Supreme court allows the redrawing of the
Camino de Santiago
SOURCE: RADIO JACA
The fourth section of the Contentious Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal brought by the City of Artieda, in calling the failure to amend the route of the
Camino de Santiago, during the construction of regrowth Yesa, to be declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In its judgment notes that the general interest prevails over the rich heritage of the
Camino de Santiago.
The city of Rio association Artieda and Aragon had filed an appeal, asking that the failure to amend the route of the
Camino de Santiago, which UNESCO declared a World Heritage Site, as the increase of Yesa flooded part of this path.
In its judgment, the Supreme Court recognizes the cultural and heritage, the route of the
Camino de Santiago who once declared UNESCO World Heritage Site, but nevertheless "a timely and little movement that does not distort the perception of its unique full historical and cultural significance, is covered by the need to attend to other more general interests of remarkable intensity "
Consequently, the Court finds that there will be relocated, monuments that are of cultural interest, as the shrine of St. James Ruesta, the hermitage of San Juan Bautista Ruesta or Ruesta chapel of St. James, and authorizes the redrawing of the Road Santiago.