museum will create a recovery area and ethnographic, cultural, tourist and historic town.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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