The Synagogue of Córdoba, the second most visited monument managed by the Junta in AndalusiaCORDOVA
The sets and enclaves of the Network of Cultural Spaces of Andalusia managed by the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports They registered a total of 1,251,121 visits in the first quarter of 2024, which is an increase of more than 10% compared to the same period in 2019, when a total of 1,129,833 visits were registered. In Córdoba, the most visited was the Synagogue, with 150,642 visitors, a figure that places this space as the second most visited in Andalusia (of the monuments managed by the Junta) after the Monumental Complex of the Alhambra and Generalife, which totals more than half a million visits in the first three months of 2024.
This was announced in a parliamentary committee by the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sports, Arturo Bernal, who has also insisted on the commitment of Andalusian government for research and conservation in cultural groups.
In this sense, Bernal, citing the Carteia site in Cádiz as an example, has announced that the Ministry is working, together with the Cepsa Foundation, on an ambitious plan, which will focus on the study, analysis and diagnosis of the heritage. hydraulic of the ancient city of Carteia. “This action will culminate – Bernal detailed in his speech – in the adoption of corrective, architectural and technical measures, to guarantee its conservation.”
Network of Cultural Spaces of Andalusia
Among the actions agreed with Cepsa, the counselor has pointed out, is the contract of specialized archaeological service –in the bidding process–, “with which it is intended to carry out a preliminary study, and the subsequent diagnosis of the approximately forty Roman hydraulic infrastructures of which we have knowledge so far.”
The statistics of the Network of Cultural Spaces of Andalusia, in which Carteia is included, also indicate that the Monumental Complex of the Alhambra and Generalife, with 570,254 visits, was the most visited space in the community, followed by the Synagogue of Córdoba, with 150,642 visitors, the Roman Theater of Málaga, with 126,261 visits, the Archaeological Complex of Itálica, which in the first quarter received a total of 65,721 visits, with March, with 28,702 visits, being the month with the highest number of visitors.
The Monumental Complex of the Alcazaba of Almería, for its part, received 57,451 visits in the first three months, registering 31.6% more compared to the same period of the previous year, and the Roman Theater of Cádiz, which with 32,623 visits, recorded an increase of 41.6% compared to the first quarter of 2023.
The statistics of the Network of Cultural Spaces of Andalusia, which include all the people who attend the cultural spaces to participate in any of its activities, their objective is to determine the role of the centers that make up the Network event in the dissemination of cultural heritage, to know the evolution of the volume of their visits and the cultural activities carried out there.
