The Government of Cantabria, through the Ministry of Public Works, Spatial Planning and Urban Planning, will collaborate with the City Council of Castro Urdiales in the Renovation of the Abastos Market with the main objective of unifying all the services in this emblematic building, and that it can provide service to all citizens who come to it since it will promote that the positions are not scattered in different parts of the town, as is the case in the present.
Vice President Pablo Zuloaga and the Minister of Public Works, Spatial Planning and Urban Planning, José Luis Gochicoa, have attended the exhibition of the interior and exterior remodeling project, which has been designed by the Madrid architects Luís Climent Rosillo and Luís Climent Soto, winners of the ideas competition.
For the vice president, this project represents the institutional collaboration between different administrations and groups seeking the need to get more out of the building, both from a social and economic point of view, at the same time that it has valued the effort of the Government of Cantabria to adapt the initial project with a very important investment so that the infrastructure is something more than a market.
Pablo Zuloaga, Susana Herrán and José Luis Gochicoa. / SER string
For his part, José Luis Gochicoa highlighted that the investment that his department will carry out in the reform of the interior of the market, to which the beautification of the exterior will be added at a later stage, will give the building greater appearance and, with this, it will be able to give life to this market and to Castro Urdiales, as happens in cities such as Logroño, Madrid or Barcelona, making it a point of tourist reference.
The mayor of Castro Urdiales, Susana Herrán, stressed that this project was born from the need to give added value to the building and to provide the square with modernity and functionality to locate the positions in a single building. Therefore, this action will represent a improvement in the working conditions of traders that for many years they have been bringing local products closer together and that thanks to their daily effort the essence of the food market has been kept alive, which will become an attractive and accessible market for all.
In this action the Government of Cantabria will invest more than 900,000 euros to condition and distribute the entire interior part of the building, while the Castro Urdiales City Council will allocate more than 100,000 euros to the remodeling of the facade on the outside.
The design made includes four butcher shops and an equal number of fish shops with cold rooms and facilities for cleaning and cutting fish, six boats with fresh outlets, direct from the sea, with the necessary equipment; eleven greengrocers and two spaces for the sale of products that come directly from the garden; a cold meats and canned food area; a bakery; a bar and a kiosk for the sale of newspapers and magazines.
The building, located in the Plaza del Mercado, in the center of the urban area of Castro Urdiales, was built between 1908 and 1911 by the Castrean architect Eladio Laredo to serve as a food market for the then Villa, and adopts a eclectic style with modernist decor features, which is manifested especially in the floral ornamentation of the access doors.
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