The City of Segovia Segovia reminded that from Monday, April 4, will be open daily Segovia Mint at 16:30 pm and Saturday at 10:00, 12:00 and 16:30 hours, accompanied by an official guide of the city.
These visits, lasting approximately 2 hours, allow citizens to access not only the physical space of the plant, but they know the history of the Mint, the uses that have given over more than 300years of activity and the basic lines that will guide their future use.
Will be sponsored by the company Volconsa and managed by Empresa Municipal de Turismo, which will form the groups. This activity is part of the collaboration that the company, a member of Club 16, provides the achievement of the Cultural Capital 2016.
In order to participate in them, from now may withdraw invitations in the Central Reserve Segovia Visitor Reception Center, which is open from 10:00 to 19:00 hours.
Only allowed to withdraw a maximum of 4 invitations per person. Its price is free and the maximum number of people who may be part of each group is 30.
Organized groups and associations must apply in writing to the Central Reserve Segovia Visitor Reception Centre (Plaza del Azoguejo 1) or email address: info@reservasdesegovia.es
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The Segovia mint will open as a museum
viernes, 1 de octubre de 2010
The Mint of Segovia, will open its doors in spring of next 2011. This was just pointed out the mayor of Segovia, Pedro Arahuetes, and the director of museums in Segovia, Alonso Zamora, head of the museum project.
The Real Ingenio who built Felipe II in 1583, and in which some of the coins minted largest in Spain for four centuries, recover their numismatic value through a museum of history of the Currency, with recreations of the systems manufacturing coins. The museum will display the types of issue: a hammer, with rollers in the sixteenth century through the wheel presses (Baroque) and automatic faucets turbine.
Be "a walk in chronological order, starting in 1583 and completed in 1868, the date of the last coinage. More than 9 million euros have been invested in the rehabilitation, of which 6 million have been borne by the central government and the remainder equally between the Junta de Castilla y León and the city of Segovia.
"The rehabilitation works already cover 90% of the execution," said Arahuetes, welcomed the forthcoming opening in spring. Ingenio Royal Rehabilitation is an old project of the city yet, knowing the importance of the only mint that is still standing in Spain, has taken thirty years to return its importance.
The old currency Factory became the 50's of last century flour mill and the Consistory bought in the 80 to the last owner. Since then, the case has been fraught with difficulties, especially economic, given the scale of rehabilitation, conservation and difficulties along the river, the group of buildings declared BIC category of industrial monument.
As pointed out by archaeologists and historians to the site visit "The building itself is part of the machinery itself," says Jorge Soler, hence its size, huge, and its elongated shape, to introduce the machinery used for their other river as a power source in a time when transmission systems did not exist.
The Real Ingenio who built Felipe II in 1583, and in which some of the coins minted largest in Spain for four centuries, recover their numismatic value through a museum of history of the Currency, with recreations of the systems manufacturing coins. The museum will display the types of issue: a hammer, with rollers in the sixteenth century through the wheel presses (Baroque) and automatic faucets turbine.
Be "a walk in chronological order, starting in 1583 and completed in 1868, the date of the last coinage. More than 9 million euros have been invested in the rehabilitation, of which 6 million have been borne by the central government and the remainder equally between the Junta de Castilla y León and the city of Segovia.
"The rehabilitation works already cover 90% of the execution," said Arahuetes, welcomed the forthcoming opening in spring. Ingenio Royal Rehabilitation is an old project of the city yet, knowing the importance of the only mint that is still standing in Spain, has taken thirty years to return its importance.
The old currency Factory became the 50's of last century flour mill and the Consistory bought in the 80 to the last owner. Since then, the case has been fraught with difficulties, especially economic, given the scale of rehabilitation, conservation and difficulties along the river, the group of buildings declared BIC category of industrial monument.
As pointed out by archaeologists and historians to the site visit "The building itself is part of the machinery itself," says Jorge Soler, hence its size, huge, and its elongated shape, to introduce the machinery used for their other river as a power source in a time when transmission systems did not exist.
Friends of the Mint commemorative coins minted in the feast of St. Agatha
domingo, 31 de enero de 2010
If anything has characterized the Friends of the Mint during its long existence is its commitment to promote the value and importance of the former Royal Mill in Segovia and coinage as hallmark of the town of Segovia.
Therefore, for some time, the group chaired by the historian, numismatist Glenn Murray takes all kinds of festivities and celebrations to cultivate, distribute and sell commemorative coins to immortalize these events.
