La iglesia de las Santas Justa y Rufina en Orihuela. Evidencias constructivas para la posible intervención de este Bien de Interés Cultural

Abstract

This article is effected an historical, architectural and constructive analysis of the church of the Saints Justa and Rufina in Orihuela, as well as an exhibition in the current context of the monument for provide guidelines to ensure the coherent and respectful intervention with a Culture Heritage Site, within which architectures Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architectures coexist. In addition, we raised evidence for reflection on the major assumptions that secondment center dome in chronological uncertain. After analysis of the history of the construction of the church and his constructive systems we detected that the church has undergone numerous adversities and transformations in the time and space, coming to declare the church even in ruin at the beginning of the 20th century; the current live cracks denote generated movements, among other reasons, by the subsidence of the land affecting the city.