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This was announced this Monday by the Vice President of Cantabria and Minister of Culture, Pablo Zuloaga, who has also advanced that the regional Executive intends to acquire the farms around Sobrellano to expand its gardens.
Accompanied by the mayoress of Comillas, Teresa Noceda, and the general director of Cultural Heritage, Zoraida Hijosa, Zuloaga explained that this week the facades will be covered with scaffolding to carry out all the necessary consolidation, cleaning and antifungal treatment of all the perimeter of the pantheon chapel.
This building, designed by Joan Martorell and built in the 19th century, is in the neo-Gothic style.
A work process similar to that of the rehabilitation of the Sobrellano Palace, which was undertaken last year, has been planned to “show off in an extraordinary way” this asset of cultural interest that is the heritage of the Cantabrian Government and that Zuloaga sees as a focus of attraction of visits, “not only to Comillas, but to all of Cantabria”.
One more work in Comillas
The vice president has vindicated the commitment of the Government of Cantabria for the consolidation and enhancement of assets of cultural interest as “economic vectors that generate employment in the territories and as a guarantee of sustainable tourism development.”
“Within six months we will see these works finished and the entire Sobrellano complex look as it did when it was inaugurated,” he said.
Zuloaga also recalled that two weeks ago the rehabilitation of the Basilica of the Major Seminary of the University of Comillas finished, with an investment of more than one million euros undertaken thanks to the contribution of the 1.5% cultural sector of the Ministry of Transport, which, In addition to serving to consolidate the structure, it has made it possible to recover tapestries, chairs and carpentry.
«And a particularly important recovery has been that of the organ, which was disassembled when the basilica was acquired. It looks like it has never looked”, said Zuloaga, who has advanced that the regional Executive will put it to work “soon”.
The mayoress of Comillas thanked the Government for “the great interest” in the “modernist jewels” of her municipality, which she advocates “preserving and caring for”.
He acknowledged that the government team of the Comillas City Council are “very satisfied” with the development of the works in the seminar, as well as with the start of this in the pantheon chapel of the Sobrellano Palace, “another modernist jewel of Martorell that looks like a cathedral in small”, has opined.
They seek to expand the gardens of the Sobrellano Palace
During his visit, to questions from journalists, Zuloaga pointed out that the Government of Cantabria intends to acquire the farms around Sobrellano to expand its gardens.
These farms, as he has said, are protected by the town planning regulations and are privately owned.
For this reason, the Government is in “conversations” with the owners to study acquisition routes such as the purchase or expropriation of these gardens, which it has described as “historic”.
The objective is “to recover all the splendor of an environment that even has small buildings and archaeological remains that could be recovered and further increase the attractiveness” of Sobrellano, Zuloaga explained.
The mayoress explained that, at the time, they were part of the whole environment. “They brought in the best English landscape artists to recreate the landscapes of that country,” she added.
Since they belong to private properties, it has had an impact, that the Government “has an interest in recovering it and expanding the environment would be spectacular and very beautiful.”