Portal de Lorca
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July 18, 2012.
The Councillor for Culture of the City of Lorca, Sandra Martinez, visited this morning the recovery works Porche de San Antonio, which is scheduled for later this summer.
The mayor explained that this is a project hosted the program budget of the General Secretariat of Institutional Relations and Coordination of the Ministry of Public Works to carry out actions related to the Cultural 1%.
We're talking about an action materialized through an agreement between the Ministry of Development and Lorca City Council last October.
Work completed to date have focused on the demolition of the top floor and the cloth removed from affected and restoration of the lost volumes to coronation.
The tasks also included the raised battlements and reconstruction of the floor deck with existing systems and touch-up spot cracks and sealed them with lime mortar, together with a general cleaning of the porch.
The main damage had this construction as a result of earthquakes were:
Cracking of its corners with factory collapse outward, with evident danger of collapse of any parts of the factory.
Landslides and falling masonry and fragments of works to the public highway.
Landslides and fall of one of its battlements into the peril of falling to some other street that are left in an unstable situation.
Cracks and general collapse in the cladding masonry works above the intermediate level of the floor.
The wall located above the pointed arch has been in a very unstable situation, presenting risk of collapsing into the street.
As a result of movements and crashes into the factories of the enclosures, there has been a pronounced gap between the last board forged housing.
and one of the vertical walls.
Fracture and detachment of part of the slab of concrete arches cover.
Widespread cracking of the roof of the upper floor, which mark the movements that have been the beams and arches with the displacements suffered by the vertical walls of the factory.
Fracture and a broken deck flooring.
Widespread cracks on walls and paneling, cracking with occasional loss of picture layer of the image of San Gines de la Jara.
Break point and cracking of the voussoirs of the pointed arch entrance.
It should be remembered that this work of restoration has a total budget amounting to 89,503 euros and that the work is executed and almost 70%.
A porch with a long history.
The Porch of San Antonio and its surroundings are the best preserved medieval gate in the Region of Murcia, door is currently in use continues to serve the purposes for which it was built, communicate the top of the city with the lower population.
Your type of construction gives also a plus.
Their arrangement is part of the type of entry doors by side, used mainly in the Islamic period, and is one of the few surviving examples in the region.
Built in the fourteenth century replacing an earlier, Arabic, with the same layout as this, and flanked by two tall towers is part of the historical-artistic town of Lorca is considered to be of Cultural Interest (BIC) as part of the medieval defensive network of the City.
The Porch of San Antonio is listed in the Special Protection Plan and comprehensive rehabilitation of the historic-artistic Lorca (PEPRI).
Ownership of Real Property is for the City Council of Lorca.
Intervened, inconclusively, by architect D.
Pedro Antonio San Martín Moro for the years 1965-1969 was finally restored by another project, much later, during the years 2005-2007 by the architects Francisco Jose Fernandez Guirao, Jerome Granados Maria Hernandez Gonzalez and Isabel Sanchez.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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