Toledo.- The delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha, Francisco Tierraseca, has announced the imminent publication of the extract of a new order of aid from the Government of Spain aimed at the maintenance of cultural and tourist heritage.
Tierraseca, who attended this Tuesday the presentation of the project of recovery, conservation and dissemination of the archaeological site of El Acequión (Albacete), has taken the opportunity to praise the effort that the City of Albacete is carrying out in this direction, with the support of the Executive of Pedro Sánchez. “The history of the city of Albacete in recent months is that of the recovery; the Broad Street was recovered for the population, the use of the Fairgrounds has been recovered and the former Simón Abril Police Station is recovered for cultural use and now this project of El Acequión is presented.”
Given these examples, the delegate insisted that the City of Albacete and the Government of Spain “share the same objective: to move towards the dynamization of the economy, tourism and heritage”.
Under this premise, said Tierraseca, the Government of Spain has worked “firmly and constantly” to bring the European Funds to the country, on which it has been convinced that the mayor of Albacete “will take advantage” of the opportunity to obtain financing with which to carry out this “great project”. An objective in which the Central Executive is “complicit” in the Consistory of Albacete.
The City Council of Albacete, and the other local and regional entities of Castilla-La Mancha, will have this possibility of financing, with the new order of aid of the Government of Spain to support the Autonomous Communities and the Local Entities to recover their heritage, of which the delegate of the Government has announced the “imminent” publication of the call.
It will establish a budget of 208 million euros for intervention in Goods of Cultural Interest of the Autonomous Communities and Local Entities, with which projects related to public goods, Goods of Cultural Interest or goods of tourist use can be presented.
The amount of the aid will go from 750,000 euros to 3 million euros and 100% of the intervention will be financed, having, the administrations driving the projects, to have executed them by the deadline of March 31, 2026.
The Acequion Site
According to the researchers, it is an archaeological site of enormous transcendence in municipal terms of Albacete, due to its dimensions and its historical relevance. In it have been found vestiges of populations of the Bronze Age that began to inhabit it with the empty lagoon, precisely looking for water in its subsoil, in the year 2,200/2,300 BC, more than 40 centuries ago.
After many changes in the population, even for many centuries without being inhabited, it once again hosted a stable population in the Iron Age, in Iberian culture, which settled on the ruins of the town of the Iberian era.