The Sociedad de Mejoras Públicas of Cartagena is an organization deputed from the Colombian government to the protection of the historical military system which gave shape and identity to the historic town, which is included in the UNESCO’s World Heritage List since 1984. Claudia Fadul, honorary president of the Sociedad, has presented in Rome the restorations realized to this time in the San Felipe de Barajas castle. Founded on 1923 by two resolved ladies for claming attention on the carelessness of the town, today the Sociedad is still an auto-sustainable organization and it is raising funds for consolidate 11 km of walls. But it have besides the new aim at obtaining contribution from Italian institutions provost on the safeguard of cultural heritage, recalling the Italian intellects who work for spanish kings on XVI and XVII centuries, like Battista Antonelli, who project the fortification of Cartagena in 1595.
La città di Cartagena in Colombia vanta la sopravvivenza del sistema difensivo maggiormente messo alla prova dagli eventi bellici della colonizzazione spagnola in America e che dal 1984 la rende meritevole di comparire nella lista del Patrimonio Mondiale dell’UNESCO. Nell’ambito di una campagna di salvaguardia in cui si intravede anche un futuro scambio con l’università di Roma, si sottolinea l’interessante allestimento museografico del baluardo di Santa Catalina, messo in atto sulla base degli studi di Rodolfo Segovia Salas e delle idee progettuali dall’architetto Alejandro Cárdenas.
Cartagena de Indias. Esperienza di restauro Latino-Americano / Vivio, beatrice assunta. - In: ARKOS. - ISSN 1974-7950. - STAMPA. - 6:(2004), pp. 18-21.
Cartagena de Indias. Esperienza di restauro Latino-Americano
VIVIO, beatrice assunta
2004
Abstract
The Sociedad de Mejoras Públicas of Cartagena is an organization deputed from the Colombian government to the protection of the historical military system which gave shape and identity to the historic town, which is included in the UNESCO’s World Heritage List since 1984. Claudia Fadul, honorary president of the Sociedad, has presented in Rome the restorations realized to this time in the San Felipe de Barajas castle. Founded on 1923 by two resolved ladies for claming attention on the carelessness of the town, today the Sociedad is still an auto-sustainable organization and it is raising funds for consolidate 11 km of walls. But it have besides the new aim at obtaining contribution from Italian institutions provost on the safeguard of cultural heritage, recalling the Italian intellects who work for spanish kings on XVI and XVII centuries, like Battista Antonelli, who project the fortification of Cartagena in 1595.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.