Overview

• Teams have covered damaged roofs, installed provisional beams in the Capilla de la Encarnación and carried out selective debris recovery under archaeologists’ guidance.
• Nearly 50 workers—including 38 maintenance and cleaning personnel, five restorers and two archaeologists—are engaged under the National Plan for Risk Management in Cultural Heritage.
• The Cabildo de la Mezquita-Catedral has allocated €1 million from its contingency fund to initial emergency works while regional authorities forecast total restoration costs above €2 million.
• Emergency interventions remain on track for completion by the end of August, with final timing contingent on the progress of on-site stabilization and conservation efforts.
• Forensic inspections by Policía Científica and international advisers are ongoing to confirm the fire’s origin, with an electrical short in stored equipment treated as the leading hypothesis.