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Public works and infrastructure (1811-1941) "] | Sample Caravaca old planes, between the time of the war of independence and the start of Franco, in the old church of the Jesuits, until January 9, 2015 |

The exhibition consists of 8 panels of text and 36 reproductions of drawings and original ink drawings stored in several files of the Army in Madrid, in the House of Map of Murcia, Caravaca Municipal Archive, plus some private collections in our city.

It also includes large-format photographic prints of the City of the then town of Caravaca (Jaime Bort, 1747) and the Chapel of the bathroom or Temple of the Holy Cross (José López, 1762) copies.

Through this selected repertoire is possible to analyze the urban development of the city of Caravaca de la Cruz, especially following the opening of the Gran Vía in 1921, at that time called Primo de Rivera.

In the drawings appear localized civil and religious outstanding public buildings, industries, roads, plus major public infrastructure such as the route of the old network of drinking water, production facilities, power grids, telephone, telegraph, etc.

The exhibition is completed with an annex dedicated to historic water diversion project from some areas of Campo de Caravaca (Archivel, Barranda, Benablón, Singla, Caneja, Navares) to the cities of Lorca, Murcia and Cartagena.

Project initiated and, fortunately for us, not over, which traces its origins to the Middle Ages and reached its peak in the middle years of the eighteenth century, then including the transfer to the rivers Castril and Guardal in the lands Manor House Alba.

In this draft drawn at the end of the reign of Felipe V, had a pointed stake the famous engineer Sebastian Feringa, who came to qualify the whole of this water project as one of the most important to realize in

Spain.

Although the settlement and the walls of Caravaca de la Cruz is probably date back to the XI-XII centuries and being certain the existence of a consolidated Cerro del Castillo during the second half of the fifteenth century village, the town of Villa did not enjoy graphing known until much later, namely until the biennium 1810-1811, when the Spanish military lifted the first sketch of the perimeter and surroundings, specifying in particular the situation of the roads, hills and surrounding hills, along the route of Argos river.

Actually, surveyors Third Army claimed not make a real plane of the Villa with its streets, blocks and main buildings defined as a sufficient scale, but rather have a rough drawing of the urban boundary and the main access to, come the case, ensure their defense and supplies, including main places to safeguard the castle-fortress, where he worshiped Santa Vera Cruz, the largest church in El Salvador and the public square.

Between 1890-1895 the local Consistory commissioned the first plans Population themselves where it already appears drawn the city and immediate gardens, churches, chapels and monasteries, the Plaza de Toros built starting in 1880, the Glorieta, discovered several sections of Mairena ditches and Las Fuentes, the closest to the city center and the two roads built hitherto hydraulic devices, as were those of Cehegín-Murcia and La Puebla de Don Frederic-Huéscar.

In these first local cartographic work played a prominent role Don Antonio de Béjar and Ciller, civil engineer and entrepreneur who lives in Caravaca.

In 1926 a new city plan, more detailed than previous is done, the work of local engineer Don Angel Blanc and Perera, which already includes the main expansion of the city with the layout and opening of the Gran Vía, plus some remembered buildings on its banks as the Gran Teatro Cinema or the Ford garage.

In 1932-1933 a new city plan is drawn at 1: 2,000, this time thanks to the initiative of the State through the Directorate General of the Geographic and Cadastral Institute.

The five leaves contain consisting artistic reflection of town, especially the statements that the surveyor Joaquín Bayou dedicated to San Francisco-Quarter Calvary Road and Moratalla-Los Andenes.

3000 also includes all public, administrative services and infrastructure, both urban and peripheral phone schools, drinking water reservoirs, power grids and: Finally, in 1941 the General Plan of the city of Caravaca scale 1 is performed , updating the mapping of the Republic.

This plane will remain in effect almost until the early sixties.

Source: Agencias