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The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, through the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain (IPCE) has completed the restoration of the Cathedral of Santa María la Vieja (Cartagena), also known as the Old Cathedral.
The investment of the restoration of the cathedral, begun in May 2011, has been a total of € 252,199.71.
In this restoration project, the EICP has developed a comprehensive historical research, extensive archaeological work and basic actions to consolidate the items that remain standing.
This has provided a better understanding of the building, making it possible to guide the works carried out to integrate the temple in the archaeological and cultural complex which is near the Roman Theatre in Cartagena, while enabling future retrieval as a place of worship.
The intervention has been to solve the main problems arising from construction of the whole action of moisture and piers have been repaired, coronations of the walls and buttresses.
The walls had a high degradation and have been restored.
The chapels also the subject of restoration, including window and door woodwork, paintings and decorative elements.
During construction it was discovered he suffered a serious deterioration of wood structure of the dome of the chapel of Cristo del Socorro, so that had to be replaced.
The archaeological work conducted in the chapel of San Ildefonso revealed the existence of a Roman flooring in good condition that has been maintained as the chapel floor.
The Cathedral of Santa María la Vieja was begun in the late thirteenth century, although it underwent successive alterations and modifications throughout history.
Foundation problems caused the collapse of the apse and much of the north gable was rebuilt in the early twentieth century in Romanesque style.
During the Civil War the church was partially destroyed and emptied of shrines, altars and images, while maintaining pillars, columns, part of the neo-Romanesque facade and the chapels of San Ildefonso, the Christ of Socorro and the chapel of Virgen del Rosell Council or.
Source: Delegación del Gobierno en Murcia
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