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Mónica González Aguilar, a student at the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT), is the author of a landscape restoration project in the municipal cemetery of Nuestra Señora de Los Remedios that proposes the recovery of the modernist garden of the cemetery located in the neighborhood of Santa Lucía .
The project is an end-of-degree project in Horticulture and Gardening Engineering that has been led by Jesús Ochoa, professor of the School of Agronomists, and by Miguel Alberto Guillén, head of the Parks and Gardens Service of the City of Cartagena.
La alumna proposes the restoration of that landscape of the cemetery, which now shows evident signs of deterioration, as well as the recovery of plant species that have already disappeared.
"Between art, heritage, history and landscape, cemeteries are becoming centers of tourist attraction and are configured as authentic outdoor museums, as well as places of stay and contemplation," says the author.
The proposal of Monica González includes the recovery of modernist gardening and the woodland that completes the architectural set of the cemetery, while proposing the enhancement of the funerary landscape based on modernist funerary botany, strongly linked to the classic symbology and tradition popular.
"Modernism can not be understood without vegetation.
It is a very important part of modernist architecture, "Ochoa says.
Cartagena is celebrating the year of Modernism in 2016 and this weekend a conference is held with this theme at the Faculty of Business Sciences.
"The lack of shade makes it difficult to visit in the central hours of the day", explains the student from Jaen.
"Funeral tourism is increasingly important and Cartagena could enter the European route of cemeteries," he adds.
Inspiration in nature
During the first decades of the twentieth century, Cartagena underwent a profound architectural transformation in keeping with the prevailing modernist movement, characterized by the great development of decorative arts that found mainly in exotic motifs and nature its main sources of inspiration.
The cemetery of Our Lady of the Remedies did not escape this current and so it is possible to find a good example of this architecture as a means to reaffirm its social distinction and show off its wealth.
The vegetal elements that conform that landscape or garden are the inseparable element of the modernist architecture that completes its cultural meaning.
Some of the pantheons as well as the church located in the cemetery are protected as Assets of Cultural Interest.
The department of Hortofloricultura Mediterránea of ​​the Technical School of Agronomic Engineering (ETSIA) of the Polytechnic is a pioneer in the research and organization of projects related to historical gardens.
The group already led in 2009 the project Recupera Verde, which allowed the creation of several companies of gardening and landscaping in historical spaces through techniques respectful with the environment.
This group of researchers brings to Congress on Modernism this Thursday in Cartagena a work on the landscape of the modernist villas of the municipality.
Source: UPCT
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