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"Planes population of Caravaca de la Cruz (1811-1941)" is the title of the new exhibition at the Department of Culture of the City of Caravaca de la Cruz has opened in the old church of the Jesuits.

The exhibition will be open until January 9, Monday through Friday, from 17.30 to 20.30.

"In the morning we will make educational visits with students from secondary schools to learn about the evolution of the municipality along the history," according to the head of the department of Culture, Maria Cruz Perez, who has advanced to the exhibition will take to school Oróspeda Archivel Barranda and colleges and La Alumdema "

The exhibition consists of 8 panels of text and 36 reproductions ink drawings and original drawings preserved in the archives of the Army of Madrid, inthe Casadel Map of Murcia, the Municipal Archives of Caravaca de la Cruz, and 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 Capilladel Bath or Templete dela dela Santa Cruz (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. The coordinator of this exhibition and responsible for leading guided tours with schools, Indalecio Pozo, explained that "in the planes 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 centers , power grids, telephone, telegraph, etc. ".

The exhibition is completed, as pointed Indalecio Pozo, "with an annex dedicated to historic project to divert water from some areas of the field of Caravaca to the cities of Lorca, Murcia and Cartagena. Project started and fortunately for us, not completed, which traces its origins to the late 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 of the lordship of the House of 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 ".

Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz