Until Friday 22nd November can be visited in the exhibition room of the Cultural Centre of Mazarrón, the exhibition ‘Iberia and Fenicia. An encounter in the coast of  Mazarrón’ of the artist of Mazarrón Juan Navarro “El Saino”. The exhibition consists of twenty pictures of great quality about the Iberian and Phoenician civilizations. The exhibition, that can be visited from Monday to Friday from 9 to 22 hours, was inaugurated by the Mayor of  Mazarrón, Ginés Campillo, the councilor for Culture, María Celeste Soria, and the artist.

María Celeste Soria highlighted that “this exhibition is important for doble reason. In the first place because it is the first exhibition that accommodates de Cultural Centre of Mazarrón after its inauguration. And for the other side, because it will coincide with the celebration of the International Congress about our Phoenician Ship that will take place in this same place, being the flotsam of Mazarrón protagonist of some the the excellents pictures that Juan Navarro has done”.

On the other hand, the artist stated that his work “forms part of a didactic line with which I intent to teach how were likely the  commercial and social exchanges that were produced in the coasts of Mazarrón among the  Iberian and Phoenician civilizations”. The museum of ‘El Cigarralejo’ has served to  Navarro to create drawings about Iberia, while the Phoenician Ship of Mazarrón has been the inspirational symbol for the part about Phoenicia.

The Mayor of Mazarrón, Ginés Campillo, congratulated to Juan Navarro “for the great quality of the works that are exposed in this exhibition” and was particularly pleased in that “has been an artist of Mazarrón who has inaugurated this exhibition room”. The Mayor also wanted to highlight that “the exhibition will complete a fascinating congress about our Phoenician Ship, being these initiatives example of our interest to give value to our archaeological heritage. A value enhancement that has suffered a  parenthesis since that was inaugurated the  ‘Salt Roman Factory’ and that from the Town Hall we have recovered in a brave and decisive way”.