The municipality of Bejar has been selected by the Jury of the Competition because of its proposal to develop a project which aims to revitalize the area of La Antigua, the founding core of the town which is currently suffering the effects of depopulation. The idea is to carry out an intervention in the urban space around the Church of Santa María, an area where the Jewish Museum is also located, as well as various other buildings dating from the times of the local textile industry’s splendour, which today are in abeyance and abandoned. For one of the best examples of these old factories, the idea is to rehabilitate it and turn it into a school of crafts. Moreover, the intention is to build a student’s hall -to hold the future attendants of the aforementioned institution- in a vacant plot of land located in the same area. Special attention will be set on giving the public spaces a new design, aiming to turn the area into a pleasant and welcoming one for the neighbours, attracting once again the population towards it. With this whole intervention the objective is to create a new focus of activity which contributes to retrieving the social and economic wellbeing of the degraded historic city centre of Bejar.
The town of Bejar is the most important population centre within the South-East of the province of Salamanca, and it is neighbour to the provinces of Avila and Caceres. Being so, it is the regional service centre and the head of judicial district and of the association of the Reservoir in Bejar. Its population is of 13.221 inhabitants, of which 96% is gathered round the urban core and the rest is distributed in other minor population centres such as Fuentebuena, Palomares and Valdesangil.
It is located in the mountain range with the same name, over the southern end of the Meseta Norte between the foothills of the Macizo de Gredos and the Sierra de la Estrella. It is located at an altitude of 953 metres, on a spur of granitic rock. Descending from the snowed summits of the mountain range, numerous water courses flow down its lands, gathering to shape the river Cuerpo de Hombre, a tributary of the Alagon River and therefore belonging to the Tagus basin. Its presence influenced in a decisive way the location and development of the population centre, since it had the ideal conditions to carry out industrial activities. Proof of this, are the many mills, fullers and escaldaderas that were progressively built to take advantage of the energy generated by its water.
The municipality of Bejar has been selected by the Jury of the Competition because of its proposal to develop a project which aims to revitalize the area of La Antigua, the founding core of the town which is currently suffering the effects of depopulation. The idea is to carry out an intervention in the urban space around the Church of Santa María, an area where the Jewish Museum is also located, as well as various other buildings dating from the times of the local textile industry’s splendour, which today are in abeyance and abandoned. For one of the best examples of these old factories, the idea is to rehabilitate it and turn it into a school of crafts. Moreover, the intention is to build a student’s hall -to hold the future attendants of the aforementioned institution- in a vacant plot of land located in the same area. Special attention will be set on giving the public spaces a new design, aiming to turn the area into a pleasant and welcoming one for the neighbours, attracting once again the population towards it. With this whole intervention the objective is to create a new focus of activity which contributes to retrieving the social and economic wellbeing of the degraded historic city centre of Bejar.
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