The Citadel will be arranged with concrete floors and steel rails
27/01/1910 - 00:08 - NATALIA REIGADA see the Ministry's project and rejects it for violating the monument
- The first phase of the construction also removes a seventeenth-century staircase. Lack
- little expected to begin rehabilitation of the Alcazaba de Badajoz. The Ministry of Housing, responsible for the first phase of work, and is on the table the budgets of companies that want to run this work. Nevertheless, the project remained a mystery, since there was transcended what arrangements would be undertaken between the car door and the Alpéndiz. The mystery faded yesterday as the Platform for Comprehensive Rehabilitation of the Citadel has been done A copy of the project that includes concrete floors, steel railings and a ladder eliminates the seventeenth century.
All these modifications do not like the platform consists of eighteen groups Badajoz and have called before starting the work, reviewed the project. His criticisms are based on a study conducted by archaeologist Julian Garcia Blanco and architect Javier Teijeiro Fuentes. These two professionals who work with the public platform on a voluntary basis, have studied the project of the Ministry during the last month and presented a number of objections to it. In its findings ensure that this action is an absurdity. "It will cause irreparable loss of many original features making it impossible to read historical, archaeological and construction of the monument. "
One point that receives the most criticism is the inclusion in the citadel of white concrete flooring and paving of the same material that will replace much of the original soil. In addition, the parapet, which now has different types of pavements of various ages, are covered with a uniform design of concrete slabs 60 by 120 centimeters. Again, this idea is rejected by the study of García Blanco and Teijeiro Fuentes.
"We are also concerned that destroys a stone wall to replace support by a railing, "added Fran Gil, a spokesman for the Platform for Comprehensive Rehabilitation of the Alcazaba. The railing also be of steel, a modern material that contrast with the historic. No archaeological study
What has most shocked the experts, however, is the lack of archaeological studies before starting the rehabilitation of this monument is considered the best example of Almohad architecture in the country. In their study explained that the budget for the first phase works is excessive. Specifically, this project is 1,200 meters wall, six towers and five gates that are badly deteriorated and has a budget of 2,780,000 euros.
For Garcia Blanco and Teijeiro Fuentes, expenditure and material execution of these works is excessive and request that part of the budget allocated to archaeological studies. For example, a comprehensive analysis Murari, because they claim that if not done before work could lose some of the richness of the monument. To Fran Gil, Badajoz is facing a key moment and can not conform. "After many years of waiting to fix this monument, we can not stay with what you want, this is definitive and it is important to have some common sense to give up the most important Alcazaba Spain."
In addition to the concrete, the handrails and the lack of archaeological studies, the experts also rejected the elimination of stairs to the car door. This access, which can be seen when entering the campus by car, seventeenth century which has great historical significance. The Housing Ministry's project replaced this element by a curved concrete staircase.
In order to stop all these changes, the Platform has sent the study to reject the project to all the authorities involved in rehabilitation. The Housing Ministry is in charge of the first phase, but the rehabilitation depends on an agreement between the Government of Extremadura, the City Council Badajoz and central administration.
For now, the mayor of Town Planning of the Consistory, Rodolfo Celestino, was the only one to respond to complaints from the public platform and welcome members of the same on 4 February. To Fran Gil, however, the only solution is an emergency meeting of the monitoring committee of the Alcazaba.
This body held its last meeting on 1 October at the Government Office. At this meeting, recalls Gil, attended by the Secretary of State for Housing and she pledged that the committee to appear periodically. "However, four months have passed and we know nothing. Promised to listen to the Platform and would seek consensus at the time of making the works to have the views of the city of Badajoz, "concluded the spokesman citizen.
Gil also asked to be the three administrations to commit themselves, as all are responsible for a project that qualifies as a great disappointment. "There can be bad because for Badajoz is too much at stake, this memorial will be our focus tourism."
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