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El Pais reports and includes 6 stunning photographs of the Portico: http://www.elpais.com/fotogaleria/Glori ... ul_2/Zes/2
The Portico da Gloria of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela came closer yesterday to returning to do justice to its name. An ambitious restoration of the facade of the cathedral, for which the Regional Government yesterday announced a 2.5 million budget, will allow technicians to undertake a task begun three years ago with the rise of scaffolds which has since covered the XII c sculpture built by Mestre Mateo. With the announcement of the Regional Minister of Culture, Roberto Varela, the process is accelerated which in recent years was hampered by economic, political and technical disagreements.
Once the Obradoiro facade is restored they can heal the disease of the Portico da Gloria. Hidden by scaffolding, the whole object all this time has been constant monitoring to localize the problems that accelerated their decline in recent decades and to design an intervention program that will last "about 24 months," said Javier Lopez director of the Foundation Barrie de la Maza, financing entity.
The fact that the results of studies in the Portico were released the same day that the decision of the Regional Government to inject € 2.5 million to the restoration of the facade was due to a coordinated action between public and private .
The foundation has invested two million in the previous studies and disburse the same in the restoration of the Portico de la Gloria, which will not begin until they have completed the work on the facade. The 2.5 million that will go the regional government, as well as for intervention, to set up a Technical Office of Rehabilitation, responsible for preparing the way for a future cash flow, based on the collection of tickets to visitors to certain parts of temple
The structural leaks of the cathedral are an old problem dragging on from the eighteenth century. The Cathedral Program, a scientific committee coordinated by the restorer of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain and Francisco Concha Prado Surgeon, Doctor of Medieval Art at the University of Harvard, has led a hard work of documentation of the Portico da Gloria, studies of five-preserved polychrome paint layers, including the original, and environmental analysis on the influence of temperature, humidity or continuous flow of tourists to this privileged corner of the temple.
The intervention phase will begin with a six-month trial, which will continue the work. One of the most striking findings was the presence of salts in the stone, which are being carried by moisture causing the loss of the colors that once decorated the stone figures of the whole.
The techniques chosen to clean the four types of granite used in construction vary by state of conservation of stone, from suction, brush or laser in the most delicate areas, such as those in which the low layer of paint, or even parts of the figures present a risk of detachment.
Another evil, resulting from high humidity and dust, is the existence of colonies of algae embedded in the stone, which will be eliminated. Restorers will draw the wax and cement used in the past century unfortunate interventions, which complicated the transpiration and accelerated blackening of the stone. There will be a conservation plan, still being drafted, to set measures to preserve the monument, including those concerning the use and management of the property.
The Portico da Gloria of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela came closer yesterday to returning to do justice to its name. An ambitious restoration of the facade of the cathedral, for which the Regional Government yesterday announced a 2.5 million budget, will allow technicians to undertake a task begun three years ago with the rise of scaffolds which has since covered the XII c sculpture built by Mestre Mateo. With the announcement of the Regional Minister of Culture, Roberto Varela, the process is accelerated which in recent years was hampered by economic, political and technical disagreements.
Once the Obradoiro facade is restored they can heal the disease of the Portico da Gloria. Hidden by scaffolding, the whole object all this time has been constant monitoring to localize the problems that accelerated their decline in recent decades and to design an intervention program that will last "about 24 months," said Javier Lopez director of the Foundation Barrie de la Maza, financing entity.
The fact that the results of studies in the Portico were released the same day that the decision of the Regional Government to inject € 2.5 million to the restoration of the facade was due to a coordinated action between public and private .
The foundation has invested two million in the previous studies and disburse the same in the restoration of the Portico de la Gloria, which will not begin until they have completed the work on the facade. The 2.5 million that will go the regional government, as well as for intervention, to set up a Technical Office of Rehabilitation, responsible for preparing the way for a future cash flow, based on the collection of tickets to visitors to certain parts of temple
The structural leaks of the cathedral are an old problem dragging on from the eighteenth century. The Cathedral Program, a scientific committee coordinated by the restorer of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain and Francisco Concha Prado Surgeon, Doctor of Medieval Art at the University of Harvard, has led a hard work of documentation of the Portico da Gloria, studies of five-preserved polychrome paint layers, including the original, and environmental analysis on the influence of temperature, humidity or continuous flow of tourists to this privileged corner of the temple.
The intervention phase will begin with a six-month trial, which will continue the work. One of the most striking findings was the presence of salts in the stone, which are being carried by moisture causing the loss of the colors that once decorated the stone figures of the whole.
The techniques chosen to clean the four types of granite used in construction vary by state of conservation of stone, from suction, brush or laser in the most delicate areas, such as those in which the low layer of paint, or even parts of the figures present a risk of detachment.
Another evil, resulting from high humidity and dust, is the existence of colonies of algae embedded in the stone, which will be eliminated. Restorers will draw the wax and cement used in the past century unfortunate interventions, which complicated the transpiration and accelerated blackening of the stone. There will be a conservation plan, still being drafted, to set measures to preserve the monument, including those concerning the use and management of the property.