The initiative has set, as are hundreds of people often turn to mint its own currency, as happened the night of San Frutos at the door of the Cathedral. The next meeting will be Sunday February 7, day Zamarramala women celebrate the traditional festival of Saint Agatha, popular rejoicing takes place since 1227. Here, then, in the square of Mayors will be Murray and his contraption to carve coin with a hammer. The association said yesterday that it will be the traditional coin toss into the air. Specifically, will be 32 pieces, divided into two handfuls of 16 coins each for what to look for the symbology Segovia 2016.
These may pick them off the ground completely free. For the occasion, the Association of Friends of the Mint has commissioned a die to the recorder Juan Jose Sanchez Castano, a member of the group and professional writer, who has recorded a chisel along the older technique. The coin is precious. The obverse is a mayor Zamarriego with veranda and staff of office. All around are the inscriptions: "From 1227. Santa Agueda. Zamarramala '.
The reverse of the coin shows the four monuments of Segovia, ie, the Aqueduct, the Cathedral, the Alcazar and the Mint, dated 2010. According to sources in the association, will also be sold in Zamarramala recorded in ink and embossed design on paper currency, the work of Miguel Angel Maroto partner also. The aim is to collaborate with the party of mayors and spreading the name of the Mint and the importance of coinage was in Segovia in the past.
Therefore, for some time, the group chaired by the historian, numismatist Glenn Murray takes all kinds of festivities and celebrations to cultivate, distribute and sell commemorative coins to immortalize these events.
The initiative has set, as are hundreds of people often turn to mint its own currency, as happened the night of San Frutos at the door of the Cathedral. The next meeting will be Sunday February 7, day Zamarramala women celebrate the traditional festival of Saint Agatha, popular rejoicing takes place since 1227. Here, then, in the square of Mayors will be Murray and his contraption to carve coin with a hammer. The association said yesterday that it will be the traditional coin toss into the air. Specifically, will be 32 pieces, divided into two handfuls of 16 coins each for what to look for the symbology Segovia 2016.
These may pick them off the ground completely free. For the occasion, the Association of Friends of the Mint has commissioned a die to the recorder Juan Jose Sanchez Castano, a member of the group and professional writer, who has recorded a chisel along the older technique. The coin is precious. The obverse is a mayor Zamarriego with veranda and staff of office. All around are the inscriptions: "From 1227. Santa Agueda. Zamarramala '.
The reverse of the coin shows the four monuments of Segovia, ie, the Aqueduct, the Cathedral, the Alcazar and the Mint, dated 2010. According to sources in the association, will also be sold in Zamarramala recorded in ink and embossed design on paper currency, the work of Miguel Angel Maroto partner also. The aim is to collaborate with the party of mayors and spreading the name of the Mint and the importance of coinage was in Segovia in the past.
Exhibition from barter to check in Guatemala
miércoles, 13 de enero de 2010
From barter to check is the name given to the sample of notes and coins from different eras of Guatemalan history, presented at the Museum of Miraflores 16 to 31 January. In this exhibit will show the various changes that the national currency has experienced since the seventeenth century to the present. The exhibition From barter to check is in the Museo Miraflores (7th street 21-55, Zone 11) of 16 to 31 January, from 10:00 to 19:00 hours. The workshops will be offered on 16, 23 and 30 January. Admission: adult Q20, Q10 children. Carlos Mackenney, Numismatic Association of Guatemala, said that the currency of a country tells the socio-political life, their leaders, and political changes that each nation has experienced. The coins and banknotes to be exhibited at this time belong to private collections. "In the beginning, (as a medium of exchange) were used shells, feathers, stones, seeds and various natural elements and as trade is conducted users found an easier way to do business, finding a material that does not lose its value and be easy to carry, so metal was selected valuable as gold, silver and copper, "explains Mackenney. According to the collector, over time, it eliminates the use of gold and silver coins, and worldwide are beginning to use a cheaper material, and emerge with time tickets. A story to tell Besides the shows, members of the Numismatic Association of Guatemala taught workshops where the money will discuss the origin and evolution, colonial currency, until the formation of banks in the country, among other topics. In the variety of pieces to be exhibited in the museum, tickets are chemas type, according Mackenney were named for carrying the image of Jose Maria Orellana, and that General Jorge Ubico ordered to cancel, tossing a coin with images of development and progress of the country.
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