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The Union, May 18, 2011.
The Full Council of La Union has approved the incorporation of the municipality in the European Route of Modernism, a nonprofit society they belong to cities around the world where a predominance of 'Art Nouveau', such as Vienna, Paris or Buenos Aires , and seeks international promotion and protection of all modernist heritage.
This was announced today the mayor of La Union, Francisco Bernabé, who explained that this initiative arose at the behest of the 'Commission Beltrí 2012', seeks to highlight an architectural movement which marked the revival of the region led by the wealth unionenses mine, leaving their mark in the municipality modernist miner Cartagena today.
Victor Beltrí precisely was the author of one of the landmarks of La Union, the Old Public Market (1901), an infrastructure with a very light and spacious interior that features on the outside with a wide variety of decorative elements typical of modernism, such as flowers and pinnacles, made of artificial stone and decorate the facade.
Next to the Public Market, now the seat of the International Festival of Cante de las Minas, the Catalan-born architect contributed to pervade the Union by modernist works such as the Pantheon of the Salmon Brothers (1905), Casa Cortez (1906) or Casa de Miguel Zapata "Uncle Wolf" (1913) at Portman, buildings that are emblematic of Cartagena are others like the Grand Palace Hotel and Aguirre, Casa Lorca Cache and Casino de La Nora.
As pointed out by the president of the 'Commission Beltrí 2012', Juan Ignacio Ferrández, "Our association has a special relationship with the Union, since not only created with the intention of commemorating the 150 anniversary of the birth of Beltrí, but also to protect and preserve their work face to be shown in perfect condition in 2012, and the municipality unionense is important. "
"In fact, when we show pictures of the Old Public Market in Barcelona, ​​where does the European Route of Modernism, the managers were very surprised by the spectacular building, why we proposed accession to the Mayor Francisco Bernabé, who accepted immediately, "he added Ferrández.
The European Route of Modernism, founded in 2000 by various institutions such as town halls, museums, foundations and private companies, is an association founded with the commitment to develop useful and efficient mechanisms for international protection and promotion of modernist heritage, and among its members Spanish cities such as Cartagena, Alcoy, Barcelona, ​​Zamora, and international as Vienna, Turin, Paris, Buenos Aires, Havana, Mexico City and Moscow.
This initiative, whose website is www.coupdefouet.eu / en / index.php, wants to encourage communication and exchange among its members to share experiences in restoration of monuments, public awareness programs, funding strategies and developing a sustainable tourism, so coupDefouet publishes and has published the European Route of Modernism catalog, an overview of the best modernist heritage landscape.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión
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