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On Sunday June 8th didactic ending routes during the months of April and May unveiled the Council of Good Men.
These routes organized by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, through the Department of Fine Arts and Cultural Assets.
The trail leaves the Square of Spain in Murcia, at 10:00 am, bound to the Ethnographic Museum and Sewer wheel, the Acequia Mayor contrapasa and Alquibla and ends with a visit to the Wheel of Nora and back to square one starting at 13:30 hours.
On this visit, we will explain the major milestones of the traditional irrigation system of the garden and customary court, the Council of Good Men.
In the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, in order to raise public awareness campaign comes '1001 Actions for Intercultural Dialogue ', sponsored by the Anna Lindh Foundation, in which the Heritage Service of the Directorate General Fine Arts and Cultural involved with actions dedicated to the promotion of mutual understanding and respect, in connection with the disclosure of intangible cultural heritage.
In this context, special importance Bid to Heritage Council of Good Men, deepening intercultural character creation from its Islamic roots, the Kings kept by Christians through the centuries and then export as irrigation model to the new world.
Within the campaign '1001 Actions for Intercultural Dialogue ', was inserted tours to publicize the importance of the Council of Good Men and the run for the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity with UNESCO.
The event, organized in the preparatory work of the Council Candidacy Good Men of the Huerta de Murcia and the Tribunal de las Aguas de Valencia Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, will be attended by Nicolas Ortega Council Secretary Good Men of the Huerta de Murcia.
Good Men is a customary court composed of farmers in the vegetable gardens and orchards that oversee the resolution of disputes arising in respect of irrigation, which dates back to the ninth century.
Its members have a duty to promote just solutions and collective interest in the water look like.
The wording in the nineteenth century of the Ordinances of the Huerta de Murcia was granted legal status to the Council.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla
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