The fireplace of the Mosque of Córdoba forces the incorporation of public administrations in determination making on the monument | Andalusia information | EUROtoday

The fireplace of the Mosque of Córdoba, attributable to an electrical barredora that was in an improvised warehouse in one of many foyer of the monument, has revived the criticisms that questioned that the administration of the enclave, declared a World Heritage Site, was solely within the fingers of the Cabildo for the mere truth of getting attributed the possession of the temple, after its immlatriculation in 2006. Questionation is the one which underlies the choice of the Cordoba City Council to incorporate within the administration plan of the Historic Center an modification to include the creation of an company during which all administrations – municipal, regional and state – are current along with the bishopric to coordinate the actions on the mosque.

The measure, which has not transcended the rest, has been introduced by the native authorities spokesman throughout a plenary session this Thursday during which the possession and shared administration of the monument was mentioned. Both PSOE and Córdoba have argued that the hearth on August 8, which put in test the subsistence of this constructing, most expression of Arab and Andalusian artwork, has evidenced that the mosque “is not in the best hands” and that the Cabildo, “that has the monopoly of that heritage, has proven to be unable to keep the property.” In response, the PP, which governs with an absolute majority within the Consistory, has offered the creation of that company, which might be included into the Management Plan of the Historic Center that’s meant to be authorised definitively earlier than the top of this month.

The proposal has nice significance as a result of, on the one hand, on the one hand, it entails all administrations within the coordination of the actions carried out within the mosque, together with the Junta de Andalucía, however above all of the Ministry of Culture, direct interlocutor with UNESCO or ICOMOS, which is earlier than whom the United Nations company and its advisory entity, respectively, might be directed to demand tasks for the state of conservation Humanity The incontrovertible fact that this physique is included into the administration plan can be related as a result of it’s the solely doc on which UNESCO can inform, being the planning instrument that the supranational entity considers necessary for the property registered within the World Heritage List.

“We celebrate that for the first time there is a plural and participated body of the presence of public administrations, as we have been claiming for 10 years. It is an important advance,” stated Miguel Santiago, spokesman for the Mosque-Catedral platform, a citizen entity that has made the incorporation of public entities to the path of the monument one of many axes of their claims. Santiago is lacking that in that company the entities of civil society usually are not included, whose position UNESCO itself defends as “fundamental” for the event and management of insurance policies and to make sure that their pursuits are mirrored in determination making.

The scientific neighborhood additionally considers excellent news the step taken by the City Council, though it’s skeptical by way of the implementation of this new entity, so long as they don’t overlook “the power that the Cabildo has” within the determination making of town. “Waiting to see how it is concretized, I see something positive, favorable to go to that more approved and less confessional heritage management model,” says Alejandro García Sanjuán, professor of medieval historical past on the University of Huelva. “You have to start putting the first foundations so that the mosque does not leave only in the hands of an entity such as the Church. Citizens must be present through the legal representatives in the projects, in the deputations, the parliaments, the Government of the Nation, the Junta de Andalucía … plus other type of social instances, which also have to say,” says Manuel García Parody, a professor of geograph UNED Córdoba.

The platform claims that this similar presence of public administrations within the administration plan that has simply been advocated by the City of Córdoba is transferred to the Mosquita Moschite Plan, which is the doc that establishes the rules for the administration and conservation of the monument. With this extra management, it might have been prevented that the Cabildo had a warehouse contained in the enclosure, whose danger the bishopric himself warned of Icomos throughout a go to that the advisory entity within the area of Unesco heritage made the temple final spring. It would even have been co -took with that supervision, Santiago defends, the proliferation of Catholic components throughout the house, intentionally minimizing the preeminence of the Andalusian legacy. “The fire fortunately was overcome, but what has not been overcome is the denaturation of the building that has been growing in recent years,” he says about that colonization of Christian symbology García Parody,

The Management Plan contains as an indissoluble complete the mosque and the historic heart of Córdoba, declared World Heritage of UNESCO in 1994. In the preliminary draft, authorised in November final yr, it’s acknowledged that it’s this monument that “mostly supports the declaration of universal exceptional value, integrity and authenticity” of the world heritage that constitutes the historic heart of Córdoba, but in addition underlines that it’s “ Catholic Church since the thirteenth century ”, one thing which have additionally been liable for highlighting the spokesmen of the City Council and Vox within the Plenary this Thursday.

Beyond the announcement by the Consistory of this plural organism to undertake the actions within the Mosque, they haven’t transcended their concrete capabilities or its composition. From the platform they anticipate “not to be a decorative organ, but really have a clear function with monument management capacity.”