Portal de Jumilla
www.portaldejumilla.com
Jumilla Mayor Francisco Abellán and Culture Councillor Joan Guardiola have appeared at a press conference to report on the grant award from the 1% Program of the Ministry Cultural Development for housing rehabilitation Vico Theatre.
Abellán has reported on the communication from the Minister of Development, on 4 November, after meeting the Joint Committee of the Ministry of Culture and Development for the joint action in the Spanish Historical Heritage through the Cultural 1% is has awarded a grant of 533,141 euros for the rehabilitation of the entire deck of Vico Theatre.
This would represent 75% of the total budget required, the other 25% has been applied to the region.
According to information provided by Juan Guardiola, the time of execution of the works are ten months, and after signing the draft agreement before year end, the beginning of the work is planned for early 2010.
This information was confirmed by the Delegation of the Government, which specifies that the intervention includes work for the maintenance of the building focused on the elimination of the pathological processes currently occurring in the theater (cracks, deformations, moisture, ...) and replacement of damaged structural elements with others of similar characteristics (such as new wood trusses in the central area).
It also proposes a change in external perception, proposing stucco finish to the elements of concrete blocks in the bodies added to the original building.
Also included is the restoration of the painted ceiling of the stalls.
The mayor has said "it is an important activity because it kept for many years a heritage loved and appreciated by all Jumillano."
This was made possible by the efforts of Councilwoman Jeanne Guardiola Culture, "which has had a constant interest and concern that has been able to prepare a project and gain the trust of the Ministry to grant the subsidy," he said Abellán .
For his part, Juan Guardiola has stated that "for years been discussing the need for this rehabilitation, financing unsuccessful.
In the end he will produce this performance, which is important for the maintenance of the building, because when the theater was restored 80 years was not performed any work on the deck, on the contrary, he bore more weight which has caused that over time the beams primitive has deteriorated to motivate even the closure of the Theatre open after taking the emergency action but not definitively resolve the problem. "
Councilwoman Culture has stated that "since 2002 has not stopped looking for funding from the Directorate General of Culture, through its various general managers without a positive conclusion the above action and these days and management has made with the Autonomous Region for if they provide the remaining 25%, because the subsidy is granted in the firm, otherwise it will be the only cultural project of 1% in the Autonomous Community does not provide this 25% co-financing. "
For its part, the highest local authority added that "the commitment to provide 25% of them had the Autonomous Region for the projects they presented to the Cultural 1% to Moratalla and Yecla.
However, Jumilla draft has been submitted directly from local government and the project has been approved, for what the mayor asks "what will happen with 25% of the money intended for Yecla and hope that this grant, which will be in the budgets of the Autonomous Community, we give the municipality of Jumilla.
Yecla mayor's criticism
Indeed, on the draft Yecla it was for the rehabilitation of the Church of San Francisco, the mayor criticized Francisco Abellán for "not having defended the draft as a senator Yecla.
In this regard, Jumilla mayor says he understands the anger of Juan Miguel Benedito with regional and state "by how little they do to their problems" and he says that "I could not defend the amendments in the Senate 2010 budget because it has not entered into the camera, so that the mayor of Yecla is deceiving the public. "
Abellán addition adds that "logically, I as mayor I will always defend cultural than 1% go to the project of my people."
"Another thing is that the common interests of the region of Altiplano, we join the two localities, employers, unions, politicians and civil society and linked to vindicate the services that are essential for the development of this region Yecla, Jumilla" completed indicating the mayor of Jumilla.
Vico Theatre
The Theatre opened in 1883, was built in an eclectic language with decorations from the classical language, plateresco or Renaissance.
It has three floors and a large stage to loom large for all the props.
In the interior, which features a neoclassical theater feature available with horseshoe-shaped plan, highlight the painted ceiling of the main hall on canvas made with bracing frame hanging from the straps of the wooden trusses that form the roof structure original stalls.
Throughout the twentieth century has undergone some significant interventions to adapt and maintain.
It has three levels: stalls and stalls, floor boxes and general grandstand or paradise.
The ceiling painting by Manuel Sanmartin, done on canvas, depicts the allegory of music and is one of the most significant elements of the building.
1% Cultural
Heritage Act 1985 provides that 1% of the total budget for the implementation of public works will fund the work of conservation and enrichment of the Spanish Historical Heritage or promoting creativity.
The performances are held in buildings of cultural interest or similar.
The calculation of this 1% is made on the basis of budget execution of all construction material in excess of 600,000 euros.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
Privacy policy
- Legal notice
- Cookies