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The publication, which celebrates its fifteenth anniversary and dedicates its number to Domingo Munuera Rico, investigates the restoration of temples and monuments, and has articles on Carlos María Barberán, Iberian sculpture, the tiles of the synagogue, medieval Lorca and the defense of Lorca littoral, among others.
The Mayor of Lorca, Fulgencio Gil, along with the President of the Association of Friends of the Archaeological Museum, Juan José Morenilla, this morning presented the number XV of the popular magazine Alberca.
The First Edil explained that the publication includes 17 articles of special scientific and historical interest that address Lorca issues covering different eras, from prehistory to the present day, through Iberian culture, middle ages, civil war, as well as analyzing particular biographies of different local personalities.
The Mayor stressed that this publication is an indispensable tool for cultural enrichment.
Being Lorca and enjoy our municipality is a privilege, especially for the inheritance that Lorca gives to each of its residents and is a treasure that we have to take care of.
There are so many cultures that settled in Lorca that the city of the 21st century becomes an authentic melting pot that allows us to interpret the past and proudly boast of the inheritance received.
Archaeological sites, Castle, Synagogue, Collegiate Church of San Patricio, to name just a few, are the most outstanding vestiges and settled in the memory of Lorca and visitors.
However there are many things in the history of Lorca that we do not know;
and even of what we already know enough, we can know much more, allowing us to have a vision that is broad and faithful with respect to events.
That is why we need Alberca Magazine as a channel of knowledge, as an example of reading and as an essential volume for Lorca's libraries that we want to know more about our land.
Fulgencio Gil has indicated that within the research articles included in Albera is still present the ambitious process of recovery and restoration after the earthquakes that are developing in the buildings that make up our monumental heritage.
In particular, it has deepened the seismic safety criteria in the restoration of cultural assets.
It is a work prepared by the architects María García and María del Carmen Martínez, in which it is pointed out that restoration actions have been developed in the seismic safety of immovable cultural property, maintaining its constructive characteristics and recovering the materials and traditional techniques.
Likewise, seismic protection measures have been designed for movable cultural property in exhibition spaces.
The study explores the seismic restoration of these cultural assets, broken down into the recovery of the volumetry, the use of lime mortars and the systems of bracing and stiffening of structural elements, prior description of the evolution of the improvement systems seismic from antiquity to the current Italian regulations and the analysis of the importance of typology in seismic safety.
One of the buildings in which a particularly careful work has been done has been precisely the Archaeological Museum (MUAL), Casa de los Salazar.
The recovery efforts have included the execution of a new museographic project.
The permanent exhibition was mainly composed of archaeological, numismatic and medalist pieces.
Its exhibition assembly was carried out in eleven rooms, employing fifty exhibitors and nine display cabinets, classified into four different types.
The damaged pieces were approximately five percent of the collection, of which 75% were located inside the exhibitors, while 20% were inside the visitable stores.
The rest were exempt pieces located in the temporary and permanent exhibition halls.
The ceramic materials suffered the greatest breakages, resulting also damaged pieces of glass, stone, bone, plaster or alabaster.
The behavior of the exhibitors against the earthquake was uneven, with the objects contained in the showcases anchored to the wall that suffered displacements that in many cases resulted in fractures.
Likewise, the large pieces arranged in pedestals of small dimensions facilitated its overturning and fracture.
During the emergency phase, all the museum's collections were dismantled and stored.
The IPCE promoted the restoration of 158 objects that had suffered some type of damage.
The new museographic project of the MUAL, where the history of Lorca is shown from the archaeological collections, is chronologically ordered in 14 rooms, thus increasing the area devoted to the permanent collection.
With the new exhibition plan, the security of the collections is guaranteed by having been designed a museographic furniture with anti-seismic criteria, contemplating both the resistance of the showcases and the stability of the objects within them.
