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That facade has eaten millions of public euros in several poorly made restorations on which governments never demand responsibility

IU-V will take the case directly to the General Directorate of Fine Arts and Cultural Assets, demanding the appropriate responsibilities, both for the enormous expenditure of public money involved in the restoration work and for the heritage, cultural and historical significance of the Palacio de Guevara

Last week the local media reported that the Palacio de Guevara will be open to the public during Holy Week and that meanwhile their rooms are made to make them visible, the main façade, which is seriously deteriorating, would be restored.

It was also said that the work could begin that same week.

The councilor of IU-Greens, Peñas Adoration, recalled that in November 2016 and denounced the deficiencies of a recent restoration in the Palace of Guevara de Lorca, one of the most unique and emblematic buildings of historical, artistic and cultural heritage of Lorca .

The property, declared in 2008 as an Asset of Cultural Interest with the category of monument, is, as stated in the decree of its declaration, "one of the most outstanding examples of the civil baroque of the Spanish Levante".

This cataloging contrasts, the councilor maintains, with the quality and effectiveness of the restorations to which the building has been subjected in recent years.

In the middle of the 20th century, the first intervention was carried out on the façade, which wanted to tackle the humidity problems of the building, replacing part of the basement of the building with a stone that was less porous than the original one.

It was a good intervention that contrasts with the last two.

Almost two decades ago the facade was subjected to a second intervention.

The council has reported how a company from Cartagena was limited to placing a scaffolding on the cover of the property, which remained for more than a year covering it without any work and in two days arrived Cartagena workers, gave him a hand of paint, they charged a bunch of the moment and they left.

But it is the last of the restorations, just three years ago, that motivates this new reaction of IU-V.

Adoración Peñas states that three years ago, within the master plan for the restoration of historic heritage in Lorca, the Ferrovial company in joint venture with another company, was awarded the restoration of the Palacio de Guevara with a budget of more than € 587,000.

Today, three years later, this important façade presents pathologies such as the alveolization of the stone and the accelerated sandification of the same as a result of humidity, which were not adequately addressed in the restoration process of the building, and which are affecting elements significant of the ornamental iconography of the same.

Peñas already asked a year and three months ago to the municipal government of Lorca if he was aware of that deterioration, and if there was a public technical supervision after the restoration work.

He also urged the PP government to demand responsibility from a company that has taken almost 600,000 euros for a job that leaves much to be desired and on which a repair would have to be demanded at its expense.

Now we announce an umpteenth restoration on a cover that has eaten millions of public dollars, and given the lack of courage of the local government of the PP to demand and debug responsibilities, the case, he says, we will put in the hands of the Directorate General Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, demanding the appropriate responsibilities, both for the huge expenditure of public money involved in the restoration works and the heritage, cultural and historical relevance of the Palacio de Guevara, for our city, for our region and for the raise Spanish.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca