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Alhama City Council has received this afternoon a large donation of journalist alhameño Mateo Garcia, and various models of great value of José Cerón.
The building on the positive reception from this latest three permanent exhibitions thanks to the generous donation of two alhameños.
The mayor of Alhama, José Espadas and the councilman of Culture, Juan Romero, signed the minutes on the collections become all alhameños.
Next, it has opened a show of works donated.
The City Council, this heritage begins with a great job and dissemination of study materials for developing and disseminating knowledge, through guides, arranged visits, etc.
Mateo García Martínez
The sample of the first floor consists of a collection of seashells on a sample of images from Alhama de Murcia from the collection that gradually has been donating to the City Photo Gallery for a total over eight hundred pictures between originals and copies with a chronology of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The images presented on the first floor of the Granary, almost fifty photographs, are the most representative of your file, and also presents some original photos of the collection that stand out for their exceptional value.
Through them, between memory and nostalgia, as was the Alhama the past, our parents, our grandparents, etc, as were its festivals, its streets and squares, the most important events, our castle, ultimately, the daily life of a village in the valley of Guadalentín called Alhama de Murcia, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Mateo Garcia was born in Alhama de Murcia.
Online publications and collaborated on over thirty-five years, leaves Monday for Alicante and Murcia, Alicante and Information Sports and in the newspaper La Verdad, and in various publications.
For thirty years, until his retirement, was a correspondent of Radio Nacional of Spain in the Valley Guadalentín.
A tireless traveler and collector, are striking their files of photographs, slides, trading cards, coins, stamps, etc. ..
He has published several books of history, character and people of Totana, Mazarron and Puerto.
Alhama Alhama edited on: a century of history in a hundred images and Alhama press accounts.
Among his many hobbies, one of the best known in the collector of seashells.
Has gathered throughout his life an impressive collection of seashells, thanks to your generosity, we can enjoy in this room forever, he has donated 840 pieces of which are displayed 289.
Both the diversity and the origin makes this collection will have a great uniqueness that Matthew himself detailed below us.
José Cerón
For his part, José Cerón Munuera has yielded four major models of boats.
Alhameño it has been working 20 years in model boats, especially sailboats time, historical and generic drugs.
Has conducted several workshops in the type of boat in the city of Alhama and has made several exhibitions in Mazarrón and Alhama, having exposed a portion of their ships in the Naval Museum in Cartagena.
He also donated one of his models to the Spanish Association Against Cancer of Murcia.
In this case, as permanent assignment are set out in the Granary building models of ships "San Ildefonso", "a Galeazzo", a "Clipper" and "a schooner."
San Ildefonso
Goleta in 1833.
The use of advertisements in the Spanish navy was quite similar to that made the other marine, communication tasks of the squadron, postal functions and missions of exploration.
The strength of these boats machines between 70 and 180 Hp.
The San Ildefonso, for message functions, shipped 12 pieces.
These guns breech of 80 mm.
Mounted on the bridge deck.
As its name on San Ildefonso tree a full rig schooner, with bent sticks and middle class.
The only slightly angled fireplace also rose nearly half a length, with protective drums on two wheels.
The galliass
Towards the end of the fifteenth century the ships were beginning to venture into the Atlantic.
The Mediterranean galley with oars could not sail in the stormy sea and had no acceptable carrying capacity, so did the "Galeazzo, a type of frigate equipped with oars.
These ships were the first who disposed of guns fired by holes in the edges, rather than make on them.
The Galeazzo disappeared in the eighteenth century.
THE CLIPPER
The name "Clipper" derives from the verb "To Clip" (cutting the wind) of a-cut sailing time, and was attributed to the last and most perfect project resulting from the whole evolution of the sailing ships.
The Clipper was born in the United States around 1820 when the American merchant class began to realize that the future of their trade was in the sea.
He was affectionately called Greyhound of the Sea
In the clip, the sailing boat reaches the highest degree of perfection, which meant the best and most effective thing you could get in the yachting.
LA GOLETA
GOELETTE, Goletta, scones, Schon.
All of these names in different languages indicate a type of two-masted ship, armed with candles Auric, who are direct descendants of the lateen.
The experience gained in centuries of navigation, has shown that these candles are very suitable for sailing upwind as possible, ie to sail almost upwind.
Goleta type shown in this model, is approximately 1800 and widely used for fishing for cod in the seas off Newfoundland.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia
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