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The Mayor of Bullas, Maria Dolores Muñoz, and the Councillor for Culture, Antonio Jose Espin, recently held a meeting with the Director General of Cultural Heritage, Maria Comas, which presented a report detailing the state of deterioration in which is currently the Mansion Fuente Higuera, declared of Cultural Interest (BIC) in 1996.

"The passing years have affected much this stately Mansion, privately owned, which is in a deplorable and ruinous state at risk even collapse," said the councilman of Culture manifesting also having given a memory of the Local police Bullas demonstrating the vulnerability of this monument that has suffered looting and vandalism as painted on its facade.

The City Council said that after conservation works in 2012 the building and its surroundings are abandoned and he never performed tasks restoration and value.

Therefore they urge the Council to order the owners their duty to preserve, safeguard and protect it to ensure its integrity and prevent its destruction, in compliance with the Law on Cultural Heritage of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia and satisfying with orders execution of works and other measures necessary for their maintenance and upkeep, otherwise it could be required ultimately expropriation.

In this regard, the Director General was attentive to requests and assured that he will contact the company owner demanding that he fulfill its responsibility.

Revitalization of Historical Center Bullas

On the other hand, the meeting also discussed the revitalization of the historic center of Bullas that is immersed in a process of gradual depopulation, with uninhabited houses and empty shops.

"Aware of the possibilities offered by the center in enhancing tourism as a dynamic key sector of the local economy and prevent progressive deterioration" said the Mayor, "the Consistory ask the Director General collaboration to implement a conservation plan and adequacy of facades and funding for restoration and rehabilitation of historic and artistic "heritage.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Bullas