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The Department of Archaeological Heritage, directed by David Martínez, has hired the Drafting of the Master Plan of the Roman Amphitheater of Cartagena, for an amount of 30,000 euros and a deadline of four months.
The objective of David Martínez is that this document, which is essential for the continuity of the works in value of the Roman Amphitheater, be completed before the end of the year.
The elaboration of the Master Plan of the Roman Amphitheater of Cartagena is proposed to define the final solutions and actions that should be developed for the conservation, value and use of the archaeological zone of the Amphitheater with the singularity of the overlapping of the double wall of the Plaza de Bulls and the annexed existence of the Autopsy Pavilion as well as its urban and patrimonial environment.
The Master Plan should have a multidisciplinary content, based on the assessment of the different heritage elements that converge in it, entering into heritage and social integration actions when being in the center of the University Campus of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, areas of possible pedestrianization, recovery and landscape regeneration, as well as any other analogous aspects that result in the recovery of the space to be treated as an urban, tourist and cultural reference.
The priority of the Master Plan will be to offer viable solutions for the integral recovery action of the Roman Amphitheater and its coexistence with the Plaza de Toros, assuming both the enhancement of the archaeological zone and the urban and cultural integration with the Plaza del Hospital de Marina or of the Three Cultures and the buildings of the XVIII century of its surroundings: Royal Hospital of Marina, Real Quarter of Antiguones and Pavilion of Autopsies.
The document will be executed by a team made up of architects and archaeologists who will determine the guidelines to follow, compiling the documentation on the amphitheater and its excavations, determining its current status and containing the proposals for the necessary actions for its protection, restoration, research, dissemination , accessibility and functionality in the future.
It is worth remembering that the government team approved the presentation of the Roman Amphitheater to the 2018 call of the 1.5% cultural Ministry of Development.
Specifically, the project called 'Intervention in the western quadrant of the Roman Amphitheater, consolidation of the double ring wall Plaza de Toros-Phase 2', which will involve the consolidation of 30 meters of the double wall of the bullring, from the intervention current (in the southern area in front of the Marina Hospital) to the Autopsy Pavilion.
The amount of this project is 400,000 euros and the municipal contribution would be 100,000 euros.
It is a new technical project with a future vocation that, due to its characteristics, is perfectly adapted to the requirements of the Ministry of Public Works.
The project presented is a very important step in the urban regeneration of the environment, since the Plaza de Toros is in technical ruin since 1986 and in 2010 it was necessary to sustain it with a complex scaffolding system due to the degree of deterioration that had been achieved. its structure.
The Plaza de Toros lacks its own foundation and the coexistence between it and the Amphitheater is possible in a totally respectful way for both, as is being demonstrated in the project that has been carried out since February 2018 by the Department of Heritage.
This project, which is still being developed at present, consists of the consolidation of 15 meters of the double wall in the Plaza de Toros and the recovery of the minor axis in the southern area of ​​the Amphitheater, by excavating a set of service rooms with elevations of 3.80 meters, which preserve their original vaulted roof and which are known in detail by the textual and graphic documentation of the mid-eighteenth century.
The culmination of this phase of the works will allow to continue with other projects, such as an archaeological intervention under the consolidated wall, centered on the southern minor axis of the Amphitheater, where a series of rooms that we know by a detailed anonymous drawing from the middle of the year will be exhumed. 18th century and whose ceilings were documented in an archaeological intervention carried out in 1999.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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