The Municipal spokesperson Citizens Yecla, Antonio Martinez Puche, sees recovery, protection and enhancement of the historical heritage is an obligation that must be among the priorities of local government, both to pass it in the best conditions to generations coming as an effective tool for economic diversification of our city.
In Yecla urban and rural landscape are dotted with buildings of religious origin, churches and chapels, which are the legacy of a way of understanding the life and spirituality for centuries.
Among these are valuable Rural Heritage Shrines, which are one of the deepest in the world of spirituality and popular culture is left of our recent ancestors reflexes.
They have come to count up to 35 late last century, architecturally, in general, it is simple, austere, all twigs of our popular culture.
In recent decades, the disappearance of the Chapels is going at high speed, gradually collapsing one after another, as happened a few years ago with the Chapel of the milestones, which collapsed today morning when he was awarded a grant public for restoration.
Therefore, the Municipal Group Yecla Citizens will ask in the plenary session on January 11 that various measures taken hastily: order an urgent study on the current state of rural chapels of our municipality;
complete a detailed analysis of their value and status in order to urge the Ministry of Culture to the declaration of a Cultural report;
and process the relevant records to determine which urgent action is needed to prop up those Shrines that are in imminent danger of collapse, and thus avoid another irrecoverable loss as the aforementioned.
It also will propose the legal protection of another unique building, known as the "factory bells," possibly the only urban wine cellar of the nineteenth century left in the city.
Source: Ciudadanos Yecla