Dénia City Council has set itself the goal of achieving the declaration of cultural interest in three of the most significant religious buildings of the city: the convent of the Augustines in Loreto street; Convent of Jesus Pobre and the convent of San Antonio, all of them founded in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
This request is made in order to take measures to encourage the protection of the most significant assets of the built heritage of the city and the municipality of Dénia, in order to obtain formulas that allow stricter control by the competent authority ; facilitate access to funding lines ruled today reserved only for the declared BIC heritage; and ensure greater public accessibility to these assets.
Applications are made in stages, depending on the priorities indicated by the consistory itself, including the state of global conservation of buildings and the characteristics of each property, among other circumstances.
The first building on which this statement will request the convent of Our Lady of Loreto or the Augustinian Recollect nuns of Denia, inaugurated by King Philip III in 1604. In regular full month of March a motion asking the mayor to the Ministry of Culture and Education the beginning of the record to declare BIC the convent, within the category of buildings or monuments will be presented.
While requesting the declaration will be forwarded the complete dossier and request a favorable report to the Consell Valencià de Cultura, the University of Valencia and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts San Carlos Office, Advisory of the Generalitat in cultural heritage institutions.
The second well monumental on which the declaration of BIC will be the convent hospice of Jesus Pobre, founded in 1642 by Pare Pere, be asked and, finally, will be asked for the convent of San Antonio, founded in 1587 at the request of the Council the Villa.
Assets of Cultural Interest in Dénia
At present, according to the general inventory of the Valencian cultural heritage, there are six Assets of Cultural Interest in the municipality of Dénia: the fortified house of the Benitzaina area, the castle and the walls, the hermitage of Sant Joan, and the towers of Almadrava, Torrecarrals and Gerro.
