Arumbered, used as parking, out of the way, underutilized, forced to close due to serious deterioration problems … a good part of the archaeological, artistic and historical heritage of Seville was before the pandemic that stopped the world in a critical state, in the UVI, but without the attention … necessary for recovery. In recent years, thanks to the bets of the successive local governments and the ‘unlocking’ of the Andalusian administration, as well as the liberalization of credit, the arrival of European funds and private investment, the sick Seville is in the plant, about to receive the discharge. With recipes still to be fulfilled, but with an acceptable tone. They are putting remedies. A study prepared by this newspaper shows that more than thirty important monuments and spaces of the city contemplate projects for its tuning, with works already underway, planned or even delivered.
These actions reach the 454 million euros, mostly calculated in the last five years. Although in terms of heritage you cannot have short -term positions, the truth is that in these cases at least – the simile – the first stones have been placed. Some of them are part of the Master Plan that approved the City Council of Seville a triennium and that had elaborated from the hand of the university in order to “intelligent and sustainable management of 130 buildings and goods” of the city.
Others are not municipal, but they have also been insufflated by the spirit of the preservation and value of these jewels. Such is the case of Atarazanasthat if the latest forecasts fail, you must open this year as the great cultural container of the city (the concrete definition of its use is the last great unknown that surrounds it). The works were resumed in February 2022, after at the end of December 2017, the Board as head of the monument, the La Caixa Foundation as a concessionaire of its exploitation and In addition signed an agreement destined to resolve the stoppage of the project for the challenge of the Association of Defense of the Heritage of Andalusia to the initial design of the action, the work of the architect Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra. Be that as it may, the rehabilitation is already finished, although the Board had to contribute 1.5 million extra given that the 20 million budgeted were initially insufficient due to the “extraordinary and unpredictable extra costs produced during its execution.” Just two years ago the Ministry of Culture that then headed the socialist Miquel Iceta gave green light to the reform and rehabilitation works of the Archaeological Museum tendered by a amount of 26.6 million euros. To that amount is added the investment (more than 3 million) that the Junta de Andalucía has invested since 2019 in the transfer of pieces and adaptation of the 700,000 pieces of the museum in the logistics center of the cultural heritage located in La Rinconada.
The centenary horizon of the Ibero -American Exhibition of 1929 has also promoted the reform frenzy. In this same environment, the works of the Museum of Aníbal González in the Real Pavilion For an amount of 3.3 million, to which the more than one million euros that was invested between 2017 and 2018 is added to restore the ceramics of the facades and the improvement of the conditions of the exterior walls.
The industrial heritage has in addition to the Arenal shipyards an outstanding exponent recovered for the city. This is the Artillery factoryanother BIC opened last October that has cost more than 22 million euros and exceeded more than a break and restructuring of the initial plans.
For a long time in oblivion or wrapped in processes, he knows the Meat marketfor which the City of Seville (5.5) and the Chamber of Commerce (1.5) will invest seven million euros to open in 2027 (after more than 25 years in disuse) as an industrial interpretation center focused on the metal sector. The Glass factory Between the Avenida de Miraflores and the Carmona road, it has more or less the same time of abandonment and an eye on the year of the municipal elections. When the works culminate in the late 2027, 13.2 million euros will have been allocated in the restoration of the manufacturing ships and the reurbing of space.
The works of the MACARENA WALLa project that has the help of the 1.5 Program of Development and Cultural Heritage and for which the 3.5 million investment will be exceeded. After these works you can go through the liza and climb to the white tower.
Santa Clara It is one of the priorities of the current government team of José Luis Sanz, which will invest 14.4 million in an integral restoration project of the convent, whose space has erected in the reference point of contemporary art in the Spanish capital. The contributions to this building acquired by the local administration at the beginning of the century has also allowed the restoration of the Tower of Don Fadrique and the Church of Santa Clara.
Religious heritage has also been recovered in the last two trienniums. The third partiesthe church of Santiago, that of Madre de Dios or the monastery of San Jerónimo are part of the package of churches that have carried out reforms, although the most paradigmatic case of the recovery of this type of buildings is that of Santa CatalinaNational Monument that opened at the end of 2018 after 14 years closed, a locking restoration and, of course, a juicy budget: three million euros. Similar thing happened with the baroque chapel of San José, which has gone from being part of the dishonorable red list of Hispania Nostra to his green list just a month ago, 10 years later, and after completing a process of rehabilitation of space and the recovery of his beautiful mural paintings. The latest incorporation into this red list is the San Lázaro Chapelanother Bic Sevillano and the only one that, despite its bad condition, especially the outside part, does not have a special plan for its maintenance.
It must be about to leave that list of the organization that takes the shame of the Spanish heritage the Pumarejo Palaceowned by the City Council for 14 years but that until this January has not started its rehabilitation works, budgeted at eight million euros.
In addition, mastodontic investments will be made in other entrenched projects, such as those that will allow recovery for the Sevillians of the San Agustín Convent – where a luxury hotel will be located – or the project Vera Sevilla that will do the same with Altadis. The museum that will serve to interpret the walled enclosure of the city has just been tendered for 2,200,000 euros financed by the Junta de Andalucía.
More entangled buildings that finally seem to be seen the tip of the thread are Santa InésSan Hermenegildo, where the Focus Cultural Center will go after its closure in 2006 or the Gavidia The former police station will also become an exclusive hotel, more than 20 years after its ruins statement that motivated police departure.
Another of the star projects of the Popular Government of Sanz is the rehabilitation and museum of the Luis Cernuda house, whose works must be completed at the end of this 2025, after contributing almost one million euros. Renfe ships (more than 4 million) are also about to open as an incubator of the European Space Agency, San Laureano (1.7) A large multipurpose center and the jail of the Ranilla (3 million) a center of democratic memory.
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