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Fulgencio Gil: "the repair of monumental heritage, above figures and data, is a milestone that will be marked in the history of Lorca" (03/10/2018)

The Mayor emphasizes that some asked us to close the doors of the monuments so that they could collapse inwards, but we bet to put our heritage back on its feet and help close the earthquake wound.

The Mayor of Lorca, Fulgencio Gil, said that there are many analyzes that have been made on the consequences inflicted by the earthquakes of May 2011 in the city of Lorca.

The damages suffered by the real estate park have been assessed, quantifying them in figures (more than a thousand houses demolished) or in economic figures.

There has been talk of demolition licenses or settlements, compensation payments by the Insurance Compensation Consortium or aid from administrations.

We have assisted in the preparation of statistics on files, budgetary calculations of millions of euros of public investment, analysis of constructive improvements or the temporary balance, year by year, of the recovery and how progress was being made.

This process has also taken place regarding the heritage area.

Dozens of monuments of enormous cultural value absolutely destroyed as a result of earthquakes.

A Master Plan as an essential tool for recovery.

Endowments, grants, projects, economic items, complications, improvements and, in the end, reopening, opening doors, returning to normal.

However, too many times the sea of ​​figures is too cold and leads us to lose ourselves in numbers, without attending to the most important thing: sensations.

Can a part of damage reflect what a blue brother felt when he saw the San Francisco tower about to creak and fall?

Can a technical report convey what the target felt when he saw the interior of the Chapel of the Rosary taken by the metal frames?

Can an architectural sheet tell how the heart of each Lorca was beating hurriedly to see the sky from inside the church of Santiago?

Can a budget convey the uneasiness before this same Theater empty, closed and injured?

We all know what the answer is.

"Close the doors of the churches so that they fall inside" they came to tell us as an emergency measure.

Cultural heritage is not just stone and canvas, marble and paint.

Heritage is our most valuable inheritance because the generations that preceded us created it and conserved it for our enjoyment and that of those who will come.

Heritage is a dialogue between yesterday and today.

Heritage is the forge of our consciences, it teaches us about art and, with it, sensitivity, beauty, feeling, the ability to transmit.

But it is also, undeniably, a contract that we sign with future generations.

Therefore when we talk about the recovery of Lorca after the catastrophe, and although we recognize that it is a unique success process worldwide, we can not exceed the flattery.

Because it was what we had to do, what belonged to us;

no more no less.

The rest of the options were not contemplated.

I ask myself, and I ask you: how could we have told a Lorca man of a century that there was a medieval castle, but that its towers and walls had been broken and had not recovered?

How would we explain to the visitor of tomorrow that St. Patrick was a monumental collegiate church if we had dropped it?

How to talk about the city wall if it had been defeated, hidden under the brush that time always brings?

Lorca is an example, yes.

We have learned a lot along the way and we can not allow that experience to fall on deaf ears.

Today we know much more about how to act in an emergency than we knew on the morning of May 11, 2011, before everything happened.

Analyze the actions, develop protocols, improve the emergency management, debug the coordination or optimize the constructive codes are lessons that Lorca has taught the world and we have to know and export.

Because natural catastrophes, unfortunately, will continue to happen.

But we can not say that we did not know how to act.

There I vindicate the importance of the process carried out by Lorca that today is a historical example on emergencies and recovery and that it has to be the way to follow.

We are also that example regarding the patrimonial plan.

But as I said at the beginning, the data and figures are cold.

For that reason I want to encourage you to try to contemplate the process from the eyes of a Lorca.

That they analyze every crack that earthquakes produced in the heritage with the gaze of a neighbor;

that hurts them, that disturbs them, that provokes the despair that caused us.

Because only in this way can we assess in its just magnitude the process experienced during these seven years.

Only leaving the coldness of the theory, just stepping on the street, the church, the house or the museum we can really appreciate what this unique process has meant that has made Lorca a reference.

These statements have been made by the First Edil in the opening ceremony of the International Congress on natural catastrophes and heritage that is being held from today and until next Friday at the War Theater, setting the example of our city as a reference to follow.

An act that has counted with the presence of the Minister of Culture of the Regional Government, Miriam Guardiola.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca

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