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The Minister of the Vertebration of the Territory, Mobility and Housing, José Luis Soro, has visited the rehabilitation works that are being carried out in the church of San Francisco de Teruel and that are co-financed through the FITE. Phase 3 and 4 of the works, which is being carried out at the moment, will end next June and will represent an outstanding performance that “includes the necessary work to renew the interior paving of the church, the installation of a heating system by underfloor heating with a gas boiler, the restoration of the lower part of the interior walls and the restoration of stained glass windows and stone tracery that contain them ”. The counselor was accompanied on the visit by the general director of Housing and Rehabilitation, Verónica Villagrasa, and by the provincial director of the Department of Territory Vertebration, Mobility and Housing, Ignacio Belanche.
A total of 485,000 euros are invested in this phase. The total amount of the investment, adding the other phases, is 970,000 euros “which reflects the commitment to this building that is” the only representative monument of Mediterranean Gothic in Teruel. In the first phases, urgent tasks were developed for the consolidation of roofs, cornices, sealing cracks, consolidation of specific elements ”.
As the counselor has pointed out, “action was taken to solve damp problems in the walls, restore the main and side façades, carved in stone and intervened in stained glass windows on the main façade”.
The church of the Convent of San Francisco was built between 1392 and 1492, with a single rectangular nave without a transept, topped by a polygonal apse at its head, responding to the characteristics of the so-called Mediterranean Gothic with a single nave, chapels between buttresses, small openings and decoration sober.
The nave is divided into five sections with chapels between buttresses and its head is topped by a polygonal apse with five equal sides. All sections of the nave and the side chapels are topped by ribbed vaults and with a sloping gable roof in the nave, three in the apse and one water in the chapels.
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