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"The double recognition as a World Heritage Site by Unesco, both individually (in 2000) and as an outstanding monument of the Ways of St. James (in 2015), was the great confirmation of the exceptionality and the enormous historical and heritage value of the Wall of Lugo. Considered as the best preserved Roman construction of this nature in the Iberian Peninsula, this impressive defensive structure of more than two kilometers of perimeter is currently a great source of pride for the inhabitants of Lugo and for Galicians in general, who have seen how, despite the more than 17 centuries that have passed since its construction, it has managed to survive to the present day.
Although that road was not easy, as evidenced by the modifications that are visible in several points of its walls. In fact, the very existence of the wall was endangered at various points in its history. Its possible demolition to facilitate the growth of the city, as happened in other localities, was the subject of an intense debate during the 19th century, which was happily resolved in favor of conservation.
The scars of the struggle between those who did not see it possible to reconcile progress and heritage conservation and those who defended the importance of respecting history and monuments remain visible. Among these scars, the Bishop Odoario's door occupies a prominent place. Its opening in the 1920s was, precisely, the one that marked the turning point for the protection of the Wall and its subsequent enhancement.
Ángel López Pérez, mayor of the city in four different periods between 1905 and 1931, executed the project to open this access with the aim of facilitating transit to the new hospital of Santa María. It followed in the footsteps of similar initiatives undertaken in previous decades to also provide access to other newly created facilities: the train station, through the Puerta de la Estación (opened in 1875, but rebuilt in 1921); the prison, through the Puerta del Campo Castelo or Obispo Izquierdo (opened in 1887), and the seminary, through the Puerta del Obispo Aguirre (1894).
At the beginning of 1921, coinciding with the laying of the first stone of the hospital center of Santa María, which today houses part of the offices of the Provincial Council of Lugo, Ángel López ordered the dynamiting of the nearest section of the wall to build the new passageway. But, the action was met with rejection from the neighbors and with a complaint that ended up in court, since the proper legal channels had not been followed to act in this way on the wall. That judicial process was not enough to repair the damage and although the project was prolonged for several years, finally, in 1928 the last of the open accesses to the millenary enclosure was inaugurated: the Bishop Odoario Gate.
But the opposition aroused by this new action and the commotion it caused hastened the process for the Spanish government to approve the declaration of the Lugo Wall as a national monument, a process that had begun several years earlier, but which had not advanced at the pace desired by those in favor of protecting the monument. The official agreement was finally adopted on April 16, 1921. Since then, except for some occasional work on the existing gates, the structure of the Wall has remained intact and projects have even been undertaken to eliminate part of the constructions that had grown up around it over the centuries. Nowadays, the Wall is not only a symbol of Lugo, but it has become a meeting and leisure point for the neighbors who walk on its parapet and for the tourists who come to the city attracted by its monumentality."
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