Works to preserve the Ravelin/Land Gate in Famagusta will begin and are expected to last 11 months, according to an agreement signed the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage, the European Commission, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), CNA reported on Monday.
According to a press release issued by the UNDP on Monday, conservation works are expected to cost 564,238 euros, and will be fully funded by the European Union.
Conservation of the Ravelin/Land Gate is the fourth project that the UNDP has implemented in Famagusta on behalf of the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage, after the Othello Tower/Citadel, completed in July 2015, and the two currently ongoing conservation projects related to the Martinengo Bastion and the portion of the Venetian Walls between Arsenal and Sea Gate.
Informative meetings will be held by the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage and UNDP about the chosen conservation methodologies and work plans.
The press release says that within the framework of the EU funded and UNDP implemented project on “Support to cultural heritage monuments of great importance for Cyprus”, a study “Survey, Investigations, Assessment and Project Design” was carried out between April 2014 and January 2015 with regard to the Ravelin/Land Gate in Famagusta. The aim of the study was first to identify the most critical problems, research and understand the monument and then develop the designs for conserving and stabilising the monument, protecting the elements that are at most risk while observing internationally recognised conservation standards, creating a safe environment for the reuse of the monument, ensuring access to persons with disabilities and creating a drainage system to take water away from the bastion.
The project scope is divided into two parts:
1) Conservation – to address structural and material issues.
This includes improvement works to structural elements such as: grouting fissures, replacement of stones, stitching of cracks and drainage. It also includes replacing the failing concrete cap over the chimney, vegetation removal and cleaning.
2) Functional space – to improve the usability of the space.
This includes the adaptation of paved surfaces for disabled access, electrical conduit, visitor safety features and didactics.
The Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage is working in line and within the mutually agreed framework for the preservation of the island’s common heritage.
Since 2012 approximately €11.7 Million of European Union funds have been provided by the European Commission to implement the priorities of the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage for the preservation of the island-wide cultural heritage in Cyprus.
Source: CNA
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