Madrid (EFE) protection established by the Spanish Historical Heritage Law.
It has also approved the declaration of the jota as a Representative Manifestation of the Intangible Cultural Heritage to contribute “decisively” to its safeguarding as a traditional genre.
As reported this Tuesday by the Ministry of Culture after the Council of Ministers, it is up to the department of Miquel Iceta to initiate and process the file, given that the buildings in the Plaza de España in Seville are attached to various public services owned by and state management.
The Plaza de España in Seville, the largest
The Plaza de España in Seville, explained Cultura, is the “largest building of all those created on the occasion of the Ibero-American Exhibition of 1929, held in the city.”
The initial layout of the square, he has described, was generated as a result of the draft competition held in 1911, from which the proposal presented by the architect Aníbal González was chosen. In the original project of 1914, the Plaza de España was planned as a space that closes the Ibero-American Exhibition towards the East, creating a large open space, with the presence of a pond, which is oriented and opens towards the Parque de María Louise.
In addition, it is a semicircular composition of buildings that embraces a huge municipally owned square whose free space is large, 230 meters in internal diameter between the two towers.
“Its shape symbolizes Spain’s embrace of its former American territories, looking towards the Guadalquivir river, as the path to follow towards America”, the Ministry concluded.
The jota as a “popular expression”
At the proposal of the Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta, the Council of Ministers has also approved this Tuesday, a royal decree that “represents the definitive protection step” of the jota after the Ministry of Culture and Sports, through the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Fine Arts, will begin the procedure on April 10, which already implied recognition and safeguarding of this practice.
In the declaration, Culture, coordinated by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, has participated, all the autonomous communities have participated.
The declaration of the jota is justified, Cultura has qualified, because it is the “most widespread, diverse, dynamic and reinterpreted of all the traditional genres that make up the varied sound and musical map of Spain”.
“The jota refers to a very popular traditional genre of music, song and dance developed up to the present time, with a general pattern at its base and a series of particularities and specificities that make it a diverse manifestation, recreated and reinterpreted in a different way. constant and dynamic by the carrier communities”, added the Ministry.
Likewise, for Culture, within the cultural values that the jota contributes as a traditional genre is its “internalization by individuals and communities, forming part of popular expressions in practically the entire Spanish territory and becoming a powerful element of cohesion social and identification of their identity signs”.
Law 10/2015, of May 26, for the safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage establishes that it corresponds to the Ministry of Culture and Sports, in collaboration with the autonomous communities, the safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage through the Declaration of Representative Manifestation of Cultural Heritage Immaterial, in addition to regulating the declaration procedure.