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It's a monument to the waste and corruption of Spain's now-busted building boom.
Hi, Anemone,In my opinion, the biggest problem is access to the site. I have wanted to go evey time I have been in Santiago, but the bus service to get there is almost non-existant, so I sadly stay local. Then therés the fact that this in no Fank Ghery or Pei work. Pushing boundaries is phenomenal, is you have talent. Then again, their is also the abandoned cemetary in Fisterra, created by a well renowned avant-garde architech, but the villagers want to be burried in the old cemetary.
Walk?! Surely not! But ank you for giving me directions to it, in all seiousness.Hi, Anemone,
It's actually a pretty nice walk and you can see the old Sar River bridge and the romanesque church on the way. You'll be walking on the road that the Vdlp enters Santiago on. Go down from Praza da Galiza, get on the Rua do Sar, and cross the bridge, then you'll a see a sign pointing up a hill on the left. No traffic on the road since no one goes up there. It's between 30-45 minutes.
This was in the new the other day! It has now been taken over by the Xunta again. Not sure what the future holds, but hope some money will be invested there.I'm interested to know what is happening with the Monte de Gozo site. It looked abandoned when we walked past in June. Is the huge albergue still functioning?
I'm interested to know what is happening with the Monte de Gozo site. It looked abandoned when we walked past in June. Is the huge albergue still functioning?
The other monument to the busted building boom is Cirueña, the practically ghost town of vacant homes and condos between Azofra and Santo Domingo de la Calzada.Would you take a friendly amendment to that sentence? How about "It's an architecturally interesting monument to the waste and corruption of Spain's now busted building boom."
Is this along the same lines as the defunct airport that was built and never used and just sold for less that pennies on the Dollar.As far as I know there is no new money being invested there (wise I think). So no more new construction for now. I just hope that there is a budget for maintenance, since there was a piece in the paper the other day about some of the stone tiles needed to be changed out, and it seems they were expensive
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