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The City of San Javier has placed a plaque with a photograph of the old City Hall building in one of the walls of the church of San Francisco Javier, on Calle Don Antonio López Martínez Pastor, forward on the current Session.
The image is placed over another, existing first town hall, all built in the same location, allowing the vision appease the facades of the three buildings that have received the City of San Javier along its history .
On this occasion, the mayor of San Javier, Juan Martinez invited to drive out of the old building, Teodoro Martínez López, who was mayor from 1968 to 1972, to raise awareness of the new photographic plate, in addition to other existing and which reminisces of places and buildings characteristic of the municipality.
Teodoro Lopez, who was accompanied by his family, had to deal with in the 60's with a report stating the old dilapidated town hall, a palatial house purchased from the Marquesa de Corvera in 1878, and the recommendation of his immediate eviction.
The inability to recover the old building made quickly begin the process to build a new one that would become an architectural model and a symbol of modernity in the region in the early 70s.
The new building, which was designed by architect José María Toledo, was built with a budget of 44,416 euros, slightly less than half of the municipal budget for 1972, which was inaugurated on July 13, and when the Mayor Teodoro Martinez left .
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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