Dénia receives a grant for the enhancement of places of memory and the removal of vestiges related to the Civil War
The Department of Participation, Transparency, Cooperation and Democratic Quality has allocated a total of 445.905,97 euros to city councils, associations, entities and non-profit associations of the Valencian Community to carry out actions related to the Valencian historical and democratic memory, the enhancement of places of memory and the removal of vestiges related to the Civil War and the dictatorship in the area of the Community.
This amount is distributed among 52 town councils and associations, as well as non-profit entities and associations, as published in the Official Gazette of the Generalitat Valenciana (DOGV).
Specifically, the beneficiary municipalities are those of Rafelbunyol, Bellreguard, Almenara, Torrente, Cullera, Dénia, Bétera, Villanueva de Viver, Monòver, Onil, el Puig, Vall de Almonacid, Albalat de la Ribera, Oliva, Potries, Teresa, Montanejos, Almedíjar, Gandia, Novelda, Benigànim, Viver, Borriol, Vila-real, Elda, Andilla, Borriana, Altura, Sagunto, Vilamarxant, Alfara de la Baronia, Nules, Castellnovo, Jérica, Vistabella, Alicante, Puebla de Arenoso, Manises , Vinalesa, San Isidro, Argelita, Muro, Higueruelas, Gaibiel, Morella and València.
Likewise, beneficiaries are the Mancomunitat de l'Alcoià i el Comptat, the Mancomunitat Alto Palancia, the Asociación Familiares Víctimas Fosa de Paterna, the Ciudad de Cuentos Culture Association, the Prosa Elastica Cultural Association and the Coordinator of Associations for the Historical Memory of the Province of Alicante (COAMHI).
The grants will also allow the substitution of street names, in addition to carrying out actions such as reports, studies and projects that promote the identification, location and recovery of buildings, places, monuments or vestiges of democratic memory or the dissemination and revaluation of the themselves.
The objective of these grants is to safeguard the knowledge and dissemination of the history of the struggle of Valencians and Valencians for their democratic rights and freedoms in the period since the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic, on April 14, 1931, until the entry into force of the Statute of Autonomy of the Valencian Community, on July 10, 1982.