Castle Walls Restored

Almuñecar’s iconic Castillo de San Miguel is getting immoderate much-needed attraction aft portion of its eastbound wall suffered a illness earlier this month.

The municipality hallway has launched urgent works, investing €25,000 to stabilise nan vulnerable section, which had already been weakened by dense rains backmost successful March.

Mayor Juan José Ruiz Joya, joined by councillors for Culture and Heritage, Alberto García Gilabert, and Public Works, Francisco Rodríguez, visited nan tract past week. “The attraction of nan castle is simply a continuous task that cannot extremity if we want to guarantee its preservation, because we are talking astir 1 of nan awesome symbols of Almuñécar,” said nan mayor.

The involution has been thing but straightforward. As García Gilabert reminded, San Miguel is simply a declared Bien de Interés Cultural, which intends each action requires painstaking readying and maximum practice protection.

Alongside nan engineering, there’s besides fascinating archaeology unfolding. Manuel Pérez Asensio, an master successful mediaeval architecture, is starring nan study pinch municipal archaeologist Elena Navas Guerrero. “The investigation is yielding astonishing results, highlighting nan cardinal domiciled San Miguel played successful nan defence of nan Kingdom of Granada, from nan Muslim play to modern times,” Navas explained.

The useful travel nan guidelines of nan castle’s Master Restoration Plan and are expected to beryllium fresh by nan first week of October. For Almuñecar, it’s not conscionable astir fixing stones, but besides astir safeguarding history.

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