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San Javier is making it easier than ever for visitors and locals to explore its history and culture. The town has just launched a series of striking Corten steel panels installed outside six of its most emblematic buildings and monuments, each one telling part of San Javier’s story.

 

Presented by the Councillor for Tourism, Estíbaliz Masegosa, together with the Councillor for Culture, David Martínez, the initiative is designed to help people connect with the heritage and identity of San Javier.

 

These panels “allow visitors to better understand our history, our cultural spaces and the soul of San Javier,” said CouncillorMasegosa.

 

The six new displays can be found outside the Municipal Museum, the Town Hall, the Church of San Francisco Javier, the Music Conservatory, Almansa Park and two well-known sculptures: “Melpómene” by Juan José Quirós, a tribute to the theatre, and the “Patrulla Águila” by sculptor Manuel Páez.

 

Each marker includes clear, bilingual explanations in Spanish and English, as well as QR codes linking directly to the town’s tourism website, where additional content is available.

 

“Offering a more complete and digital experience,” explained Estíbaliz Masegosa, who also noted that the aesthetics are in line with the Museo Aeronáutico Tiflológico (MAT) in Santiago de la Ribera. Improvements to the MAT’s information panels are also planned.

 

For his part, Councillor for Culture David Martínez highlighted the goal of the initiative:

“This initiative aims to highlight not only our heritage but also our identity and history.”

 

He added that the project “will allow people who walk through the historic centre to get an idea of the origins of the municipality and which current buildings, some with different uses than their original ones, narrate important pages of our history.”

 

Among the details included on the panels is the reminder that the current Municipal Museum preserves the structure and main exterior elements of the original mid-20th-century Barracks House. The Church of San Francisco Javier, dating from the 17th century, was probably built on the site of a late 16th-century church at the crossroads where the municipality was founded.

 

In the case of the Conservatory, the text explains that it was originally a Public School for boys and girls, designed by the prestigious architect Pedro Celdrán, whose exterior façade is still preserved today.

 

The initiative will expand in the future with new displays planned for Santiago de la Ribera and La Manga del Mar Menor. It is funded by European resources within the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, forming part of the San Javier Sustainable Tourism Plan and coordinated with the Region of Murcia Tourism Institute.

 

For more local information go to the home page of San Javier Today