ENGLISH CATALAN OUR COMPANY BUSINESS LINES FEATURED PROJECTS HUMAN RESOURCES PRESENCE IN THE WORLD PRESS ROOM CONTACT US News Press dossier Monday, June 24, 2013 ASSIGNIA INFRAESTRUCTURAS RENOVATES THE EPISCOPAL PALACE OF LLERENA AND TRANSFORMS IT INTO A MUDÉJAR ART MUSEUM The 2.8 million euro project has been fully financed by the Ministry of Public Works. The usable area of the building has been increased by 20% by resorting to closing patios and hallways with glass. The comprehensive rehabilitation works have lasted two years and have been carried out without altering the original architectural configuration of the palace The company has vast experience in building rehabilitation: Lorca Tourism Parador (Murcia), Casa Palacio del Jardín Botánico (Málaga), School of Architects (Granada), the Ethnological Museum (Barcelona). Madrid, June 21, 2013. Llerena (Badajoz-Spain). - Assignia Infraestructuras, a company belonging to the Essentium group, has carried out the comprehensive rehabilitation of the Episcopal Palace of Llerena, in the Extremadura town of the same name, and its transformation into a Mudejar Art Museum for a total budget of 2.8 million euros fully financed by the Ministry of Development. The rehabilitation and adaptation works of the building, acquired from the Archbishopric by the Llerena city council, have lasted a total of two years. The intervention has made it possible to increase the useful surface of the building by almost 20%. Spaces, patio and hallways have been closed, with exterior glass which makes this material a fundamental element of the work in order not to alter the original architectural configuration of the building. In the rehabilitation works, remains of a Roman waterwheel and medieval wall paintings of interest have appeared in the oldest rooms of the palace, on which an emergency consolidation has been carried out. The main building houses temporary and fixed exhibition rooms, a shop, workshops, reception and other spaces intended for the main use as a city museum, while the backyard and its party walls are used as a “canvas” in which to exhibit a “construction reinterpretation of Mudejar art”. In the intervention of the building, fundamental aspects of the Mudejar culture have been taken into account, such as "the sound of the water in the fountains, the plastered pond, the aromatic vegetation next to the orange trees", the geometrized figurative motifs, the shaped cross that for Muslim architects represents the Garden of Paradise. Assignia Infraestructuras, has extensive experience in rehabilitation projects for historic buildings and inns. Among the most recent works are: the Parador de Turismo de Lorca (Murcia), the Parador de Turismo de Ibiza, The Palace House of the Botanical Garden of Malaga, the School of Architects of Granada or the Ethnological Museum of Barcelona (still without conclude). ABOUT ASSIGNIA INFRASTRUCTURES: Part of the Essentium group, Assignia Infrastructures is one of the leading national and international companies in the area of large infrastructure construction, with over 40 years of experience. It stands out in civil works with the construction of more than 830 km of railway lines (AVE, conventional lines, tram and metro), 440 km of roads, 15 km of tunnels and 10 of viaducts among other infrastructures. In construction, it has executed and equipped 76 hospitals and health centers inside and outside of Spain with more than 726 beds, it has built 67 stadiums and sports facilities, it has built more than 2,500 homes and 2,000 rooms in hotels and inns, as well as rehabilitating 250,000 m2 of historical buildings. Assignia Infraestructuras is part of the Essentium group present in more than 20 countries in the areas of: infrastructure, industrial sector, conventional and renewable energy, construction raw materials and industrialized housing. The group recorded, in 2012, revenues of € 441 million, an EBITDA of € 21 million and a portfolio of € 1,553 million. For more information: Isabel Saracho. isaracho@essentium.com ( tel . +34 915 672 870) Paula Nevado. comunicacion@essentium.com (tel. +34 91 601 40 39) Merger by absorption project Web map | Accessibility | Privacy policies | Legal warning