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The Mayor of Jumilla, received this morning in the city to Dona Maria Luisa Lopez Ruiz, Secretary General of the Ministry of Culture, Francisco Giménez García, Director General of Cultural Assets, and the Head of Museums and Exhibitions, Don Lettuce Manuel Galindo.

Upon receipt visited by the Councillor for Tourism, Maria Dolores Fernandez, Arsenal ships will be built on Wine Interpretation Centre.

The rehabilitation works of these ships, engaged early in the century, to be factory esparto, strategic sector in Jumilla, be executed under the LEADER approach helps with a budget amounting to a total of 858,000 euros.

Through this project the building will remain very significant for Jumilla, culturally, economically and touristically, especially important for tourism through wine tourism.

This project represents the importance of agriculture and wine, as a strategic sector, culture and tourism.

The Mayor, Enrique Jimenez, has qualified in this respect that, "it is difficult to attract tourism without infrastructure," especially in Jumilla, a gift of wine tradition is one of our greatest potential and should be harder, once we this important facility.

The Mayor recalled that had already begun the procurement procedure, which occurred over twenty offers, of which three had been reckless low, which meant a delay in the process, proceeding to an application for an extension of three months, so the process is in the hearing process at the expense of the reports of the relevant technical services, to produce the final award.

The visit of the technicians of the Ministry has basically been studying the formulas so that you can materialize the Regional Museum of Wine in Jumilla with their help, but it is currently difficult to realize, as have not started the rehabilitation works .

Actions may materialize when the work is complete, although they have shown much interest in it.

Enrique Jimenez said that "the project is expected to be completed before the end of the legislature."

Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla