It was at the beginning of this 2025 when the Las Armas Musical Center He closed its doors to give way to a future, still to be defined, in which groups, such as “Save our weapons!”, And Zaragoza City Council continue to have their gaze. In this sense, the Minister of Culture, Sara Fernández, has assured that at the moment it is being seen, together with the area of urbanism, who is responsible for the maintenance of the building.
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This, the counselor explained, will serve to determine the state in which the installation is located to assess the necessary investments. At the same time, Fernández has confirmed that by the Hand of the City Hall of the Zaragoza City Council The viability for its reopening would be studying.
The information has been announced in the Culture Commission that has been held precisely on Tuesday at the City of Zaragoza. The spokeswoman for ZEC, Elena Tomás, who had asked about this space, has shown her discontent with the answer since, she stressed, it is a “very important musical and cultural center for Zaragoza and, specifically, for that neighborhood”, which “has not yet been given a solution.”
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“That you do not yet have a solution to give this center, without being able to respond to structural problems, it says a lot about how you understand culture,” Tomás recriminated. “They have decided that this city is the city of the show, but not of culture,” he continued.
“I am very sad to think that it is not yet known what to do with weapons and I am surprised that, with the number of culture workers in Aragon and Zaragoza, it could not be given a solution and programming for this space,” he said.
In this sense, Zaragoza spokeswoman in common has also claimed that spaces such as the Harinera or the old CSC Luis Buñuel “have been composed of groups of people who have joined to get projects forward, working for free for others, without greater benefit than to know that they were working for other people.”
This statement has not been well received by the Minister of Culture, Sara Fernández, who has reproached Tomás: “We cannot give the public money and the public equipment to whom they want, because they cost money and because it cannot be for some entities yes and for others not.” With this, he said, any novelty will be communicated regarding weapons as soon as progress is made in the new project.
