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The day that many hoped would ever come and that many others did not believe would ever take place, finally came.
It was August 24, 2020, a date in the annals of Cieza's history.
Nobody is aware that the uninhabited Andalusian Siyâsa is one of the hallmarks of the municipality.
Few tourists travel to the city and do not visit the museum, on San Sebastián Street, and continue their route through the Cerro del Castillo and the archaeological site.
This despite the few improvements made in recent years, which have led to the deterioration of the excavated area.
After many years of certain laziness, the Cañón de Almadenes Tourist Consortium has carried out the restoration, conservation and protection of the place.It is easy to share the general joy and satisfaction at the result of a project valued at more than a million euros.
And it is because it is an example of what the joint work of different administrations can do.
It took fourteen months to erect the cover that protects the excavated area and to prepare the area for the reception of visitors.
Designed by the architects Fulgencio Angosto and Miguel Ibáñez, the action carried out enables universal accessibility.
Finally, a definitive step has been taken to make the idea of ??making Siyâsa one of the main heritage and tourist references in the Region a reality, comparable to the Cerro del Molinete Archaeological Park in Cartagena.Conceived to promote the dissemination of the Andalusian legacy in Cieza to all types of public, the venue was inaugurated this Monday by the president of the Autonomous Community of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, and the mayor of Cieza, Pascual Lucas Díaz.
For both, who were accompanied among others by the Minister of Culture and Education, Esperanza Moreno, and the Councilor for Tourism, Antonio Moya, walking through what was one day one of the nerve centers of the old Kingdom of Murcia was like watching a movie of the history of Humanity, both of the relationship of the town with the natural environment and its social structure, its architecture and its streets.There is no doubt that, for the regional and local authorities who met yesterday, the historical interest of the hins is unquestionable.
A value greatly enhanced by that characteristic strategic location and by the eternal look that this enclave offers to the Segura valley through which so many residents arrived.
In the words of the mayor of Cieza, "the history that this place contains moves us and its location describes us, since it is located in the vicinity of Mount de la Atalaya, on the southern slope of Cerro del Castillo.
This unpopulated area has around of 700 houses dating from the 11th century, and the material used for the construction of the houses and the decoration of the medina was plaster ".For the councilor, with the execution of these works "we could say that the demands that one day in and another also claimed by the ciezana society, tired of comparative grievances with the rest of archaeological sites in the Region of Murcia, have been fulfilled, and that they attended helplessly before the deterioration of the excavated area ".
In the same way, he showed that "we were aware of what it meant to have an archaeological site like this one, and therefore we had an urgent need, first to protect it, to later put it in cultural and tourist value, and make it reach the whole world at through universal accessibility ".Architecture can provide an excellent basis for safeguarding this heritage and ensuring universal accessibility.
This was confirmed on the spot by the guests at the inauguration that took place on the esplanade of the visitor center.
The president of the Community of Murcia, who praised the joint work of different administrations within the consortium, and the director of the Municipal Museum Service, Joaquín Salmerón, who presented the new logo of the Siyâsa Museum, also took part in the event.
"The new design is a minimalist adaptation of the sgraffito jug found in the site, dating from the 13th century.
In this way we continue to preserve our original identity, but adapted to the new times," he explained.The culmination was the presentation of the novel 'Maryam de Siyâsa', by the Ciezano writer Antonio Balsalobre Martínez, which has been published by Alfaqueque Ediciones.
Set in the Siyâsa of the thirteenth century, between the years of greatest splendor of the Andalusian settlement and its abandonment in 1266, the work tells the story of a cultured and brave woman whose life is strongly conditioned by the historical events that take place in that turmoil period of pacts, conquests and reconquests.
Among the attending public was a broad representation of the Municipal Corporation of Cieza, the mayor of Calasparra, Teresa García, and the national and regional deputies José Luis Soto and the Ciezana Mirian Guardiola
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cieza
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