MANUEL BRAND / EPA
Storm Dana devastated Valencia in October, causing 224 deaths and significant damage to the city’s historical heritage.
The Portuguese company will be part of the project “Memorias y Heritage” to recover Valencia’s historical heritage, destroyed by torrential rains and floods in October 2024. The intervention, co -financed by a network of partner companies, will not have any cost to citizens.
In a statement, the company specializing in recovery and restoration of heritage, explained that this project is part of this project as a partner in conservation and restoration interventions, but also as COFTING ENTITY.
According to the statement, released this Friday, the project has an expected execution plan Until March 2026 and will contribute to the recovery of personal goods from historical value, artistic,documentary and social.
On October 29, 2024, the Valencia region was under the influence of “isolated depression at high levels”, a meteorological phenomenon known as Dana, which caused torrential rainfall, flooding, large damage materials and significant damages in Historical and Cultural Heritage from the city.
In addition, the storm caused damage to housing, supply infrastructures, communications and transport.
“Some goods were completely lost and some historical monuments and objects They lack urgent recoverybecause the degradation remains and advances actively, ”explains the restoration expert Carlos CostaFounder of Atelier Samthiago e.
The project, funded by the Ministry of Culture and Sport of Spain and developed by the Spanish Restorational Conservatives Association, has the collaboration of a series of partnersthrough the advice and intervention of Conservation and restoration professionalsalso fostering the volunteering of the expert community and social action.
“The financing available and the network collaboration of specialized companies allow the interventions No cost to citizens and for the municipalities affected: Paiporta, Torrent, Aldaia, Alaquàs and Picanya”, makes Carlos Costa.
Atelier Samthiago was responsible for the restoration of Funchal Cathedral, in Madeira
Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Viana do Castelo, Atelier Samthiago is one of most important names to act in Portugal and Spain in the recovery and restoration of historical heritage.
In 2021, he was involved in the recovery in the rehabilitation of the southern and eastern facades of the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral“Possibly, along with Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, one of the most important restoration works ongoing” at the time.
In Portugal, it has already done, among others, conservation and restoration work in the Jerónimos Monastery, National Palace of PenaChurch of Clerics, Cathedral of Santarém, Guarda, Viana do Castelo, Silves, National Palace of Belém and Castelo São Jorge.
The company also concluded in 2021 the Funchal Sé Restorationin Madeira, in the one that was then “the largest public contract for the provision of conservation and restoration services ever celebrated in Portugal,” his founder stressed at the time.
