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The Marchioness of Corvera and Almenas, Maria Teresa Arce Riquelme returned to pace last place where one day his house was converted in the city of San Javier since sold it for that purpose in 1878. Lightened by the candelabra held his maid walked in the audience last night attended the opening of the exhibition "Windows to Time: historical gems of San Javier historical archive" in the hall of the City of San Javier.
The Marquise itself, which he portrays an actress of the theater group San Javier, ordered the municipal archivist, Luis Lluch to explain the content of the sample with which historical documents of all kinds are rescued to accompany and contextualize the last document it adds to the custody of the municipal archives last night dressed up to host which is the oldest of those document hoards, dated in 1796, 40 years before the establishment of the city of San Javier after segregating the municipality of Murcia in 1836 .
The document, bought at auction by the City of San Javier, contains a sentence that ends the dispute between the families of Jesualdo Riquelme y Fontes and Antonio Lucas Celdrán, Marquis of Beniel, on land in the Plaza de San Javier, where now City Hall is located.
A document of great importance for the drawings that accompany the square in 1796, and a book of 176 pages which can extract all kinds of information of the time, the documents that provide the parties.
Before opening the exhibition, Professor of Modern History at the University of Murcia and director of the Foundation Center for Historical Studies and Commercial Research in the Region of Murcia, Francisco Chacon who stressed "the enormous institutional and cultural sensitivity of this municipality that returns to neighbors part of their collective memory with the purchase of this historic document ", gave a lecture in which he placed the new document acquired in its historical context.
Councillor for Culture, David Martinez and Mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo emphasized the municipal commitment to culture, in whose line they placed the purchase decision of this document in a few days will be posted on the website of the City in full for ease of reference.
The new momentum that has resulted in the acquisition of this document will also result in a policy of opening the file, often consulted by scholars, the public with guided tours and concerted begin with the municipal corporation own visits, he announced the mayor, José Miguel Luengo, to value and publicize the work done from the file for custody of the municipality's history.
The exhibition with historical documents and other municipal archives donated by the Regional Archive, as well as the newly acquired document will be displayed in the hall of the City of San Javier until 2 May.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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