The New Cultural Districts programme will promote culture in districts by bringing together around 70 cultural spaces in eight areas. In each of the Cultural Districts, a specific cultural programme will be developed through a participatory process alongside the residents of each of the districts and neighbourhoods that comprise them. This will allow each of the districts to develop a unique character, allowing them to develop and enhance their own cultural identity.

The aim is to optimise the different human and material resources available to the City Council in the districts and neighborhoods, linking culture, cultural heritage and other services and resources throughout 8 districts:

District 1. Alfonso X District 2. Agua and Huerta District 3. Murcia Río Sur District 4. Asomada - Guadalentín District 5. Fortalezas del Rey Lobo District 6. Belenes / Camino de La Aljada. District 7. La Seda and Yesares District 8. Campo de Murcia

In each of them a specific cultural programme will be developed, reflecting artistic disciplines through a participatory process with the residents of each of the areas.

As an example, District 6, called ‘Belenes / Camino de la Aljada’, shows the most emblematic places of the origins of Nativity Scenes, where Casillas, El Raal, Puente Tocinos, Llano de Brujas, Alquerías and Santa Cruz stand out.

This new programme is part of the two actions of the City's 2030 Agenda. The creation of cultural districts to bring this model to all neighborhoods and districts of the municipality is integrated into lines two and three of the culture partnership that have been recoginsed as good practiceson a European level.

One of the priorities of the Murcia City Council is to create awareness regarding the value of the cultural experience and create ways for participation, as well as defend, invest, facilitate and support initiatives, highlight strengths and identify gaps, barriers and opportunities, to improve the quality of life of the municipality.

Cultural Districts implies, like Cultural Reactives and Test Tubes, that public funding is used in a redistributive way, with the aim of reaching the widest possible range of population, supporting culture as a public service and ensuring access and participation, whilst also guaranteeing efficiency and addressing inequalities in resource distribution.

These Cultural Districts are interconnected areas, created with the purpose of generating positive synergies and collaboration in the distribution of human resources and infrastructure, facilitating the coordination of projects and specific programming, as well as the creation of strategic projects that involve peri-urban areas of the city, unburdening the centre.

This will not only allow more effective coordination, but will also facilitate the creation of routes that encourage cooperation between districts and incorporate other sectors and industries in cultural activities that can also benefit positively, highlighting tourism as one of the main beneficiaries.