After the project closing session in September, various presentations of the Living on the Cliff Project and the results of the Espluga de Cuberes Workshop were held throughout November and December 2024. The series began at the College of Technical Architecture in Lleida on November 4, continued at the College of Barcelona on December 9, and concluded at the UPC’s Polytechnic School of Building in Barcelona on December 12, 2024.
The presentations were given by Josep Coll, Xavier Casanovas, Joan Ramon Rosell, Felipe Buill, and Ariel Gajardo. These presentations highlighted Espluga de Cuberes as a unique “cultural landscape” in the Lleida Pyrenees and showcased the first steps of the Euro-Mediterranean “Living in the Mediterranean” project.
With the presence of more than two hundred professionals and students from UPC, the presentations emphasized the importance of this shared heritage across the Mediterranean. In the case of Espluga de Cuberes, the complex has been studied by a multidisciplinary group of over 30 international professionals and experts from 9 Mediterranean countries, working on the documentation and analysis of the site from various disciplines and perspectives. This first milestone has helped establish the working methodology to be followed in the Euro-Mediterranean “Living on the Cliff” Project, focused on the inventory, documentation, and preservation of the heritage of traditional troglodytic architecture in the Mediterranean.
Espluga de Cuberes has been defined as a Pyrenean “cultural landscape” to be preserved, and now, with the collaboration of the Baix Pallars City Council, the relevant procedures will be initiated for its registration as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest (BCIL) and the essential consolidation work to prevent its progressive degradation.
Video of the presentation of the workshop conclusions