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This is a performance in which more than 1.2 million euros are being invested.
Work is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2018. The installation of a wooden roof to protect the temple is already being prepared.
The Mayor of Lorca, Fulgencio Gil, supervised this morning the restoration work of the church of Santa María, an authentic jewel of the Lorca's historical heritage that is the most outstanding example of the so-called Catalan Gothic in the city.
The First Edil has stated that in just a few days, projects underway have been supervised in strategic axes for the development of a new Lorca: Environmental integration and optimization of the waste center (4.3 million), improvement in schools Ros Giner And Ibáñez Martín: 1.75 million), an integral improvement of Alameda de Cervantes (3.2 million), and today we add the recovery works for use and enjoyment of the Lorca of the church of Santa María.
Fulgencio Gil stressed that the recovery of Lorca's monumental heritage is a battery of rehabilitation and value-added interventions that are unparalleled all over the country.
Lorca, with the support of public administrations and the patronage of different companies, we have achieved what seemed impossible just seconds after the earthquakes of 2011, in view of the devastating wreckage that produced.
We have all made history in Lorca.
To this day we have our heritage recovered, and we are working so that the investments continue to flow, because the project we have for our new Lorca does not stop.
The temple began to be built in the XV century and was finished in the XVIII with the incorporation of the rococo style cover.
With plant of Latin cross and endowed with pillars with Renaissance collars is linked to the Catalan Gothic style and of the same one still conserves the pillars of the vault of crucería of the high altar and some pointed arcs.
Once restored the church, desecrated by its ruinous state will be reconverted into cultural space.
The works that were approached in this action centered on the scrapping and consolidation of the ruins benefiting a surface of 815 square meters including archaeological catas.
The last intervention that took place in the church goes back to 2010, when 800,000 euros were invested.
This action allowed consolidating the temple and managed not to fall because of the earthquakes that suffered the municipality just a few months later.
The works that have been carried out to date have focused on the consolidation and recovery of the bell tower, one of the most characteristic elements of the temple, whose initial stabilization was carried out by the City Council on dates immediately following the earthquakes of 2011 , Which provided a metal structure outside the tower that prevented its fall and allowed its conservation.
The Mayor explained that the intervention being developed contemplates providing the church, in addition, of flooring, roof and the bell tower itself.
In fact, work is already under way to prepare the placement of the new roof, which will be the most significant change in the temple.
It is an ample structure of wood finished in its upper part by tile, and that will try to resemble the original ceiling, respecting and integrating in the historical and monumental surroundings in which it is located.
Fulgencio Gil has indicated that the intervention in Santa Maria has included the accomplishment of a series of important archaeological tasks, among them the dating of the elements present in its interior and the analysis of a crypt destined to burials, a widespread activity in The Lorca churches of his time.
It should be noted that numerous human skeletal remains have been found dating from the fifteenth century.
The Ministry of Development, through the Directorate General of Architecture, Housing and Land, is in charge of executing these works, which are expected to be completed, if no relevant contingencies arise, for the second quarter of next year.
We are talking about an action that contemplates an investment of 1.2 million euros financed entirely by the Ministry of Public Works within the Architectural Rehabilitation Program.
The church, built between the XVI and XVIII centuries, has a Latin cross plan and is endowed with pillars with Renaissance collars, this church is linked to the Catalan Gothic style and it still preserves the pillars of the ribbed vault of the high altar and Some pointed arcs.
Santa Maria is one of the three Catholic temples - next to San Juan and San Pedro - in ruinous state located in the high districts of the city, in the foothills of the mountain range on which the castle rises.
The project contemplates the integral rehabilitation of the building to provide the city with a cultural equipment acting in two spaces: the material and formal recovery of the church building and the rehabilitation of the surrounding public space through the creation of a public square of high material quality And urban ".
The restoration works of the Church of Santa María and rehabilitation of the environment in Lorca are carried out within the framework of the Architectural Heritage Rehabilitation Program, which consists of financing relevant works for the rehabilitation of the Spanish architectural heritage with the Ministry's own budgets.
In these cases Fomento finances the works and exercises as a contracting body for them.
With the recovery of the church of Santa María, the Ministry of Development will have intervened in a total of five performances in Lorca, with a total contribution of around € 3.7 million: restoration of the Wall, consolidation of the Palace of Guevara, Restoration of the San Antonio Porch and emergency works in the church of San Mateo.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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