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The Higher School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSAM) has focused its attention on the heritage of military fortifications in Cartagena, attracted by its great potential and extraordinary diversity.

A team of three professors led by Alfonso Muńoz Cosme, head professor of that School has made during January 23 and 24 a prior recognition of the castles of Galeras, Atalaya and San Julián, where students of this architecture school should focus its didactic restoration, rehabilitation or reuse projects.

For this, about 100 students of the ETSAM will visit these three fortifications during the month of March and will carry out the corresponding field work.

The visit was being coordinated since October by AFORCA, a veteran association for the defense of this heritage, who has accompanied the professors by showing them the various parts, elements and missions of the fortifications and has provided topographic, historical and planimetric information.

He has also had the support of the UPCT and the approval of the City Council of Cartagena and its area of ​​Historic Artistic Heritage, Strategic Projects and Culture, and the Admiral Chief of the Arsenal of Cartagena, as holders of part of these constructions.

The visit has been very profitable, the three professors expressing their gratitude and surprise that has exceeded all their expectations for the great possibilities and the "great constructive and architectural strength" of these three fortifications.

Undoubtedly, our heritage of military fortifications is attracting attention outside of Cartagena, becoming a “reef” for scholars and students who carry out their final degree projects on this heritage, and to whom AFORCA has been helping with information and documentation for years.

This should help us to remember, once again, the state of abandonment and deterioration in which much of it is found and the imperative need for the institutions involved to work decisively for their recovery as an exceptional heritage for their quantity, quality and uniqueness. , and without which Cartagena could not aspire to get its declaration as a World Heritage Site.

Source: Agencias