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The mayor of La Union, Francisco Bernabé, announced today that the long awaited Flamenco School of Art will open its doors before the end of the year, with no other purpose than to "turn the town into the cultural capital of flamenco, 365 days a year and not only in August, when we celebrate the International Festival Cante de las Minas. "
Barnabas made the announcement after their meeting in Murcia with the president of the Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, who also holds the post of chairman of the Board of Trustees Cante de las Minas.
He explained that the mayor unionense to turn La Union cultural capital of flamenco have launched two initiatives to date, such as the International Flamenco Congress, held in June and an annual basis, and the Museum Cante de las Minas, which opened in July.
The third movement of this will be the Flamenco Art School, which will provide formal education in singing, guitar playing and dancing and, since birth, will be erected in preparation for the official center of access to the Conservatory of Music and Dance Region of Murcia.
Thus, Francisco Bernabé said that "the curriculum will be monitored by these academies, and their teachers will be specialists in singing, playing and music theory, to which he added that" the School will have a director renowned in music teaching and flamenco ", though his name be known in the near future.
Flamenco Art School will be located in Building Area Youth Union, and the official presentation of the courses is scheduled for November.
PARK EXTENSION OF MINING IN 2011
Moreover, given the success of public Mining Park of La Union, with 11,000 visitors in its first month of opening, the chief executive of Murcia, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, showed their commitment to continue recovering mining heritage agreeing unionense the extension of this attraction next year with the addition of a coil of the nineteenth century.
According to Santiago Guillén, technical director of mining park, this coil, located next to the laundry room of the mine "Paid" is a kind of pipeline of 926 meters long in a zig-zag, which at the time used to be covered and served to recover the mineral that was lost in the smoke.
"It was a drain of smoke from a mineral casting call Trinidad Rentz," says Guillén.
"The coil was lined, vaulted, and as these fumes were recirculated through there to expand, leaving the mineral attached to the coil, for later collection."
With a total of 50,000 square meters, the Mining Park of La Union is a pioneering activity in the recovery of historical heritage to its value as an attractive tourist and cultural nature, because it involves the recovery of a total of eight old fields nineteenth-century miners that will see "in situ" as they lived and worked for former miners of the Sierra de Cartagena - La Unión.
This tourist attraction has already received two major national awards: the award Santa Barbara, an award that the Official College of Mining Engineering was awarded as the best work of rehabilitation and recovery of the mining heritage, and the prize of the European business magazine Business World , which considers the Mining Park the most innovative initiative launched in the Region of Murcia in 2010.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión
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