The Local Government has approved up for tender by open procedure, the restoration of the Church of San Francisco for their suitability as Iconographic Museum, after approving the project works by the architect Miguel Angel Munoz Yeclano Melero.
The total amount of the work amounts to 944,637 euros, 661,200 euros of which are subsidized by the Regional Development Association of Northeast Region of Murcia.
Are expected to commence works throughout the month of November and be completed in October 2013
In the specification is stable, the obligation for the contractor to whom the award of the work, hire a minimum of four unemployed, one of them being women, for a minimum period of 6 months.
The church of San Francisco was built by the Franciscans in the late sixteenth, highlighting the magnificent belfry with its main facade, which rises above the rest of the building.
Inside, the church has a Latin cross with a nave of 35 meters long and 8 wide, with side chapels.
The construction of the church of San Francisco represented the germ of the present city.
With the construction of the Church of the Assumption (1512-1540) and the Franciscan Convent (1582-1612) was formalized the backbone that has since served as a reference for the expansion of the urban fabric.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Yecla