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A special helicopter, high-capacity, with two propellers and designed to lift up to 5,000 kilos, will be used tomorrow to place the crane on the Cerro del Castillo which will enable completion of the Phase IV restoration of the Castle of Alhama de Murcia by 1% Cultural granted in 2008 by the Ministry of Development and Culture, Government of Spain.
Due to the rugged, it has been necessary to use such helicopter, very unusual system in Spain and more typical of countries like Switzerland.
In fact, the vehicle will be handled accurately by a Swiss rider.
Work will begin around eight o'clock in the morning and is expected to end at half past ten.
To see the work being carried out at 9.30 am reach the government's delegate, whose delegation is part of the Interdisciplinary Monitoring Committee to review the work done so far to highlight the value of the deposits of the Cerro del Castillo and environment.
The said crane is part of the work of the Restoration Phase IV Castillo de Alhama de Murcia and is the most ambitious project to date.
The archaeological activities, which are being carried out in recent years in the Cerro del Castillo, are part of a comprehensive restoration project of the geographical space, historical and archaeological heritage that began with the European project castrum in 2004 and having been added since 2006, the site of the Cerro de Las drainer.
This initial project, Castrum, for the restoration of medieval fortresses in the valley of Guadalentín, began the first phase of restoration of the castle (there was a first performance in the year 1989) and continued at the next steps together, with excavation and restoration, at the instigation of the Directorate General of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage of the Autonomous Region of Murcia and the city of Alhama de Murcia, whose efforts culminated with the approval of the financing of large project 1% cultural, awarded to the City of Alhama from the Ministries of Culture and Development.
The Restoration Phase IV Castillo de Alhama, with an investment of 900,000 Euros from the Ministry of Development and Ministry of Culture cultural equivalent to 1%, which also involved the Autonomous Community of Murcia and the town of Alhama , will complete a total investment of 1,200,000 Euros.
This project was awarded to the company Lorquimur.
He concluded, therefore, the third stage of excavation and restoration has been acting as the entry area of the lower enclosure layered with important archaeological discoveries confirm the contexts of occupation of both compounds between XI and XVI centuries.
Among all the materials recovered in the entrance area and hallway layered communication with a second door is recovered in archaeological work, have found plenty of material related to the daily lives of its inhabitants who make a significant contribution to their livelihoods and their objects in common use for centuries XI to XVI.
This is table jugs Islamic Glazed bowl, small orcitas, storage jars, ornaments such as bracelets or pins touched, and numerous items belonging to door hardware, or shod horses that were found in the stables.
Still continues studio work, recording and cataloging of materials recovered during the excavations, which we present some of them so that our neighbors might meet scoop (because then they will be exhibited at the Museum), as our ancestors lived eight hundred years.
Not surprisingly the vast majority of them are assigned to the last year presence of Islam in these lands, with a period stretching from the late eleventh century to the mid-thirteenth century, then dishes of the early Christians who settled in place after the conquest, spanning the centuries XIV and XV and XVI to the residual mode
Both the lighting of the castle as the next phase of restoration will begin in the coming days with an expected implementation period of two years is going to set up, no doubt, the story of one of the most important monuments of alhameños.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia
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