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The Government Board has approved this morning the start of the procedure to contract the works, which have a starting budget of 359,255.05 euros.

The councilman of Culture in the City council of Lorca, Agustín Flames, has informed that the Municipal Consistory has undertaken the necessary procedures to proceed to execute the works that allow to rehabilitate and to return to locate the arcs of the cloister of Santo Domingo.

We are talking about a set that had to be dismantled as a result of the serious damage caused by the 2011 earthquakes in its structure, and it has been duly guarded ever since.

The execution budget amounts to € 359,255.05

Agustín Llamas explained that the execution of the works of restoration, assembly, consolidation and urbanization of the Cloister, are included within the actions defined in the Master Plan for the Recovery of Cultural Heritage, promoted by the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain, and approved by agreement of the Council of Ministers dated October 1, 2011. We are talking about an intervention that has been subject to a direct subsidy to the City of Lorca granted by the CARM by Decree 156/2016 of December 28 and published in the BORM of Date December 23, 2016.

Before the Earthquakes of the year 2011, it was annexed to a residential building and shared protagonism with the Monumental Complex of Santo Domingo, composed of the Church of Santo Domingo and the Chapel of the Rosary, both located on the same street.

As a consequence of the numerous damages caused by the earthquake in the Set, they were dismantled, after numbering and classifying each of their pieces, being located there from the 20th century until a few years ago.

Currently, the pieces are kept in storage.

The consolidation and assembly project that has been drafted by the architect Juan Carlos Cartagena Sevilla and informed by the General Direction of Cultural Assets of the CARM, contains the following works:

- Work in workshop:

1. Cleaning of historical stonework and ornamental elements with dry-wet wood.

2. Preventive curative biocidal treatment.

3. Preconsolidation.

4. Consolidation (part in workshop and part in work).

5. Reintegration with restoration mortars (part in workshop and part in construction).

6. Execution of lost or unrecoverable parts.

On-site work

Execution of the shirt or wraparound screen as a self-supporting structure, independent of the adjoining buildings, for stabilization and bracing of the cloister.

The assembly process will begin with the execution of a "shirt" that will wrap the three existing elevations, of the arcades, N, S and E. It is a screen executed entirely of concrete, with a height of 7.30m, and that see the trace of the arcade, with all its arcades, so that it does not interfere with the visual and perception of the old cloister.

2. Transfer and relocation of the stonework.

3. Connection of the stone arches with the surrounding concrete jacket.

4. Final works of adaptation of stone arches.

5. Execution of a roof skirt.

6. Termination of the works of the square.

The cloister is formed by three facades of arches whose structure was anchored before the earthquakes to the fronts of the slabs of the annexed residential building, facing Santo Domingo Street.

The west elevation is composed of 6 arches structured on two floors, while the north and south elevations are composed of 5 arches, also divided into two heights.

In both cases the height of the upper floor is greater than the lower floor.

This structure was gradually raised throughout the seventeenth century, entirely in stone, and in its execution participated the stonemasons Antonio de la Rosa and Lorenzo de Mora.

In the nineteenth century, and in order to open the street that circles in front of the Set, one of its sides was removed, specifically, the east façade, as well as an arch of each of its north and south ends.

The building is listed in the PEPRI catalog, on property 23 of block 6. It is protected with grade 1, being applicable to urban or architectural elements to which they are given comprehensive protection, that is, they must be preserved in its unit built and in all its parts.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca