Experts will analyze in the Alhambra the politics concerning the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Democratic Spain

The Palace of Charles V will be the location for the scientific conference on the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Democratic Spain. The conference is expected to inform the Scientifics and the general public about the most important results of the research project with excellence entitled Estudio comparado de las políticas de protección del Patrimonio Histórico en España. Creación del Observatorio sobre el Patrimonio Histórico Español – OPHE (“Comparative studies on the politics concerning the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Spain. Creation of the Observatory for Protection of Spanish Cultural Heritage“) granted by the Regional Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economy of the Andalusian Government for the period of 2006-2009.
The conference was inaugurated this morning by María del Mar Villafranca, Director of the Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife, Ignacio Henares Cuéllar, Chair of Art History and Head of the Department of Art History and Music at the University of Granada (UGR), and José Castillo, Director of the OPHE. The conference will be held until October 28 at the Palace of Charles V in the Alhambra. The Department of Art History and Music of the UGR and the OPHE were responsible for its organization, in collaboration with the Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife, the Regional Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economy of the Andalusian Government and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
In this meeting, the researchers of the different areas which participated in the project with excellence will expose the results of their research. More than 100 students have been registered for the conference, most of them students of Art History.
Besides the exposure of the mentioned research results, there will also participate other experts in the field, as Luis Lafuente, Ex-vice-president of Cultural Heritage within the Ministry of Culture, Miguel Ángel Álvarez Areces, President of the Asociación de Arqueología Industrial, Patrimonio Cultural y Natural, or Gabriel Morate, Director of the Program for Preservation of Spanish Cultural Heritage of the Fundación Caja Madrid.