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New albergue delayed in Roxoi

sillydoll

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If specific accommodation for the influcx of pilgrims in 2010 is not addressed, we will be overwhelmed by demand during the next Xacobeo. However, the great challenge of the Archbishopric of Santiago is to avoid this potential collapse and the building next to the Minor Seminary of Belvís of a shelter for 350 to 500 users has all traces of capsizing into a sea of red tape. In fact, the project has already openly admitted that the opening of the facility will be delayed at best possible scenarios, until June 2010. And given the delay to the municipal government, who accuse them of negligence.
The institution that directs Monsignor Julián Barrio promoted through the establishment of the Foundation Ad Sanctus Iacobum peregrinatio Universal and the Arch of St. James, whose president, Agustín Dosil was signed in May 2007 with Xosé A. Sanchez Bugallo (PSOE) an agreement in order to facilitate the early implementation of the building, which requires 12 to 16 months of work. "By then, on the eve of local elections, the mayor promised me that in the spring of 2008 we would start work and be ready in time for January 2010, but today we do not yet have it, although we have provided all the technical documentation that the City has been required during this time, "reported yesterday Dosil.
"We are, very disturbed by the deep malaise and frustration in the Jacobean world at large. [...] Indifference, neglect ... The municipality does not match the circumstances we require. "We have land, we have received financial contributions from all parts of Europe and America, the experts praised the architectural quality of the proposed solution, we are the only major city on the urban road without a pilgrim shelter, there is an urgent need or one ... and no, we are turning from 1999 to the same thing, over the years as if they were weeks. If we were in A Coruna and Vigo, this project is mimarían. Instead here ...».

http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/santiago/2 ... 448583.htm
 
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