Analyzing The Barquisimeto As Heritage

Analyzing the Barquisimeto as heritage

Barquisimeto, as a cultural city, has a diverse accounting amount of heritage monuments, of movable and immovable characteristics;That is why, resulting, that the Lara State is considered Venezuela’s patrimonial cradle.

We must also take into account, before exposing the heritage to study, which is a heritage, this is because any reader can enter and have a basic concept of what will be soaked below in the following text type Exhibition Test.

A heritage is a set of property of a person or an institution, susceptible to economic estimation. But, as in this case we will talk about artistic cultural heritage, we must denote that: “Cultural heritage is the cultural heritage of a community, maintained until today and transmitted to the present generations;taking into account the artistic-aesthetic-conceptual sense that has said cultural heritage."

As we have already defined, in this essay, “the cathedral” will be taken into account as as an artistic cultural heritage of the Lara State to study;This cultural heritage has the real name of "The Cathedral of Our Lady of Carmen";It is necessary to emphasize a little of its history, creation and general characteristics of heritage.

In the first place, general, the Barquisimeto Cathedral, is the first massive -scale architectural project, large in Latin America;It can also be commented, that it was for its time, a fairly advanced engineering;Built by Jahn Bergkamp, which culminated it in 1938.

As general characteristics, we can say that it is an architecture for the Catholic temples led by the Catholic Church, in its external general morphology, its facade has the shape of an inverted flower down, which makes it quite modern and nothing conventional.

He also has a bell tower in one of its territorial possession corners, in its surroundings a place for the passers -by pass, common gardening, vehicle parking space, and a perimeter fence carried out in black iron, its spatial location in the planeGEO Territorial is on Venezuela Avenue between Simón Rodríguez Avenue and 30.

In its internal part it has two United Wings through a central tower, it has a roof formed by acrylic panels supported by a network of nerves made with post -tensioning steel cables coated concrete. Inside it also has a fairly extensive pulpit, pilgrimage banks made of wood with their respective recruit them, it also has confessionals, warehouse rooms, marble floor, and other elements of the Catholic sacred temples.

The evolution at the time of this cultural artistic heritage has been taken since the beginning of its construction, in 1636. At that time, until 1865 its construction is finished, after this period of time, suffered several earthquakes, which is decided, in the year 1950 to make a total demolition, leaving only in originality, the bell tower, and the clock.

In 1953, the construction of current heritage began, by the command of the architect Jahn Bergkamp, taking into account the year, practically used quite advanced engineering for its time, which gives as a product a fairly modern, novel andimpeccable aesthetics.

Continuing the line of ideas, with the aforementioned, there are several aspects and elements that make the cathedral "Our Lady of Carmen", from Barquisimeto, Lara State, make it an artistic cultural heritage of the State;As the first aspect, it is the time it has, at least the land where it was built, designated for that real estate, more than 400 years.

Another aspect that must be exposed in this essay is, of course, that of its reconstruction and modification, which in turn brought a great modernization of the sacred temple, making it practically unique in its kind, at least in Venezuela by that time by that time.

But, we must talk about the aspect that, it is considered that it is the most important;This Barquisimeto Cathedral houses one of the world’s largest Marian processions, such as the procession of the Divine Pastora, of Santa Rosa, thus hosting more than 2 million people. All these United aspects make the Barquisimeto cathedral a great artistic cultural heritage of the State, both because of its aesthetic aspects, its architectural aspects, and its sacred semiotic aspects.

Today, the state of conservation of the Cathedral Our Lady of Carmen, is quite intact, neat and rigid guidelines by the Lara State Government. From time to time, a respective maintenance is made to this heritage, that is, every year when the dates of January 14 are approaching, which is, the day of the Marian procession of the "Divine Pastora".