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The Director General of Planning and Housing, Antonio Navarro, said that these works "can retrieve an important part of regional and local culture", because it is a XVIII century building has been "witnessed important economic activities for the municipality"
The property is located in the historic old town and have a new entrance to the current House-Museum and accessibility improvements
The Ministry of Public Works and Planning, through the Directorate General of Planning and Housing, is running in Bullas rehabilitation works of the Ethnographic Museum-House 'Don Pepe Marsilla', an eighteenth century building which will house new facilities the town council.
The Director General of Planning and Housing, Antonio Navarro, said that this action is recovered "a significant part of regional and local culture as it is a building that has witnessed important economic activities for the municipality, as olive oil processing or work in wine. "
The works on this property, which is in the range of goods of interest to the municipality, are conducted on a total of 730 square meters, where they perform tasks of flooring, siding, carpentry, partitions, replacement of roofs and upgrading the facade, as well as water and electricity facilities.
The building on which it is involved is located in the historic old town, near the main access to downtown, such as the Avenida de Murcia, behind the parish church and a few meters from the Plaza of Spain, where it lies City Hall and the municipal garden.
After construction, the building will include a new entrance to the current House-Museum, down the street Rosario.
You can make accessibility improvements to the construction of new stairs and elevator placement for up to nine people.
This action, with a grant of 292,320 euros, is placed within the program of rehabilitation of buildings for public use, with which the Department collaborates with local government in the conservation of those buildings that make up the cultural heritage of the region.
A building history
The original building consisted of a rectangular space, with basement, ground floor, first and second, opening the main facade to the street from Rosario, and later the courtyard of the house, now popularly known as the 'Garden of Don Pepe '.
Throughout its history the house underwent various expansions defining the current form 'U' which now has housing.
By the year 1900 he conducted the final remodeling of the old building and the house was divided into two zones, while between 2006 and 2007, some were rehabilitated for use as a house museum.
"This is an old mansion dating from the eighteenth century that belonged to Jose Marsilla Melgares de Aguilar, mayor of the village on two occasions in which he was connected to major projects in the history of Bullas and the arrival of telephone, telegraph, electric light or the construction of the Asylum and Hospital for Aged in the Barrio de La Cruz, which represents a landmark in the history and architectural heritage of Bullas, "said Antonio Navarro.
Source: CARM
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