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The Pérez de los Cobos manor house begins its rehabilitation as a House of Music and Arts (03/07/2020)

| With an investment of close to a million euros, the project includes the recovery of the façade, the central courtyard, all its rooms, as well as the cellars | Rehabilitation work has begun on the Pérez de los Cobos manor house as a House of Music and Arts.

It will involve an investment of 903,126.88 euros, of which 70% come through a 1.5% Cultural grant from the Ministry of Development and the remaining 30% will be provided by the City Council. It will become a space dedicated to the history of music, taking advantage of the different rooms such as exhibition or educational rooms, thematic rooms dedicated to the relevant local musicians, bands and groups, with an archive of photographic negatives of the performances, original scores and musical instruments recovered from each of the authors.

The idea is that it also has an archive and library, as well as an auditorium and auditions.

The project also includes the rehabilitation of the facade, as well as the recovery of the central courtyard and even the cellars. "We are very excited about the restoration of this house, since we are in a deplorable state.

The purpose is to give it a touristic use and revitalize the historical complex of Jumilla," said the mayor, Juana Guardiola, on her visit today.

together with the Councilor for Works, Francisco González, and the Councilor for Culture, Pilar Martínez. The works are being carried out by the Lorquimur company and will last approximately one year.

The project has been carried out by the architects Juan de Dios de la Hoz and Plácido Cañadas. Emergency action in 2017 In 2017, a first emergency action was carried out, which consisted of cleaning, shoring up and clearing the house, as well as the timely replacement of the roof with the aim of achieving minimum conditions of safety and stability at a cost of 102,800.

euros. The Pérez de los Cobos House is a Renaissance palace from the end of the 16th century, also known as the Casa Honda del Barón del Solar or the Cutillas Manor House.

Chronologically this would be the solar house of Pérez de los Cobos' mayorazgo that passed by succession to the Cutillas-Torres and later to his descendants the barons of the Solar de Espinosa.At different times it served as a dwelling house and dwelling and barn house.

It also hosted the writing and administration of the newspaper La Opinión.

It was built by Francisco Pérez de los Cobos, "el Rico" and by his wife Mariana de Cutillas-Torres.

It has a Mannerist style cover, Castilian bars and coats of arms, as well as a Renaissance courtyard, one of the few that have come to the present day. The last action that is done on it was carried out by the teacher Julián Santos Carrión, in the middle of the 20th century to recover it as a home.

It was declared a Site of Cultural Interest (BIC) in 1998.

In 2009 it became municipal property when it was acquired by the Jumilla City Council through an exchange.

In October 2015, the Hispania Nostra Association, in its work in defense of heritage conservation, included it in the Red List due to the state of abandonment of the property.

The emergency works carried out during 2017 allowed him to get off that alert list.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla

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