The act will begin at 9:00 p.m. and during it the exhibition ‘Ethereal Walls’ will be inaugurated, showing the rehabilitation of the first building
The Murcia City Council has organized a party, which will begin this Thursday at 9:00 p.m., to celebrate the official opening of the rehabilitated building of what was the administrative precinct of the old Provincial Prison of Murcia, a prison that was inaugurated in June 1929 and that closed its doors in 1981.
During the act, in which various actions have been scheduled, the exhibition ‘Ethereal Walls’ will be inaugurated, showing, with extensive documentation of images, the first phase of the recovery process of the well-known as Cárcel Vieja, which became municipal property in 2013. The exhibition is scheduled to be open to the public from Monday, June 27, and can be visited until next September.
The works lasted for a little over a year and a half and, based on the ‘Ethereal Walls’ project by IH-Arquitectos, winners of the competition and who have directed the first phase of the recovery, have focused on the 891 square meters of the building , recovered for the city of Murcia, in whose work almost two million euros were involved (half with financing from Feder funds and the rest with municipal funds).
The building contains three exhibition rooms (one of them, on the second floor, which will serve as an occasional assembly hall), a store-exhibition and a cafeteria, both on the first floor and the restaurant with direct access from the street which overlooks the Plaza Circular and adjoins the Post Office building, where there will be a terrace.
From now on, the second phase of the rehabilitation will begin, focused on the second large block of the center, the main building, the one that contained the cells and the interior patios for the prisoners. In total, 3,600 square meters, and a planned investment of 7.5 million euros, for whose execution the Murcia City Council hopes to receive help from European funding through the ‘Next Generation’.
It is expected that next week the Consistory will announce the details of these works, whose technical project has been drawn up by the municipal developer Urbamusa, also in charge of its management.
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