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In the afternoon they have opened to the public the Municipal Historical Archives of Sewell, in the House of Cayitas or House of the Inquisition, after several years of closure, since the Municipal Library moved to new and existing buildings next to the Museum Huerta, once the building has been carried an adaptation for use from now on will.
This opening doors, have been a group of residents of our town, historians, along with members of the Municipal Corporation, with the Mayor of Sewell, Joaquín Buendía, accompanied by the Councillor for Culture, Maria Luisa Martinez.
Who did not want to miss the chance to meet our Historical Archive was the General Director of Cultural Heritage, Maria Comas, who later aperturaba in the "Infanta Elena" Cultural Center Sample of Painters and artists from Murcia, in the programming of the Cultural Christmas .
The building has three floors.
The ground floor has two areas for showrooms.
On the first floor administrative offices of the file with the same staff, which will carry out the tasks of digitization of historical documentary heritage and counting, with a room dedicated to research room and auxiliary library are located.
And on the third floor, it is the repository of the archive of the municipality, who began his collection with the Chapter Acts November 1819, as well as keeping the photographic archive in paper and digital.
On the third floor, we find collections of labels of various canning factories of the town since the early twentieth century, totaling the amount of 12,790, with 350 different models, which have entered the file through donations family of canners and local collectors.
This collection is of great value to Sewer given the great significance that the industry preserved fruits and vegetables.
The building is also decked out to host the exhibition of 45 watercolors by local artist Andrew Navarro, who was present tonight and check it, being the first of the exhibitions that the file has.
Keeping in other wards, pictures of landscapes of our population and the illustrious Sewer works latter Mariano Ballester, such as Blessed Andrés Hibernón, Pedro Jara Carrillo Lorente and Wise.
Also having an exhibition in display cases of the oldest and identity documents and graphic documentary series of the Municipal Archives.
HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF Cayita or Holy Office and the Inquisition
Also known as the House of the Holy Office, but is more popularly known as "Las Cayitas" - (Name of the last owners of the palace who lived).
It is located on Calle Cartagena and was built in the eighteenth century, housing for hundreds of years the Regional Tribunal of the Inquisition.
Of their destiny and trade speaks coat of the main facade with its heraldic symbols: La Cruz, flanked by the sword and laurel.
In 1982 it was declared Historical Artistic Monument of National character and restored by the Ministry of Culture of the Autonomous Community of Murcia and the City Sewer.
From 1996 to 2013 this building was the headquarters of the Municipal Library of Sewell.
It is known that the Inquisition was already in Alcantarilla in the fifteenth century, establishing their relationships not only with the Villa but with its neighboring towns like Puebla de Soto, La Nora, etc.
However according Fulgencio Saura Mira - Official Cronista Sewer - documentaries and specifics of the Inquisition in Sewell dating from 1742, they are unpublished and deal with the dispute between the "family of the Holy Office and Sewer commissioner with the Most Reverend Bishop of Murcia by reason of preeminence, "which it is solved by the same monarch Felipe V;
in charter dating from February 13, 1745.
During the early nineteenth century we know that occasionally the Court of the Inquisition of the Villa is located in the City Council, until it returns to "The Cayitas" to their place of origin and so on until the Cortes of Cadiz that this institution is suppressed religious-political, which was so disastrous to Spain and gave rise to the Black Legend.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were their own DNA. Caya Arias Castellanos, and then his daughter Ms. Caya Lopez Arias hence the "Cayitas" we said earlier, is called so, for these its last owners.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla
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