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The mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo and the pastor of San Javier, José León today signed the renewal of a partnership agreement between the municipality and the parish, through which the City of San Javier to carrying 11,000 euros to be allocated the maintenance and opening Parish museum as a tourist attraction in the municipality.

José Miguel Luengo emphasized the work previously performed José Ballester, now deceased, and now Maria Grin, director of the parish museum of San Javier, to value a rich heritage in a museum than last year visited almost 28,000 people, representing an increase of over 20% over the previous year.

The mayor recalled that this is a tourist asset over town you have to continue to support.

Jose Leon thanked the municipal aid "because the parish alone could not cope with the opening of the museum."

Besides the parish of San Javier, which originated in the seventeenth century, is organizing a series of activities invigorate own museum and temple, with musical, theatrical and religious activities, or major temporary exhibitions are presented each year at Christmas and that they are an added value plus, next to Bethlehem in Spain, to visit San Javier at that time.

The Parish Museum of San Javier has been the subject of a new inventory recently led by Maria Grin, a resident of San Javier, director of the Department of Art History at the University of Murcia, who heads the museum of the parish of San Francisco Javier for the organization and value of each and every one of his pieces, some of the XIII century that can be visited again after the reopening of the Museum coinciding with the festivities in December.

The Councillor for Culture, David Martinez, who was also present at the signing ceremony, reiterated the support of his department to the restoration and maintenance work is being done from the parish of a cultural heritage that is part of the municipality's history and that should be displayed and disseminated as is done from the Museum of the parish of St. Francis Xavier.

Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier