The Municipal Conservation and Rehabilitation Office of the Historic City Core of Santiago de Compostela

Abstract

UNESCO declared the historic core of Santiago de Compostela a Cultural Asset of Universal Interest in December, 1985. The City of Santiago Trust, through the Santiago de Compostela City Council, promotes the creation of a technical Office to be specifically in charge of designing and developing rehabilitation programs for the Historic City Core. While waiting for the final approval of the "special Protection and Rehabilitation Plan for the Historic City Core of Santiago de Compostela", the Rehabilitation Office has designed and managed during one year the "Bridging Plan for Interior Rehabilitation of Dwellings in the Historic Core of Santiago de Compostela", with the purpose of improving the living conditions of its occupants by means improving and repairing works of electricity and plumbing installations, as well as of the interior finishes of such dwellings. The paper presents the Office model, the designed programs and the performance there of since the Municipal Office of Conservation and Rehabilitation of the Historic City Core was created in June, 1994.