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This is the most important event in the commemoration by the EU of the European Year of Cultural Heritage.
It has the organization of Hispania Nostra, AON Foundation, City Council, Ministry of Culture and CARM.
The Mayor of Lorca Fulgencio Gil, said that the excellent work of heritage recovery that has developed in our city after the earthquakes of 2011 is a positive stimulus and can be extrapolated to other cases.
Lorca have acquired a teaching in the wake of the earthquakes that we now have the opportunity to export so that those people who, unfortunately, have to go through a situation similar to the one that hit us years ago, know what is the way forward .
We must emphasize, in this sense, that the design of a Master Plan for the Recovery of Heritage has been truly key.
This Plan has been reflected in practical terms as an effective script for the film of the process of reconstruction of the monumental legacy of Lorca.
The First Edil presented this morning the International Congress "Cultural heritage and catastrophes: Lorca as a reference", which will be hosted by the Guerra Theater on 3, 4 and 5 October, together with the Regional Minister of Culture of the CARM, Javier Celdrán , the Director of Fundación AON, Pedro Tomey, as well as the General Coordinator of Hispania Nostra, Bárbara Cordero.
Fulgencio Gil has said that the model of city that is being raised among all Lorca speaks of a new Lorca, stronger, cohesive and effectively recovered, within which frames a monumental historical treasure in better shape than ever, reconstructing what the Earthquake threw and improving everything damaged.
The Congress that will be held in our city will allow us to project to the whole world how Lorca is now.
The improvement in this aspect is very evident, and that is something that we owe to the strength of the Lorca pride.
All citizens are protagonists of this historic chapter of Lorca.
The First Edil has stressed that the recovery of historical heritage has contributed greatly to the restitution of the feeling of a society as a whole.
The rumble of the earthquake brought with it a profound damage to the collective emotions of each and every one of us, which we are managing to cure when we see how what fell has been lifted with
The cultural heritage has always been and is increasingly threatened by catastrophes and disasters, both of natural origin and caused by man.
Earthquakes, floods, fires, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes and wars or terrorist attacks that in recent years threaten cultural and natural assets with a frequency and a power of destruction not previously known.
The prevention, planning and technical preparation to act quickly after suffering a disaster, as well as the coordination of institutions and civil society, are fundamental elements to avoid irreversible losses and make possible the recovery of heritage.
The recovery of cultural heritage after a catastrophe not only allows to maintain a cultural richness and a possible source of economic resources but, above all, has revealed itself as an important factor in the resilience of communities, by reinforcing their identity of societies and enhance the actions aimed at their material, economic and social recovery.
The earthquake that occurred in the city of Lorca on May 11, 2011 destroyed much of the cultural heritage of this city.
Many buildings declared assets of cultural interest or cataloged were affected, as well as a large part of the building of the historic complex and many movable property.
The rapid action of the population and the institutions and the planning and coordination of interventions has allowed the cultural heritage of the city of Lorca to be recovered almost completely within seven years of that catastrophe.
This experience is already an international reference and can serve as a model on how to act in an emergency situation.
To commemorate the European year of cultural heritage, the Hispania Nostra association, together with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, and the Lorca City Council, with the sponsorship of the AON Foundation, have convened the international congress "Cultural Heritage and catastrophes: Lorca as a reference".
In the congress you can learn about catastrophe experiences in the cultural heritage lived in different countries, you can compare the different systems of protection and action in emergencies, the recovery process carried out in Lorca will be analyzed and it will be an opportunity to visit the specific actions carried out.
The Congress includes sessions for the exchange of international experiences before heritage disasters, concrete examples of reaction to catastrophes, as well as the presentation of the catastrophe observatory of the AON Foundation, as well as a day entirely devoted to learning about the case of Lorca, with visits on site.
The work carried out in the field of underwater heritage, floods, the recovery of the Sarajevo library, the EU mission in Mexico 2017, and interventions in fires will be made known, among other issues.
The contents of the communications sent to date are about risk management and heritage before catastrophes such as those recorded in Ecuador, Mexico, Mesopotamian heritage (area of ​​the Tigris and Euphrates rivers), as well as preventive management of cave paintings in the event of fires.
This will include the participation of UNESCO officials, the International Center of Studies for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), Civil Guard, Ministry of Culture, representatives of the National Library, University of Granada, General of Civil Protection and Emergencies, Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (IGME), university specialists of the Polytechnic of Madrid, as well as members of the Historical Heritage Service of the Region of Murcia and prestigious architects.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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