The subdelegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, approached this morning the city of Ares, where together with its mayor Julio Ignacio Iglesias, they visited the Monastery of Santa Catalina that will receive about 3 million euros for restoration actions through the line of aid of the Program of Improvement of the Competitiveness and Dynamization of the Historical Heritage with tourist use. The town planning councillor Olimpia Marcos and the cultural councillor, Alma Barrón, also attended the visit.
The subdelegate recalled that the Government allocates to Galicia through this call a total of 9,603,123 euros, whose objective is the financing of improvement projects such as this Mosteiro de Santa Catalina, for the improvement of tourist use in Goods of Cultural Interest (BIC).
In total, there will be 89 projects from 13 autonomous communities, 2 in Galicia, which will benefit from this aid worth 207.6 million euros, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
Thus, Ares will receive an investment of 2,999,998 euros to improve different rooms and structural elements of the Mosteiro de Santa Catalina. Among the planned actions is the replacement and repair of the roofs, the restoration of the carpentry and cloisters. One of the most unique pieces is the baroque style altarpiece on which part of the performances, as well as the wall paintings, will also be focused. It is also planned to improve the accessibility of the main room and the ante-room, as well as reforms in the toilets.
The actions to be developed are also linked to the strategy of dignification and enhancement of the local heritage that has been applied by the municipal government, which will allow the valuation of the property, its adequacy to improve the tourist uses of the Mosteiro.
María Rivas, indicated that the selection of this project took into account the characteristics of the destination, such as viability, quality and tourist potential. Destinations with a risk of depopulation were also valued to boost their tourist potential and strengthen social and territorial cohesion.
Conference on Gender Violence
The subdelegate also approached the School of the Alliance, to intervene in the XVII edition of the Gender Violence Day, organized by the city council and which this year focuses the debates on the professional profile, intervention skills and self-esteem.
María Rivas pointed out that we have to face speeches that violate the dignity of women and that trivialize gender violence, since they deteriorate the progress achieved in equality policies.
In his speech he wanted to set the tone in the commitment to the protection, care and care of each of the 2,668 victims that in the province of A Coruña, are within the VioGen system, “are a daily revulsive to continue working without rest for a society free of machista violence”
On a day as marked as November 25, he recalled that all of us must fight against all kinds of violence, that we must not accept speeches that perpetuate gender stereotypes, nor actions that make women invisible in public life, in political action, or that relegate them from spaces of economic power and social prestige.