- Time of past OR future Camino
- Some in the past; more in the future!
An article in the New York Times today:
A Spanish Mystery: Is a ‘Masked Restorer’ to Blame for a Church’s Botched Repair?
It's about another poor restoration job, this time concerning visible modern cement showing in an arch of a Romanesque church in Castronuño, about 50km east of Zamora. This made news recently in Spain but apparently the cement has been there for over 20 years. Considering this and other poor, newsworthy restoration attempts that we have discussed here before, this is probably the key takeaway of the article:
A Spanish Mystery: Is a ‘Masked Restorer’ to Blame for a Church’s Botched Repair?
It's about another poor restoration job, this time concerning visible modern cement showing in an arch of a Romanesque church in Castronuño, about 50km east of Zamora. This made news recently in Spain but apparently the cement has been there for over 20 years. Considering this and other poor, newsworthy restoration attempts that we have discussed here before, this is probably the key takeaway of the article:
It could be said that the problem of Castronuño is the problem of Spain: This ancient land just has too many old things in need of fixing. There are Phoenician forts, Celtic castles, Moorish minarets, Roman ramparts, granite Greek graves — all left by bygone civilizations that came here conquering, all bent on leaving something for posterity.