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The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, along with the mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, today presented the draft covering the remains of Windlass Hill, in Cartagena, with the director of excavations, José Miguel Noguera, and responsible for the project architects and Andrew Nicholas Maruri Cánovas.
The project, aimed at creating an urban archaeological park, is located within the actions that the Ministry, through the consortium 'Cartagena Port of Cultures ", is planned for 2008 and 2009.
The overall budget for the completion of the roof is 1,500,000 euros, and is expected to finish work by mid next year.
As explained by the counselor, "the magnitude of the archaeological finds, when the reservoir is musealized in its entirety, will be at the height of the Roman Theatre and Amphitheatre, which can not even speak of a supplement to those, but another important group that will eventually make Cartagena on one of the great cultural capitals of the Mediterranean, if it is not. "
The conservation status presented by the building, with walls that sometimes exceed four meters in elevation, where even at times, has kept the mural in situ, was what led to consider the need to build a deck that would ensure proper preservation and exhibition of these remains so fragile.
The main element of the performance is a light covering of 1,800 square meters built with polycarbonate and perforated sheets, whose primary mission is protection from rain and sun in the most sensitive areas of the site.
The cover is supported by a metal structure that will prevent damage to the whole of the excavation.
The performance is complemented by a walkway on the urban side of the reservoir that allows a visit from an upper bound of the remains, solving visits handicapped through ramps and stairs saving mechanisms.
The site will be illuminated by general elements and natural light, in terms of artificial lighting, the building is designed for solar energy collection panels of self-sufficiency that can be installed in a second phase and obtain the necessary supply through building.
Also, the building is ready for the recycling of water may be used for irrigation in the future 'Archeological Park', being able to collect about 600 cubic meters annually, so that one could speak of a self-sustaining and environmentally friendly building.
The data available indicate that this is a public area of the city at the end of the first century BC-early AD, very close to the Forum.
Within this space, are the Baths, possibly bounded on both sides, the paths lectures, the first with more fun and functionality, the second with a more representative character.
Located on the north wall of the baths have found a shelter with long galleries and five rooms of 150 square meters Honda street connecting with the Gates of Murcia.
Furthermore, it has found a building S.
XVII three units.
Then a building has been excavated, interpreted at first as domus, although from recent studies, we propose that could have a public, perhaps as a corporate headquarters, approximately 1,000 square feet in area, coordinated with ground floor and first floor.
The archaeological excavation of the atrium, the Tablinum and four large classrooms that make up the northernmost sector of this building has resulted in the recovery of an interesting cycle of paintings.
The Archaeological Park Windlass Hill will have about 25,000 square meters, which is the largest archaeological park dimensions of the entire Iberian peninsula located in a city.
Musealization of remains will take place in parallel with the excavations.
Source: CARM
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