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The mayor of Jumilla, Juana Guardiola, the Councilor for Works and Urbanism, Francisco González, and the director of the works, Plácido Cañadas, presented this morning the emergency works carried out at the Casa Pérez de los Cobos, which have recently finished.
The action consisted in the cleaning, underpinning and de-scrap of the house, as well as the timely replacement of the roof "with the objective of achieving minimum conditions of security and stability avoiding, until the final restoration is done, the action of the Rain that enters through the cracks and landslides, "explained Plácido Cañadas in detail.
The works have had a cost of 102,800 euros and have been carried out by the company Lorquimur.
The next step is to undertake later the complete rehabilitation of the building.
Juana Guardiola pointed out that "a preliminary project has been commissioned, which will be presented to the call for aid of 1.5% of the Ministry of Development, whose term ends in the middle of next August, which could finance up to 75% of the The cost of it has been calculated around 1,300,000 euros, so that without subsidies could not be assumed.
To meet the remaining 25%, funding will also be requested from one party, in this case through the Autonomous Community.
The proposal is to convert the Casa Pérez de los Cobos is a space dedicated to the history of music, taking advantage of different rooms such as exhibition rooms or didactic, cafeteria and shop.
"The purpose is to give tourist use and revitalize the historic set of Jumilla, even serving to explain the urban development of the city," said the mayor.
Casa Pérez de los Cobos is a Renaissance palace from the late 16th century, also known as Casa Honda del Barón del Solar or Cutil manor.
Chronologically this would be the solar house of the mayorazgo of Pérez de los Cobos that happened by succession to the Cutillas-Towers and later to its descendants the barons of the Manor of Espinosa.In different moments it served of house of habitation and house and barn house.
He also hosted the editorial staff and administration of the newspaper La Opinión.
It was raised by Francisco Perez de los Cobos, "El Rico" and by his wife Mariana de Cutillas-Torres.
It has a Mannerist style cover, Castilian grilles and coat of arms, as well as a Renaissance courtyard, among the few that have reached today.
The last action done on her was done by the teacher Julián Santos Carrión, in the middle of the XX century to recover it as housing.
It was declared a Property of Cultural Interest (BIC) in 1998. In 2009 it became municipal property when acquired by the City of Jumilla through an exchange.
In October of 2015 the Hispania Nostra Association, in its work in defense of the heritage conservation, included it in the Red List by the state of abandonment of the property.
The emergency works carried out during 2017 will allow you to leave that alert list.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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