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The councilor of Archaeological Heritage, Ricardo Segado, and the municipal coordinator of Historical and Archaeological Heritage, Maria del Carmen Berrocal, have moved to Murcia on Tuesday, to the general registry of the Autonomous Community, to present the Basic Project and implementation of consolidation Of the Bullring of Cartagena (Phase I, Southeast Ring), located on the Roman Amphitheater of the city.
With this, the City of Cartagena, through the Culture and Heritage area directed by Segado, asks the regional administration to report on the project and, at the same time, to grant the mandatory authorization for the execution of the same as soon as possible , Allowing the hiring of this and the start of works, valued at 200,000 euros.
This action will be carried out by the Cartagena Consistory with its own funds.
A PROJECT FOR THE RECOVERY OF A JEWEL
Ricardo Segado expressed his satisfaction for "having materialized one of the main commitments of Government".
It is "a great first step in presenting a novel project at the national level with the consolidation of the walls of the Amphitheater," which will allow excavation.
"In this way, we can begin to musealize and open Cartagena and visitors to the Amphitheater," explained the mayor.
For the head of the Culture and Heritage area, the project presented today, along with CARM's commitment to allocate 100,000 euros to excavate and make the Master Plan "that they have demanded", is a guide to "continue advancing in an architectural jewel Roman "that supposes so much for all the cartageneros.
In line with this argument, Segado has taken advantage of the opportunity, in order to advance in a strategic project of great regional depth, to request the provision to the City Council of the item of 100,000 euros which, as has been announced several times, has Recorded in the CARM budgets for the Cartagena Amphitheater.
This amount would be articulated as an important way to give continuity to the plan.
CONTENT OF THE PROJECT
The project presented this morning in Murcia has been written by the architects Andrés Cánovas and Nicolás Maruri, with the archaeological direction of José Pérez Ballester and the coordination of Maria del Carmen Berrocal.
It has been endorsed by the College of Architects of the Region of Murcia, being developed as a result of several previous studies and multiple meetings with the technicians of the General Directorate of Cultural Property, adapting it to technical criteria.
Berrocal has been in charge of explaining the content of a work that includes "the activity of multiple technicians, architects, engineers and archaeologists" and in which they have "converged in proposing a series of actions that have a clear definition."
Thus, in the first place, added the coordinator, "it will consolidate the double wall of the bullring, doing it without drilling down. It is intended to reinforce them inside and leave that 'double u' solid enough to do The excavation below. "
With this action "it is allowed that there is an excavation and a natural transit by the accesses of the Amphitheater".
Berrocal has stated that it is "a novel project in its design and thinking. It is absolutely respectful of the idea of ​​consolidating an emerging building over another underlying one, as is the case of the Amphitheater."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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