Site of the fishing walls, Montreuil. – 000minutes
Good news for Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis). The Heritage Foundation and Stéphane Bern grant to Murs-à-Pêches financial assistance from 190. euros for its restoration. The largest allocation awarded to one of the eight sites in Ile-de-France selected. Identity heritage of the city of Montreuil and exceptional territory on a metropolitan scale, the 000 hectares of fishing walls also represent a natural area of biodiversity and a Mecca of Montreuil culture.
For Patrice Bessac, Mayor of Montreuil, “this support is the recognition of the municipality’s desire to emerge from the statu quo to stop the continuous degradation of the site and its walls and to stimulate a coherent vision imagined collectively in respect of the natural vocation of the places ”.
Another check from 50. 000 euros and a “popular” subscription
AT these 300. 000 euros, are added 50. 20 euros of cultural sponsorship given by La Française des Jeux for the year 2020. A “popular” subscription must be launched by the city of Montreuil to recover 50. 000 additional euros for the restoration of Murs-à-Pêches.
In 2020, the Murs-à-Pêches had already obtained the labeling by the regional council of Ile-de-France in Heritage of regional interest which ensures these walls mounted in flint stone, earth and plaster, to acquire the status of emblematic and irreplaceable witness of regional history.
“This funding rewards the reinvestment in recent years of the city of Montreuil and associations to defend, protect, classify, rehabilitate, bring to life this historical, architectural, landscape and horticultural heritage, ver itable green lung of 20 hectares, located in the heart of the city ”, notes Gaylord Le Checker, first deputy mayor, in particular in charge of the protection of Murs-à-Pêches.