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The Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment, Javier Celdrán, announced today that emergency works will be completed shortly to ensure the safety of people and the integrity of the façade of the church of the Monastery of Santa Clara la Real de Murcia, The risk of detachment from part of an eaves.
Last July, and after the visit of technical staff of the General Directorate of Cultural Property, a protective screen was installed immediately as access to prevent anyone from being damaged.
Since then, as recalled by the Minister of Culture after visiting the property this morning, "studies and actions began to solve the damages in this monumental complex that has the category of Property of Cultural Interest, thus ensuring the integrity of the property and Its conservation ".
After the installation of a scaffold, the facade of the Monastery could be accessed to check the deteriorated areas and to eliminate the loose parts.
Celdrán said that "there has been a general cleaning and sanitation of weak parts with danger of detachment, in addition to the restoration of cornices."
With these actions, which have an investment of almost 27,500 euros, it guarantees the stability and subjection of all the elements, replenishing the parts disassembled or lacking.
In addition, the general finishing and color matching is being done.
Celdrán recalled "the interest of the regional government to ensure the integrity and maintenance of heritage, both historical, artistic and cultural, so that it continues to enjoy the citizens and continue as a complaint to those who visit the region."
Monastery of Santa Clara
The Monastery, located in the center of the city, was founded on the ruins of the Islamic palace built between the 12th and 13th century, where the Santa Clara Museum of Murcia is also located in another area, which is managed by the Community.
Between centuries XII and XIII, the enclosure where the Monastery of Santa Clara the Real and Santa Clara Museum, at that time in the extramuros of the medina of Murcia, constituted the real almunia or recess residence of the Islamic rulers.
The whole was surrounded by orchards and gardens that occupied a great extent.
It was palace dwelling in time almorávide and during the reign of Ibn Mardanish (1147-1172).
At the time before the conquest, the last Muslim ruler, Ibn Hud (1228-1238), remodeled the whole and had a new building built, the palace that is kept in perfect condition in its northern sector.
This smaller palace is the example of 13th century Islamic palatine architecture best preserved in the Iberian Peninsula.
After the uprising of the Mudejar, the palace passed into the hands of the Christian monarchy and became a royal house.
In 1365 it was when King Pedro I delivered the old Muslim palace to the Franciscan Order of the Poor Clares, who guarded the monumental complex until today.
In its facilities rose a gothic church attached to the palatine assembly, of which today a magnificent dome of dragons in the old room of the high choir is conserved.
The large pool was also amortized, which can be visited occasionally on tours organized by the Santa Clara Museum.
At the beginning of the Modern Age was built the double Gothic gallery and, in the seventeenth century, the old temple was replaced by a baroque church.
No significant new renovations were made until the twentieth century, when the Order of the Poor Clares sold the west wing of the monastery.
In the 1980s excavation and restoration work began to be carried out, bringing to the fore structures of the 12th century palace.
Later, in the works of remodeling of the convent, new decorative and sculptural remains of the north wing of the thirteenth century Muslim palace were discovered.
The later works allow to admire today the vestiges of these two palatine sets in which the Santa Clara Museum is installed.
Source: CARM
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