Monumental Catalog of Spain

Abstract

The Monumental Catalog of Spain is back at the CSIC after the restoration and digitization process that has been carried out at the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain (IPCE) between 2008 and 2011. Monumental Catalog of Spain is the name of a project conceived at the beginning of the 20th century with the aim of inventorying and describing the monumental heritage of each of the Spanish provinces and publishing the results. It was the first Spanish project that incorporated photography as a scientific method for the documentation of objects and landscapes, and was used as a complement to a systematic description of the wealth of heritage existing in each of the provinces of Spain. In the first decades of the 20th century, the people in charge of developing the project, most of them specialists in the field, were appointed and the first studies began to be carried out.

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