The Gran Teatro de Huelva will open its doors again in June after undergoing a comprehensive refurbishment to house the Flamenco Festival City of Huelva, which runs from October to June. These works that will take the Huelva cultural space “into the 21st century”, as the mayor of the capital, Gabriel Cruz, pointed out yesterday, have an investment of approximately 330,000 euros. The reform is carried out within the framework of Tourist Plan for Large Cities signed by both administrations.
The “cultural nerve center” of the city, as defined by Cruz, yesterday received the visit of regional, provincial and local institutional representatives to see first-hand the progress of some works that started at the beginning of last month. The vice president of the Board, Juan MarinTherefore, he began in the capital a mini tour in the province that would later take him to Palos de la Frontera, where he accompanied the regional president, Juanma Moreno, to the inauguration of the City Hall. The Gran Teatro was accompanied by the Minister of Social Affairs, the Huelva-born Rocio Ruiz, thus forming an infrequent tandem due to the successive disagreements that have maintained despite their common membership of Ciudadanos.
Gabriel Cruz he served as a guide, along with the rest of the authorities who completed the institutional procession, on a tour of the facilities of the Grand Theater that ended in an unusually empty stalls. From that unprecedented scenario, Marín and Cruz attended the media showing great institutional harmony, materialized in the heading of the Tourist Plan for Large Cities, with an endowment of 4.7 million euros that the Huelva City Council will contribute fifty percent and the Junta de Andalucía. The Huelva capital was also, as the mayor recalled, the first city to sign this plan.
The vice president highlighted the “institutional loyalty “ and “how easy it is to start projects like this one” in the cultural sphere when in the two administrations “we find people so committed to their cities, to culture and to tourism”. Marín indicated that now “it’s time to move on”, referring to the projects that will be carried out in the four years that the aforementioned program is in force, which they hope to be able to comply “with the same diligence, the same efficiency and above all with the same illusion that we have at this moment ”.
Gabriel Cruz recalled that the Grand Theater will come to his centenary in 2023, an anniversary that will celebrate completely modernized after this thorough reform of “our temple”, he pointed out, the first in the installation in thirty years. The mayor also thanked the vice president for the Board’s commitment to this project “for something as necessary as culture” and described the collaboration of the regional government as “excellent”, “you cannot have a better harmony”, he assured.
After the remodeling of the Grand Theater, before the end of the year it is expected to also perform at the Auditorium of the Casa Colón, where it will proceed “to an intervention of the same scope,” said the mayor, who added that we are “only at the beginning of the development of a Plan in which the commitment and complicity that we are finding in the Board is essential to continue promoting in our city something as necessary as culture, which, as has been shown in the pandemic, is a vital element in making better cities and better citizens, in a more modern, advanced and progressive society ”.
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A thorough renovation to celebrate one hundred years
The mayor of Huelva, Gabriel Cruz, recalled yesterday that the Gran Teatro will reach its first centenary in 2023, an anniversary to which it will arrive completely renovated. As advanced Huelva Information, the works include the remodeling of sound and lighting infrastructures, the restoration of armchairs, fabrics and carpets, the wooden floors and the space areas of dressing rooms, toilets and rest areas, already very deteriorated.
It is the first reform in the last thirty years, which comes from the hand of the Tourist Plan for Large Cities of the City Council of the capital and the Andalusian Junta, with an investment of 4.7 million euros co-financed fifty percent by each administration, to develop actions that improve the tourist resources of the city in four years.
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