The exhibitors have been reused by improving their conditions, with greater weight in the lower part, and a new type of bell-free showcase has been designed using bench modules that conceal the supports of the exhibitors.
For the placement of the pieces has been designed individually clamping, using metal anchors lined with plastic material to not damage the pieces, made by bending or braiding that allow oscillations of the pieces.
The Mayor has indicated that this analysis concludes that the restoration of cultural assets in the Lorca earthquake of 2011 has had as its principles the increase of the seismic resistance of the wall structures and the conservation of their cultural values, respecting all the documented phases , maintaining its function with contemporary contributions and enhancing the constructive characteristics that identify them.
The main criteria have been those of minimum intervention and recovery of traditional materials and techniques, maintaining its historical constructive process and materiality, eliminating the additions of concrete that have negatively affected the structural behavior against the earthquake.
The volumetries have been recovered with a current language and the structural elements have been consolidated, providing them with the necessary resistance ensuring the union between factories, reducing the weight of the structures, supporting the arches and vaults and recovering the slopes of the skirts of cover.
In the interventions carried out on movable and immovable property, the concept of conservation has prevailed, having adopted measures that have aimed at safeguarding the cultural heritage, respecting the meaning and physical properties of the cultural property affected by the earthquake, and ensuring its accessibility to present and future generations.
Likewise, the concept of authenticity has prevailed, understood as the sum of substantial, historically determined characteristics, from the original to the current state, as a result of the transformations that have occurred over time, having differentiated in the restorations made the materiality of the architectural elements as of the new pieces executed to complete those that were damaged.
The complete list of the articles of number XV of the pool magazine is the following:
El Cabezo del Plomo (Mazarrón): a proposal for its protection, conservation and valorization, by Samuel Diego Pérez Miras
Finding a new petroglyph on the southern slopes of Loma de Aguaderas (Lorca, Murcia), by Gregorio Rabal Saura.
The Iberian sculpture of a male head found in the excavations of the Santo Domingo Foundation in Lorca (Murcia), by Clemente López Sánchez, Alicia Soler López and Efraím Cárceles Díaz.
Archaeological data on the Bishop's Palace and the third walled enclosure of Lorca, by José Manuel Crespo Valero and Juan Gallardo Carrillo.
Restoration project of the wall of Rambla and Los Pozos streets (Lorca, Murcia), Francisco José Fernández Guirao, Jerónimo Granados González and Isabel María Hernández Sánchez.
The late medieval pottery of the castle of Jumilla: the golden pottery, by Estefanía Gandía Cutillas, Emiliano Hernández Carrión and José Luís Simón García.
The Lorca adalides in the fourteenth century, Andrés Serrano del Toro.
The tiles of the late medieval synagogue of Lorca (Murcia), by Andrés Martínez Rodríguez.
The defense of the coast of Lorca in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, by Antonio Gil Albarracín.
Smugglers and bandits in the coastal strip of Lorca, Mazarrón and Águilas through the national press (1800-1850), Juan Francisco Belmar González.
Carlos María Barberán y Plá: biographical semblance and literary aesthetics (1821-1902), by Juan Antonio Fernández Rubio.
Another look at the collegiate church of San Patricio de Lorca (Murcia) in the 21st century, by Juan de Dios de la Hoz Martínez and Luís Fernando Abril Urmente.
Anthropological study of the remains of Sebastián Clavijo in the collegiate church of San Patricio (Lorca, Murcia), Victoria Peña Romo and Luis Fernando Abril Urmente.
Small story of a coat of arms of Lorca (Murcia), by José López Maldonado.
The airfield of Lorca in the Spanish Civil War, by Miguel Santiago Puchol Franco.
Seismic safety in the restoration of cultural property in Lorca after the 2011 earthquake, María del Sagrado Corazón García Martínez and María del Carmen Martínez Ríos.
Restoration criteria through some examples of the archaeological museum of Lorca, by Ioanna Ruiz de Torres Moustaka.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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