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The City of Caravaca de la Cruz has scheduled open houses at the Casa-Museo de los Caballos del Vino until 4 December.
For two weeks, entry is free, with opening hours from 10.00 to 14.00 and from 16.00 to 19.00 hours (except Sunday afternoon that closed), so that all may know caravaqueños this new museum space dedicated the celebration candidate to be declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
The Open starts today, Friday, at 19.00 and 21.00 the Thuillier hosts a concert of "The Parrandboleros" known Murcia group dedicated the bolero "Spring Horse" at the Festival of Wine draft horses.
Admission to the concert is free while the capacity of the theater.
The House of the Wine Horses has undergone a comprehensive rehabilitation project, with a grant of 290,000 euros from the "Leader" assistance from the European Fund for Rural Development.
This new space showcases the history and evolution of this unique celebration through a collection of parts used to harness the horses since the early twentieth century to the present, complemented with various audiovisual recreating the most significant moments of this festive event and anthropological culture.
The museum is divided into several areas: Lobby, living the Wine Horses, temporary exhibition hall and living tradition.
Among the museum's functions also include the implementation of entrepreneurial actions to organize related activities equestrian world.
This has a hall for temporary exhibitions space that will be offered to different populations held parties where the horse has a relevant role.
One of the most iconic palatial town houses
The project has pertimitido rehebilitación executed one of the most emblematic manor houses of the city, dating from the late seventeenth century, recover the original state of their facades, and the reform of their decks, interior and exterior.
The current facade was hidden behind a plaster and plaster painted in ocher.
His original appearance is part of the civil Baroque, with the characteristics of the Region of Murcia features.
The façade mixed rig, brick masonry plastered with panels.
The building is organized in three levels, following a characteristic building type in the area.
The existing balconies on the first floor with its curved path and wrought iron, the other bars, the woodwork, the badge of sandstone, the niche of the Virgin Immaculate and many other details remain the taste of her splendid past.
The house belonged to the Musso-Muñoz Melgarejo family whose noble shield is on the main façade, later moving to the Giron family.
He lived and died Maria Giron and Font de Mora, renowned character caravaqueña society of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
It is housed in the old town, declared a historic artistic in 1985, specifically in the street Gregorio Javier, one of the most important areas in the urban fabric of the city that the Church of the Savior on the west, and where other stately homes rose belonging to noble families during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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