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The Palace building tasks focus on "hold" the property, and it will take to complete a series of performances in the different rooms of the same so that the building can be visited by the public before final years.
June 19, 2012.
The Councillor for Culture of the City of Lorca, Sandra Martinez, visited this morning the consolidation and restoration works being carried to term in the Palace of Guevara.
Martinez said that "action is indispensable, since after the earthquake of last year the physical integrity of the building was very committed. In fact we can state that failure to act with the urgency that has been used, the Palace of Guevara today could not go on foot. Guevara was saved because they have done things in a sensible and reasoned, safeguarding a building which is the ultimate jewel lorquina civil Baroque art, a building for which Lorca is known throughout Spain as, for example, was studied in the course of art history at the high school stage. "
The Councilman of Culture has reported that the works are currently underway and being implemented by a joint venture company involving Lorca, are basically the consolidation of the Palace, looking at the structural repair of the building.
Note that the May 11 earthquake caused a worsening of the deficiencies that had the property, and the appearance of cracks in many elements of construction.
Today's activity is focused on cleaning up existing walls, which are proceeding to remove the coatings to check the extent of the damage.
During the process of withdrawal of these, is being used to complete a comprehensive study of the construction site analyzing how was the process of construction of the Palace.
To this end, with the addition of an archaeologist and restorer, with the technical team practice in this type of work.
Thus, it is proceeding to repair existing cracks while studying the construction process, which was found which had 3 phases, which are confirmed by the appearance of different elements or changed walled installation site, as in the case of different doors, stairs and walls.
Sandra Martinez has indicated that, as revised by technicians, the Palace of Guevara took to get up more than 50 years, and its current definition is the result of a construction in 3 phases, the first of which corresponds to the main facade of the building, then got up the left wing, and the building is topped with the right wing in an "L", specifying the end of the perimeter.
The Palace building tasks focus on "hold" the property, and it will take to complete a series of performances in the different rooms of the same so that the building can be visited by the public before final year (if not relevant, unforeseen circumstances).
The action includes the consolidation of the structure, especially the main staircase and the facade of the courtyard, the minced and sealing cracks and removing non-original elements such as wooden floor, false ceiling and plasterboard modern divisions.
Will be addressed after the execution of the museum plan.
The mayor of Culture said that since the earthquake, the building has undergone emergency works to literally keep her from falling.
In fact, fittings and furniture, once inventoried, had to be transferred to the Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology of Murcia, which are kept until it can return to our city.
After completing the emergency action, obtained funding for the consolidation and restoration of property to 1% by the Ministry of Cultural Development, whose implementation are underway.
Work began after Easter, with a budget of around 587,000 euros, and are expected to be completed later this year.
The scars of the great earthquake of 1674
Sandra Martinez has indicated that due to the removal of some walls have been discovered a few quirks, such as multiple cracks in the walls of the building that were a direct result of the earthquake that struck the city on August 28, 1674, when there was an earthquake in Lorca grade VIII in the Mercalli scale (which, unlike the Richter scale measures the destruction caused and the subjective perception of the damage).
He entered the category of destructive.
A quarter of the town was in ruins and killed about 40 people.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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