The director general for the Promotion of Culture and the Book, Francisco Giménez, today introduced the Privilege Villazgo Fortuna Township, known as the Town Charter, which has been operated by the Restoration Laboratory of the General Archive Paper.
The minutes will be exposed from today until April 7 in the chapel of San Roque, where the Town Charter was signed.
In addition, we have organized workshops, lectures and concerts that delve into the history of the town.
The document is a notarial deed of grant of jurisdiction villazgo real or made in 1628 to Fortune, which until then was a dependent of the city of Murcia.
This is a manuscript book, bound in vellum, dating from 1731 to 1798, and consists of 153 pages that include the relocation of a Royal Provision of Philip IV in granting jurisdiction and its own term for the inhabitants of Fortune and the subsequent record of the municipal boundaries and constitution of the council, which are the result of compliance with this provision Real.
The privilege is restored, therefore, a source of information of interest to Fortuna and surrounding municipalities, and is closely related to the identity of this town: the famous baths, the rugged territory of their municipality, the names of families who populated the area at that time, among others, all this is a historical reference that remains alive in the present.
The intervention was essentially aimed at neutralizing all the factors causing the degradation and recovery of physical and functional integrity of the work.
Paper Restoration Laboratory
The Ministry of Culture has the service restoration of historical documents through laboratory installed in the Archives since 2007.
The director general for the Promotion of Culture and the book stressed "the importance of this service is restoring the rich documentary heritage and regional literature."
In this regard, he noted that work is for municipalities to have their documents in perfect condition "as an important part of our history."
During the implementation of the Laboratory have been restored and 720 pieces in various media and formats (mainly parchment paper, books, manuscripts and photographs), which has brought the heritage back to 19,268 sheets or pages of historical documents, whose high level deterioration was attacking their preservation for future generations.
Thus, treaties have been shot in scroll privileges medieval, sixteenth-century notarial records, old maps of municipalities or large format books and importance as the Blaeu Atlas (siglo XVII).
Source: CARM