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Newly completed wooden repairs within the Cathedral

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This Spanish article describes/ illustrates the recent completion of a type of "open heart surgery" on wooden work within the cathedral.

The restoration of the canopy above the statue of Santiago took only two weeks. The deterioration of the wood was due to water leaking , xylophages which are insects that eat wood, and, the quality of the wood used originally .
 
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