When we were immersed in the III International Congress on the Canal de Castilla, receive great news which we want to echo. Is none other than safeguarding the bakery of Vigo, which we talked in his day on this blog ( see ). Under the agreement made by the City Council of the city of Pontevedra, the land where now stands the factory buildings of flour and bread not be used for housing or commercial establishments, as an amendment to the Special Plan of Protection and Internal Reform (PREPI) Old Quarter, adopted at the plenary session of October 29, has become ground dotacional use.
Mayor of Vigo, Abel Caballero (PSOE), told various media that the bakery "we are asking for a new opportunity, a future. And their rehabilitation and re-offered to the city, in turn, the opportunity to be placed on the map cultural city, modern, who can use their inheritance to build a more loving. " Deck is one of the new uses of the plant conversion to public library.
The PEPRI the Old Quarter, which was adopted in March 2007 and providing buildable silos protecting the rest of the structure, which could be demolished. "We believe that we must go much further and we fully safeguard the Bakery, which is part of the industrial heart of Vigo and must be recovered," the mayor said, noting that the architects "world famous" Thom Mayne and Rafael Moneo urged him to re cuperar this historic building during their respective visits to the city.
Several groups have claimed the protection of the bread of Vigo in recent years, among other Let us na Bakery. For Vigo Outro é Possible association, the decision not to overturn it back a sentimental value for many citizens, Margarita Marino said that "as we knew it was impossible to recover the Bakery, we did (...) We must recover and adapt factories to new requirements, because they are essential to underpin the city feeling of pride to our past. And because they are essential for building our future. "
For his part, and since 2002 the College of Architects of Galicia elected the Bakery building as a symbol of protest Vigo World Day of Architecture and requested a second time to the Xunta de Galicia it listed as a site of cultural interest, with no response so far.
Sources:
http://blogcyl.patrimoniocastillayleon.org/patrimonioindustrial/archives/943
http://xornal.vigo.org/xnnoticia.php?lang=gal & news = 14252
http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/vigo/2010 / 10/20/0003_8794779.htm
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