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The City of Lorca concludes rehabilitation Porche de San Antonio, damaged by earthquakes (04/12/2012)

The councilman of Culture, Sandra Martinez, is pleased recovery of this part of the historical heritage Lorca, offering for the first time the possibility to access the upper viewpoint.

The councilman of Culture of the City of Lorca, Sandra Martinez, reported to have completed the rehabilitation of the Porch of San Antonio, damaged by the earthquake of May 11, 2011.

Martinez has expressed his satisfaction that with the completion of this action is a step further in the recovery of the city, and more specifically of its heritage, offering for the first time the possibility to access the top of the lookout tower through guided tours.

The rehabilitation of the San Antonio Porch represents an investment of 89,503 euros, the program received a draft budget of the General Secretariat of Institutional Relations and Development Coordinating Ministry for carrying out activities funded Cultural 1%.

To this must be added the cost of drawing up the project, undertaken by the Consistory.

The Porch of San Antonio and its surroundings are the best preserved medieval gate in the Region of Murcia, door, after stopping for damage caused by earthquakes, will fulfill the role for which it was built, the upper communicate the city with lower population.

Your type of construction gives further value.

Their arrangement is part of the type of income by side doors, used mainly in the Islamic period, and is one of the few surviving examples in the region.

Built in the fourteenth century, replacing an earlier, Arab, with the same layout as this, and flanked by two tall towers is part of the historical-artistic town of Lorca which is considered as a Cultural (BIC ), part of the medieval defensive network of the City.

The Porch of San Antonio is listed in the Special Plan for the Protection and Rehabilitation Comprehensive historical and artistic Lorca (PEPRI).

The ownership of the property is for the City of Lorca.

Sandra Martinez stressed that in parallel with the completion of this rehab rehabilitation council is committing two fortification towers belonging to the perimeter of the city, the tower Rojano and number 9, in addition to the medieval section of wall between the porch of St. Antonio and Torre Rojano.

Rehabilitation on

The mayor stressed that the work done has focused on the demolition of the floor above and the cloth removed from affected and restitution of lost volumes until coronation.

Tasks also have included raised battlements and reconstruction of housing forged with current systems and the timely retouched cracks and sealed them with lime mortar, with a general cleaning of the porch.

Sandra Martinez stressed that the main damage presenting this construction as a result of earthquakes were cracking of the corners with factory collapse outward, being evident the danger of collapse of some of the parts factory, landslides and falling masonry and plant fragments to the streets and inside its battlements, with fall hazard to other road some left in an unstable situation.

Moreover, cracks occurred earthquakes and general collapse in the factory siding masonry above the intermediate level of the floor.

The wall located above the pointed arch has been in a very unstable situation, presenting risk of collapsing into the street.

As a result of the movements and crashes in the factories of the closings, there has been a pronounced gap between the last board forged housing.

and one of the vertical walls.

Also fractured and detached from the concrete slabs of the floor deck.

Similarly, the widespread cracking suffered porch ceiling upstairs, which mark the transitions that have taken the joists and vaults with displacements suffered by the factory vertical walls.

Finally, it is noteworthy that it has repaired the fracture and breakage deck flooring, widespread cracks in walls and paneling, cracking with occasional loss of paint layer of the image of San Ginés de la Jara and break point and cracking of the voussoirs of the pointed arch entry.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca

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