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The new Ethnographic Centre of the Cure House will house permanent displays and exhibitions on the history and traditions of farming and ranching town.

Friday May 18, 2012.

Work on the new 'ethnographic center' of Puerto Lumbreras entering its final stretch, and from next summer may be visited by citizens and visitors to learn about the traditions and history of the county agricultural and livestock production.

Thus, the new Ethnographic Center is located in the vicinity of Casa del Cura which constitutes one of the most iconic tourist attractions of the municipality that has been recently renovated.

In this sense, the construction of Ethnographic Centre with an investment of over € 150,000, funded through the European Leader Plus project, which encourages the Partnership for Integral Development 'Campoder'.

Thus, the Ethnographic Centre being built in an outhouse at the Casa del Cura, which originally used to store farm implements.

The Mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, explained that "with the construction of the new Ethnographic Centre of the Cure in the House continue to extend and infusing this new space tourism content we've created with the comprehensive rehabilitation of the iconic home of the House Cure of the nineteenth century. "

Thus, the new center will Ethnographic 115 square meters incorporating an Ethnographic Hall with permanent exhibits on farming and ranching traditions of the municipality as well as an audiovisual and multimedia classroom which will display in the documentary and multimedia works on the history of the traditions related to local agriculture and livestock.

Thus, the new Center Ethnographic show the historical development of agriculture and livestock in the municipality through audiovisual documentation, and display the museum resources related to the traditions and history of the city, "becoming a new tourist and cultural enclave with which the offer is extended to the newly created rehabilitation Nogalte Castle and the new tourist route made up of the cave houses. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras