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This project, which involves investment of almost 700,000 euros, set the curriculum works of the temple, dating from the XV-XVI centuries.
It has been found to primitive atrium of the church, as well as paintings, woods, and unknown archaeological levels.
The Councillor for Culture of the City of Lorca, Sandra Martinez, this morning visited the work to improve recovery of the church of San José, along with the heads of the performance itself, under the Diocese of Cartagena.
The mayor noted that the works were started about a month and a half ago, with an investment of around 700,000 euros, funded in large part by the CARM.
We are talking about a temple which recorded extensive damage by earthquakes of 2011, which affected its structure and ornamental elements housed inside.
The mayor of Culture has shown Ayuntamiento satisfaction with the progress taking place in this performance, highlighting his joy at the start of construction of a church whose membership is in luck today.
Jobs are being developed by a company Lorca, and, to date, have focused primarily on the start of the relevant pictorial and archaeological tastings, trying to establish a historical and evolutionary profile of the property as a whole, starting from origin of the church, possibly between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Juan de Dios de la Hoz, responsible for the technical direction of this intervention, explained that the work to correct the damage caused by the earthquakes of 2011 have brought to light some surprises that are a real gift for the building.
This is a circumstance that has occurred in the numerous elements of Lorca heritage that have been fixed after the earthquake of 2011. In the course of these studies have found a quantity of paint, wood, and archaeological levels at which no we had.
The goal we have set ourselves once we become aware of these findings, is to put them in value within the building in order to increase their interest and history.
So far the intervention has been done on the walls of the building, while the archaeological work will begin next week.
To date the work in the temple have uncovered an access that connected the real churchyard, facing south, with the nave.
Also have been some pictorial elements that decorated capitals and scrolls.
Currently working to recover and provide the most outstanding chapel its true light.
The idiosyncrasies of the temple at this time impossible to establish what were the successive additions and alterations it has undergone, so progress is being made to define this particular curriculum.
What does seem clear is that you were doing in the genesis of the property, works inside for a period of 100 years, which was interrupted during the nineteenth century.
Later in the twentieth century, recorded other works, but of very poor quality.
The challenge now is to determine what is worth, for its historical value, conserve and enhance.
To this end term is going to take two archaeological tastings;
one in area cruise, particularly in the feet of a pilaster, aimed at establishing the archaeological and flooring levels (including determination of hypothetical graves and crypts), and a tasting in which we believe could be access to the atrium, where expect to find classic floor boulder that was used at that time.
It should be emphasized that the vault of the nave is almost entirely destroyed, and is unrecoverable so it will proceed with the withdrawal of its elements from falling, proceeding to the construction of a new vault.
The state cruise dome seems, according to what seen to date by technicians, sure.
The work will last for approximately one year.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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