Demetrio de los Ríos y las primeras propuestas para la restauración de la catedral de Burgos (1884-1887): Demetrio de los Ríos and the First Proposals for the Restoration of the Burgos Cathedral (1884-1887)

In 1884, the architect Demetrio de los Ríos y Serrano (1827–1892), who was the director of the restoration works of the León Cathedral, was commissioned to study the condition of the spires of the Burgos Cathedral and propose the necessary works to ensure their preservation. To this end, he developed an ambitious project that, for the first time, proposed restoring the building from a Viollet-le-Duc perspective, eliminating all the elements that had been added to the structure over the centuries and thus recovering its supposed original appearance. Although the project was not carried out, it led to the building being declared a National Monument in 1885, and some of the aspects outlined by Demetrio de los Ríos would later be incorporated into the works undertaken by Ricardo Velázquez Bosco and Vicente Lampérez y Romea.