Cehegín Mayor Jose Soria, Councillor for Culture, Nicolás del Toro, and the Municipal Archaeological Museum director, Francisco Peñalver, visited the excavation work Begastri City, which are being undertaken by the company Construcciones Theogin ceheginera .
A total of 307,000 euros, financed mostly by the Ministry of Development, which awarded the Cultural '1% '(the rest by the Autonomous Community and the City of Cehegín) will be invested in digging around 500 square meters of land, located at the main entrance of the site.
"At this site we will see what's buried and begin to bring to light the wall, as it will move many cubic meters of earth," said Del Toro, who added that "then, we'll finish the interpretation center and acceptance, and placement of signs and indicators for different paths. "
The end of these works will be a significant boost for the City of Begastri, as it will further open to the public value and, after musealization and conditioning for people with disabilities.
According to the mayor Soria, "these works are giving work to about ten people Cehegín, so also generates economy."
In 1982, the Ministry of Culture recommended the City Council to buy land Cehegín Begastri, which belonged to private.
These were used for agriculture, so it was necessary to pass to be municipal and declared as a Cultural, a fact that won four years later in 1986.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín