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| Art History experts have been asking for its protection for years | Sosa maintains that it is already part of the neighborhood's historical heritage and that it could serve as the headquarters of any public agency: cultural center, library, social premises, neighborhood headquarters ... The Spokesperson for the Municipal Group of IU-V, Pedro Sosa, has presented this morning a peculiar and interesting initiative that he will defend in the ordinary municipal plenary session of November 2020 to be held next Monday, and which aims at the unique property built in the San Cristóbal neighborhood during the middle years of the 20th century by Acacio Mateo Pérez-Castejón. Sosa explains in his initiative that since the death of its owner, the aforementioned Acacio Mateo Pérez-Castejón, in the early years of this XXI century, his unique modernist construction with orientalizing airs located on Calle Ortega Melgares in Barrio de San Cristobal.
It is a building of tiles, ceramics and "trencadis" that, due to its beauty, its uniqueness, its rarity, etc., does not go unnoticed neither by strangers, nor by those who often walk down that street in the neighborhood. What may not be so well known to the vast majority of Lorca is that the property in question has attracted the interest of prestigious art historians and specialists in architecture.
Without going any further, the professor of Art History Javier Pérez Rojas, closely linked to the city of Lorca, in a choral book entitled "Margivagant sculptures.
Fantastic architecture in Spain", dedicated an article included in it to this property " Moorish evocations.
Acacio Mateo's House and Pantheon in Lorca (Murcia) ".
And it is that, in addition to the aforementioned property, the unique work of this character from Lorca completes the pantheon of identical architectural bill to the house that its author built in the San Cristóbal Neighborhood Cemetery. Returning to the building on Calle Ortega y Melgares, the best known of it is its façade, which consists on the ground floor of a main access door on the left and a lattice window on the right.
In the upper silver, there are two profusely decorated ceramic balconies-windows in the oriental way, and, finally, the façade is finished off by an interesting balustrade that recalls some constructions of Catalan modernism.
Inside, the same "trencadis" technique can also be seen with ceramic compositions in many of its elements: entrance, sideboard, dining room, main room, bed, side tables, etc. One of the great scholars of modernist architecture in the Region of Murcia, the architect and specialist in modernist art, Guillermo Cegarra Beltrí, in one of his publications (in May 2018) talks about the more than evident influence of the great Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí in the work of Acacio Mateo, an influence that is also supported by the long periods that the Lorca spent in Barcelona and by the known fact that some of the ceramics of the Lorca construction were brought directly from the Catalan capital.
This specialist asked the Lorca authorities "to proceed urgently to the protection of this property." Thus, we reproduce the agreement that Sosa will defend in the municipal plenary session of Lorca on behalf of IU-V: "The City Council of Lorca, in consideration of the artistic interest of the house of Acacio Mateo Pérez-Castejón in the San Cristóbal neighborhood, and Aware that its abandonment can irreversibly deteriorate its most relevant architectural elements, both exterior and interior, it will proceed to provide an instrument of protection to the aforementioned property and carry out the appropriate procedures for its public acquisition and put into use in it of a public service of interest for the residents of the neighborhood "
Source: IU-verdes Lorca
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