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Heritage conservation
Fundación Caja Madrid has devoted over €152 million to this programme since its start-up in 1991. This makes it the private non-profit institution putting most resources into the conservation of Spain’s historical heritage.
When a project ends, the Fundación Caja Madrid adds a new publication to its “Restored Monuments” collection, to provide a technical account of the work undertaken and attract visitor interest. To this same end, it produces video documentaries and organises on-site exhibitions and concerts, in partnership with the Foundation music programme.
Aside from its longstanding collaboration with the Madrid City Council and Regional Government, the Programme for the Conservation of Spain’s Historical Heritage has approved two new projects outside the region: the full restoration of the mural paintings in the Basilica of the Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Gijón, and a cultural restoration project on the Convent-Castle of Calatrava la Nueva (Ciudad Real).
Other 2007 events were the May opening of an on-site interpretation centre at the Church of San Pablo in Valladolid, which has so far attracted over 20,000 visitors, and the inauguration of an exhibition on the restoration of Goya’s paintings on the Regina Martyrum dome of the Pilar Basilica, which will run until 2008. Meantime, work began on the full restoration of the Church of La Asunción in the Monastery of San Millán de La Cogolla, complete with a teaching workshop that welcomed over a thousand school students in the La Rioja region.