The city council began a new phase following the consolidation of existing remnants.
Already opened the deadline for submission of complete restoration projects.
The project is financed by European funds obtained through the Urban Initiative.
The Councillor for Local Development and Municipal City Council Speaker Lorca, Lali Ibarra, has reported that the city council has begun the process to have the comprehensive restoration project of the church of Santa Maria.
Ibarra explained that the temple, once the consolidation phase of the remains preserved, will be recovered.
To this end, the City Council opens the deadline for all interested parties to submit their tender for the construction of the project.
Lali Ibarra has indicated that the project to be undertaken should achieve recovery, total restoration and enhancement of the building, taking into account and develop the proposal of the winning team, which is attached documentation.
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This will require detailed study of its current state, previous interventions and proposals for action made to give an adequate response to the requirements.
This is the recovery of the church of Santa Maria combining existing remnants, and setting a purpose which is coordinated with the philosophy of the Comprehensive Plan of the Barrios Altos, which is the recovery of degraded areas, increasing the number of visitors to the area and more Americans consider the possibility of setting his house in the area for the achievement of improved habitat.
The city spokesman has said the budget execution of the work material for a maximum of € 1,229,519.77, plus 14% overhead, 6% industrial profit and 16% of value added tax.
The budget execution by contract will therefore be of € 1,741,000.00, maximum.
The deadline for execution of work shall not exceed 18 months from the start, except in cases of force majeure.
To ensure proper execution down a technical management team and Ms. Urban Municipal Architect.
The base budget for tenders in the case of the project is estimated at the amount of € 59,000.00.
This amount will be financed within the Urban Initiative of the Barrios Altos de Lorca, funded by ERDF Priority 5 Local and Urban Development, category Phasing Out ERDF Operational Programme 2007-2013, at 70%.
The deadline for the drafting and delivery of the project is six months from the date of execution of this award.
The award will rest with the maximum period of two months.
A decisive improvement for the recovery of the assets of the districts
The purpose of this project is framed within the Urban Initiative Barrios Altos de Lorca (URBAN), in which stands the Church to be restored, affects a wide area of ​​Lorca, which has been suffering, like other neighborhoods and historic districts of other major cities, a process of emptying and social degradation.
The importance of intervention in this area derives from their intrinsic values ​​and the need to address the many problems facing its residents, some of which will derive the physical and morphological characteristics of the territory.
This program identifies projects that impact on urban space and includes performances on infrastructure, core networks, paving, lighting, housing rehabilitation, demolition of noisy areas, environmental interventions, accessibility, will have more impact on the change of status and socio-economic revitalization, and that requires more investment.
Santa Maria, a masterpiece of Moorish art
The church of Santa Maria, like this from high Lorca parishes, enjoys a privileged location.
Both for its unique plant with an unusual rectangular head, as usual in the Mudejar churches, and by its elevation, it offers us, as a complicated puzzle, the vicissitudes of the path followed by the medieval Christian art Lorca.
Conceived as a three-nave church with as many sections in the longitudinal, rectangular chancel and chapels in the same way on the side of the Epistle., And continued in the sacristy, on which stands the tower.
There is little difference in height in the three naves and the transept, just accused.
On the rectangular header opened, and in the eighteenth century, a polygonal-shaped dressing room decorated with stucco angels and murals with fake prospects
The central dome-key star central, elegant boots pointed arches, which are supported by interior columns on high bases supported cylindrical section of the slenderness of the pillars and the sharp absence of decoration, except the presence of bracelets decorated with plant motifs finely next to a watermark in the lesion of the lateral arches, and the corresponding transverse and nerves that form the vaults, we also remember the constants Levantine Gothic art.
The chapel of the owner, a polygonal shape, was built by brick on stone plinth carved run, it started up in 1753, joining the head of the church as clearly independent and meaningful piece.
In 1797 its interior was decorated with paintings definitively architectures false and false perspectives with Marian reasons, and its architects the painters José Mariano Francisco Ferrandiz and Santacruz17 browning.
The Orlo dome with decorative elements such as angels, pediment, rock and shields, in ornate style, clumsy execution, but not free of charm.
Objective: To reverse a cessation process started in 1533
The richness of its interior, its lost altarpiece and imagery speaks Montoya Lillo.
Documents the existence of images of the Virgin of the Pear, Our Lady of the Assumption, Our Lady of the Incarnation, Our Lady of transit, and the Risen Dolorosa, the work of Roque Lopez currently preserved in San Patricio, sole survivor of the events during the Civil War.
Other remains of their movable property stored in San Patricio and the church of San Mateo, a cross appeal of rock crystal, gilt, and a magnificent silver monstrance, both pieces of jewelry displays remarkable Gothic.
The recovery of this ancient temple of neglect reversed a process that began with the redistribution of tithing for the Collegiate Church of St. Patrick's from 1533 with the purpose of financing its construction, which impoverished the rest of temples and prevented their reforms, reducing its influence and culminated with the destruction suffered during the civil war and neglect in later decades.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca