Church of San Juan Bautista

Phone: 609 00 97 41 / 969 330 322

Fax: 969 23 50 02

Email: visitas@muralalarcon.org

Website: www.muralalarcon.org

Type of monument

Painting

History

The Alarcon Centre for Mural Art is an exceptional work, a miracle made real in the Manchegan plains. The authors dedication and the quality of his work created a support movement that began among the artistic community of Cuenca and reached as far as the UNESCO authorities that decided to contribute to the financing of a massive work, of great dedication and ambition that has already taken its place among the master works of mural painting.

How to get there

Road transport

In 1994, in the old and disestablished Church Alarcón, Jesús Mateo (born 1971) developed the first sketches that would give form to the Alarcón Murals. With absolute freedom and unusual creative potential, he give form to a unique plastic arts project, based on Nature and Mankind as the pretexts for creating a personal and engaged universe. On the 3rd December 1997 it was given UNESCO patronage.
Many different values are superimposed in the murals. History, the place, the artist the movement he created in support of his work.

According to the artist, the work expresses worlds before the presence of mankind on Earth, the origins of life, dreams, the illuminated cavern, the celestial vault, agony, life and its finiteness, with an expressive contemporary formal language and great drama.

Opened by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Mateo’s mural is already a modern landmark of the heritage of Castilla-La Mancha and visiting it is a must.

Timetables

The museum can be visited Tuesday to Friday, 11:30am to 2pm and 4pm to 7pm, Saturdays 11:30am to 2pm and 3pm to 7pm. Sundays 11:30pm to 2pm. Closed: Mondays, the 24th and 25th December and 1st January.