The Ministry of Culture of the Generalitat Valenciana, directed by José Antonio Rovira, has directed a Requirement to Okupas of Villa Amparo to voluntarily evict that historic villa. It is a property cataloged as a good of local relevance (BRL), placing in the municipality of Rocafort, in Valencia, in which the writer Antonio Machado lived for two years.
In 2018, the Generalitat Valenciana acquired the house, with Ximo Puig as president. But it was not reformed. Moreover, it has been on October 18, 2023, with Carlos Mazón in the presidency of the Generalitat Valenciana, when the services for the drafting of the rehabilitation work project were hired, which has been supervised favorably. The award of these works is planned after summer.
Villa Amparo is located in the traditional historical nucleus of Rocafort. And is known in the Valencian Community for having also been Residence of the writer Antonio Machado in the years ranging from the beginning of the Civil War, in 1936, until 1938.
The requirement to Okupas To evict the building sent by the Ministry of Culture, it will be sent through the Rocafort Local Police After the identification of the people who have occupied the building. If the eviction does not occur, the Valencian Generalitat will request urgent judicial measures.
The proposal for the action of the Generalitat Valenciana contemplates a comprehensive intervention. The rehabilitation will respect the original characteristics of the house and its gardens. And it will also retain the values that motivated its protection.
All actions are aimed at highlighting the typology of recreation housing characteristics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, representative of the municipalities around the city of Valencia in a stage of splendor of residential architecture linked to the Valencian bourgeoisie. Housing has a Stotal built of 426.85 square meterslocated on a plot of 3,303 square meters.
