The Segovia City Council has started the file to place a plaque in honor of the architect José Miguel Merino de Cáceres on Daoiz Street. Entities and citizenship have fifteen days to present allegations to the proposal.
The Information Commission of Internal government and Personnel of the City Council, in the session held on March 24, agreed to the beginning of this File of Honors and Distinctions.
In compliance with the provisions of articles 56 and 57 of the Protocol, Honors, Distinctions and Ceremonial Regulations of the City Council of Segovia, the municipal government has made public the initiation of the aforementioned file and the opening of a period of 15 business days from the publication of this announcement in the Official Bulletin of the Province for the formulation by entities and people of the allegations estimate appropriate.
The file can be consulted in the Internal Government and Personnel Service of the City Council of Segovia, located in the Plaza Mayor 1 of Segovia.
The presentation of allegations may be made in the General Registry of the City Council of Segovia or by submitting applications at the Municipal Electronic Headquarters.
Merino de Cáceres, conservative architect and older teacher of the Alcazar of Segovia, died at age 81 on September 9, 2023.
Born in Segovia on March 25, 1942, he obtained the title of architect for the ETSAM specialty restoration of monuments (1968) and the doctorate in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (1985). He has been a professor of the history of architecture since 1968 at several levels, Professor of History of Architecture and Urbanism and responsible for the area of theory and history of restoration in the Restoration Master of the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
He was a conservative architect, Major Master of the Alcazar of Segovia since 1973 -with numerous restorative interventions in the same and vowel of the Board of Trustees, the corresponding academic of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, architect of the General Directorate of Fine Arts of the Ministry of Culture between 1970 and 1986, representative of the Ministry of Culture in the Committee of Monuments and Sites of the Council of Europe (1975-1986) Artistic Information (1985-1986), author of more than 250 restoration interventions in historical buildings, author of the protection plans of the monumental sets of Ávila, Segovia and Cuéllar and author of the directors of the Cathedrals of Segovia and Toledo, of the monasteries of Santa María de Palazuelos (Valladolid) and Santa María del Parral (Segovia) of Segovia.
He introduced the word ‘elginismo’ in Spain, a term coined by Lord Byron to define operations, generally clandestine and with strong economic interests, dismembered or destruction of historical buildings, with transfer of their pieces to different place. The English poet tried to censor the behavior of the Count of Elgin that transferred to England Marmoles of the part and other pieces of ancient buildings in Athens.
He dedicated much of his career, beginning with his doctoral thesis, in 1970, to denounce these plundering, which he collected in different books, such as the destruction of the Spanish artistic heritage. WR Hearst: ‘The great hoarding’, and the collection around history and restoration – without its original cloister, taken to the United States -, of ‘Santa María de Sacramenia, a monastery between two continents’, which presented last year edited by the Provincial Council.
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