Re-conociendo el patrimonio religioso asturiano.

Restauración y reconstrucción tras la Guerra Civil

Abstract

Religious francoist architecture in the Principality of Asturias turns out to be a hardly studied field by historiography, especially when referring to restoration and rebuilding works carried out during the 1940s. This is the main reason why a research which covers that emptiness was considered necessary, since it also can provide information for an accurate authenticity critique of those monuments as well as offer the data required for a proper heritage guardianship. The method used has been provided by the research project ‘The restorer architects in the Spain of Francoism. From the ongoing Law of 1933 to the reception of European theory’ (ref. HAR2015-68209-P) to which is connected the Thesis Dissertation developed by the author at the University of Oviedo currently and in which this research is included. More than 230 out of 246 projects found at the Archivo General de la Administración in Alcalá de Henares deal with the restoration and rebuilding of parish churches in the 1940s, a fact that shows how important it is to study them to find out again the history of our heritage.