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The mayor requested the restoration of the image of 'La Dolorosa', from the school of Salzillo, to resume the recovery plan of the imagery and heritage of the Holy Week in Caravaca that in recent years had no continuity
The mayor of Caravaca de la Cruz, José Francisco García, has held a meeting with the general director of Cultural Assets of the Autonomous Community, Rafael Gómez, in which various issues related to the conservation of artistic and historical heritage in buildings have been addressed cataloged as an Asset of Cultural Interest, specifically in the Basilica de la Vera Cruz and in the parish of El Salvador.
The meeting was also attended by the older sister of the Royal and Illustrious Brotherhood of Vera Cruz, Mari Carmen López, as well as the Town Planning, Mónica Sánchez, and Cultura, Juan Manuel de León.
The improvement and conservation actions proposed - both in real estate and in movable interior goods, such as imagery - have been valued by technicians from the Ministry of Culture who have also traveled to Caravaca to meet the request of the Consistory and the Brotherhood.
José Francisco García has positively assessed the predisposition of Culture to launch actions and highlighted the need to continue advancing in the protection and improvement of the large number of buildings and historical-artistic pieces of Caravaca.
"The objective of the city council is to transfer the rest of the administrations the needs we have and knock on as many doors as necessary to continue materializing projects," he said.
One of the actions demanded by the mayor has been the restoration of the image of the Dolorosa of the parish of El Salvador, "for its artistic qualities, for its cultural and social values ​​and for presenting a poor state of conservation that distorts its value and accelerates its deterioration. "
"In recent years the City Council has not performed any restoration action and Caravaca de la Cruz has one of the best collections of baroque imagery in the Region of Murcia," said José Francisco García.
During the 2000s, most of these images of the so-called School of Caravaca were restored within an ambitious program of intervention in the local heritage that initiated the City of Caravaca, along with some of the thrones of the Brotherhoods.
One of the few images that was not intervened and that still presents an unfortunate action carried out on it several decades ago is La Dolorosa from the parish of El Salvador.
The obvious quality of this image (distorted by the inadequate intervention it suffered) and some documentary evidence suggest to the specialists that it could be the work of Salzillo himself, a fact that, if it could be demonstrated, would be extraordinary news for the heritage of Caravaca and for Murcian art in general.
The Director General of Cultural Assets of the Autonomous Community, Rafael Gómez, has taken advantage of this visit to show the full support of the Regional Government for the nomination of the Wine Horses to Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO and collaborate on a series of actions that will see the light during the next months.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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