The project to build a hotel in the building where the old Royal Customs of Cordoba was built continues with the latest municipal procedure and now only with the authorization of the Cultural delegation of the … Junta de Andalucía, which must decide on heritage issues.
This Tuesday, the plenary session of the City Council approved the innovation of the Special Plan for the Historic Ensemble of Córdoba and the General Plan for Urban planningon the modification of the levels of intervention in this building, which overlooks the river and is located a few meters from the Puerta del Puente, the Visitor Reception Center and the Mosque-Cathedral.
The procedure takes place after having been approved by the Municipal Directorate of Urban Planning, with all the obligatory reports, as recalled by its president, Miguel Angel Torrico. And there was controversy from the Hacemos Córdoba group, which requested the removal of this item from the plenary agenda.
Jose Carlos Ruizmunicipal councilor of Hacemos Córdoba, assured that his position “is accompanied by all responsibility and conscience, since it can create a negative impact on the environment”. heritage“. “We are not here to approve what is legally possible, but also what is legitimate,” he assured, because we fear “an irreversible impact”.
This is why they are asking for a “heritage impact study” and the participation of the organization. Icomoswhich advises UNESCO on these issues. Torrico argued that the authorization insists that the surface cannot be modified and that it must have the approval of the Heritage Commission of the Delegation for Culture of the Junta of Andalusia. In other words, this is how the heritage would be safeguarded.
Project
“If it wasn’t a hotel “I would not have so many scruples,” said Miguel Ángel Torrico, who recalled that he uses the old Mezquita hostel with new land, so the use does not change. In plenary session, the withdrawal of the point was voted first, which Hacemos Córdoba and the PSOE supported, and which was not followed by the vote of the PP and Vox.
Then the point was voted as it is, with the yes of the PP, PSOE and Vox and the only against of Hacemos, with which the proposal continues while waiting for the authorisation of Culture in purely heritage matters.
Thus, a project which lasted 40 months and more than 400 procedures is approved, to create a hotel with 70 rooms in a “boutique” format, which must incorporate a Mudejar coffered ceiling and original frescoes from a complex originally built in the Middle Ages.
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