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The people of Torre-Pacheco and enjoy again of which was one of the greatest symbols of identity of our city: the tower of his church, that, which the older, was like a lighthouse that stood upright in the middle of the field of Cartagena .
The event was chaired by the Mayor of Torre Pacheco, Daniel García Madrid, the parish priest in Torre-Pacheco, David Martinez Robles, Hon.
and Rt.
D.
José Manuel Lorca Planes, Bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena, and the Hon.
Mrs D ª.
María Reverte Pedro García, Minister of Presidency and Public Administration of the Autonomous Region of Murcia.
The opening ceremony was the first event to commemorate the 175 anniversary of the Constitution of the Municipality of Torre Pacheco in 1836.
Throughout the year carried out more acts as a pledge of civil flag, the opening of the New Town Hall, the recognition with a bronze medal to those groups in the municipality with 20 or more years old, among others.
The new tower has an innovative design.
By day, the result is a simple but emphatic geometry, a prism, continuous high, differing from the Church, with steep and decreasing forms, in order that both volumes are highlighted.
The material used are large blocks of stone Cabezo Gordo, alabaster (material in which the Virgin is made PASIC) in the top and clear glass on top, where you can see the old machinery of a clock.
At night, the tower looks like a halo of light begins to manifest inner significantly with the first cuts of alabaster and as this thickness loss is increasing in brightness until you reach the total transparency of the glass, running vertically to blur in the sky .
The physical implementation of the tower in the square is used to create a glass floor that expose all parts of the old conservative values of missing church, recently restored by the City for the exhibition "The legacy of Dean."
The original bells were relocated to the tower.
Tower History
In 1971 the town of Torre Pacheco, after failing to by the Department of Fine Arts, the landmark artistic statement to his church for more than three centuries old, attended the demolition of the temple, by order of a Bishop argued that pastoral reasons.
Half the town was divided between those who agreed with the demolition and no.
Subsequently raised the Church today but the draft was not included the construction of a new tower.
In 2002 the Diocese of Cartagena, through Our Lady of the Rosary Parish in Torre-Pacheco decided to hold a competition for selection by a jury of a study to define the new tower of the parish church next the site of the Church today, to mark the fourth centenary of the parish.
This contest was designed to provide the principal town of the tower that the town historically identified with the passage of time and human intervention rather unfortunate disappeared unreasonably cityscape.
For months, the Mayor of Torre Pacheco and former parish priest, D.
Pedro López Jiménez, visited the companies in the municipality requesting their cooperation to resolve the historic debt, and getting a positive response in all cases.
Moreover, several villagers raised funds by selling institutional gifts, thereby making the bell tower of Torre-Pacheco is now a reality.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco
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