The Ministry of Tourism and Culture has recovered the church of San Pedro de Lorca, which has invested a total of 550,000 euros.
The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Miriam Guardiola, along with the mayor of Lorca, Fulgencio Gil, visited today the restored church, which recovers this space of medieval layout in the upper neighborhoods of the city on the slope of the castle.
The rehabilitation project consisted in the recovery of the primitive architectural space with the restoration of the geometry of the lost vaults and the ashlars of the ribs of the entrance body to the temple, as well as the consolidation of the Gothic portal, the tower, the cornices and decorative elements.
"It is ultimately a conceptual recovery of the building and its interior space away from the false history, allowing the visitor to discern the real of the imaginary.The space of the temple is already recognizable," said Guardiola.
Light materials have been placed on the new interior by drawing the contours of space through the edges of the vaults and the arches that once were made of stone.
In addition, they return to the building the buttresses where the originals were, and hollows of natural lighting instead of the windows already disappeared.
A 40-square-meter photographic mural reproduces the original altarpiece.
This action is included in the Master Plan for the Recovery of the Cultural Heritage of Lorca, for which this year there are consigned about six million euros with which it is expected that "the recovery of the cultural heritage of the city, model of effectiveness and management and whose work is an international benchmark. "
Temple of Saint Peter
The temple of San Pedro, of the XV century and desacralizado for the cult by its situation of ruin, has vault and baroque cover and ogival rib in the presbytery.
This church, which was devastated by the earthquake of 1674, has since been in ruins and its condition was aggravated by the earthquakes of May 11, 2011.
Source: CARM