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Professor Juan Carlos Molina, who has done a comprehensive record of all interventions in the cathedral complex since 1928, proposing to update the Master Plan and a multidisciplinary manager for conservation

Seven centuries later, the Cathedral of Murcia remains a "hull" in the words of the new doctor from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) Juan Carlos Molina Gaitán, who this month has read his thesis' History of the restoration of the Cathedral Murcia ', which makes proposals for the conservation of the cathedral complex as updating the Master Plan of the Cathedral, which dates from the 90s, and the creation of a "multidisciplinary management body, following the guidelines of the National Plan Preventive Maintenance "he explains.

The author, who is an associate professor at the Polytechnic and Technical Advisor Heritage Service Community professor, has compiled in his thesis exhaustively all existing documentation, and scattered about interventions that were performed in the Cathedral from 1928 when Vélez Chapel was declared a National Monument, until 2010. His conclusion is that the building "has not failed to transform".

Among the transformations of the last century in the cathedral stands the pedestrianization of its environment, the demolition in 1979 of the House of Sacristans and construction, in the 40s, shopping arcades in the space occupied by the cloister of the cathedral.

Indeed, behind one of the stores whose lease just beat may be part of a Gothic doorway.

As Molina asks in his research: "How should we raise future restoration of this element as aggressively altered?

¿Prioritizing its monumental and historical value, being the oldest building of the Cathedral, or prioritizing the social value of its current use ?.

Must be a reflection for a multidisciplinary team and needed research, "he concludes.

"Any heritage intervention is based on knowledge," he says.

And, evaluating diverse interventions in the Cathedral, where for 80 years the author has participated personally Molina judges that "the failures have been due to lack of prior research."

Among the gaps and uncertainties that still throws the old building, you will find the precise location of the Great Mosque on which the temple stood.

Another ground that intrigues the researcher is the cobblestones of the Plaza de la Cruz, hiding the first meter tower of the Cathedral, "exceptional stature" he says, and a shelter from the Civil War.

"Understanding what may have with geo-radar is not easy, an archaeological methodology is required."

The thesis has been conducted within the PhD Program 'Architecture and Technology

Building 'and under the supervision of Dr José López Calvo, UPCT, and Jose Castillo Ruiz, University of Granada.

The author, who works in the Master Plan Heritage Conservation in Lorca after the earthquake, teaches at the Polytechnic in the degree of Architecture and the Master of Architectural Heritage.

The author has compiled for the realization of the thousands of documents on architectural intervention projects in the Cathedral theses files scattered in various administrations and 12,000 photos, 1,700 news periodicals and many postcards, "very useful to display the evolution of Belluga plaza "he explains.

Source: UPCT