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This morning the Director General of Books, Archives and Libraries, Francisco Giménez Gracia, and the Mayor of Torre Pacheco, Daniel García Madrid, has visited the reconstruction Fontes House to be converted to a new socio-cultural space that will house Museum of the City and Municipal Archives.
This action promoted by the Regional Government is aimed at recovering the historical and cultural heritage of the municipalities of the Community.
This new socio-cultural space will feature six galleries, historical archives, conference room, gardens for outdoor activities and cafeteria.
The reconstruction of the building, whose structure is already up, corresponding to a former residence of the Marquis of Torre-Pacheco built in the late nineteenth century, which will be converted into a socio-cultural space that will retrieve the image of the old building, integrating it into the environment urban population.
This action is framed within the program for the rehabilitation of buildings for public use, where it also intends to recover the historical - cultural patrimony of the municipalities of Murcia, working in those buildings considered of architectural value.
The new socio-cultural space will have a total area of 3,245 meters squared, of which 2,120 and 1,125 correspond to the building exteriors.
The property will be distributed over three floors, of which, on the ground floor are the reception area providing access to the museum's three exhibition areas, two inside and a large outdoor area.
The Historical Archives located in this plant will have a large area for storage of documents, and work and consultation rooms.
Also, the building will have a multipurpose conference room, cafeteria and a large garden for outdoor activities.
The first and second floor exhibition halls will have to serve on the museum display.
This action will involve a total investment of 2.5 billion euros, of which 682,530 euros will be funded by the Ministry of Public Works and Planning, € 450,000 by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the remainder by the City Council Torre-Pacheco
See a raft century AD Roman in construction of the museum and archive Fontes House
They have also appeared ceramic and metal debris from the Islamic period of great importance.
During construction of the Museum and Historical Archive of Torre-Pacheco appeared archaeological remains of several phases.
Materials and construction are remains from the second century
of Christ until the nineteenth century with the construction of the manor of Los Fontes.
The archaeological excavations have been directed by Federico Fuentes Miralles by Ferrovial Agroman, awarded the construction work.
Highlight of the remains found, a water storage pond with internal measures 2.50 m wide, 4.50 m long and 2.12 m deep.
The raft, which will be integrated into the construction site of the Museum, is filled with Roman mural paintings that will be extracted and restored shortly for future musealization in the building.
Also appears in Roman Republican (second century BC) a defensive ditch of a Roman military camp and possible post holes associated with it.
As to the Islamic period phase is a field of storage silos, and most notably one on the displayed materials at the end of s.
X and XI principles, which reflects a possible concealment, which stand for the quantity and quality irons.
A sword, two adzes, a horse can bite and a complex wooden artifact, grids and rings highlighted in an outfit consisting of jars, vials, Glazed bowl and basins in good condition.
Excavated materials from the excavation are in an impound lot pending the completion of works in the Museum and Historical Archive for exhibition in the Museum.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco
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