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The Portico of Glory is left on the road - so says el Pais
Pilgrims arriving in Santiago de Compostela encounter a wall of scaffolding where the should meet one of the most emblematic scupltures in the Cathedral, the Portico de la Gloria. The Galician regional government hoped that Maestro Mateo sculptures would be exposed by the Holy Year. But the deadlines are long forgotten. In fact, in the Holy Year, the restoration work was blocked.
Very few knew of the recent setbacks affecting the Portico until last Thursday when the president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijoo, announced after the weekly meeting of his Government that they had approved an agreement to "unlock the restoration."
The alleged problems were "technical differences" between the direction of the work, led by the Ministry of Culture Restorative Surgeon Concha, and specialists from the Directorate General of Heritage of the Ministry of Culture of the Xunta. What disparities are is not clarified by either party.
The agreement will be signed and "will at last enable the release of work," reports Isabel Lafont.
Read more here:
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/ ... icul_1/Tes
Pilgrims arriving in Santiago de Compostela encounter a wall of scaffolding where the should meet one of the most emblematic scupltures in the Cathedral, the Portico de la Gloria. The Galician regional government hoped that Maestro Mateo sculptures would be exposed by the Holy Year. But the deadlines are long forgotten. In fact, in the Holy Year, the restoration work was blocked.
Very few knew of the recent setbacks affecting the Portico until last Thursday when the president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijoo, announced after the weekly meeting of his Government that they had approved an agreement to "unlock the restoration."
The alleged problems were "technical differences" between the direction of the work, led by the Ministry of Culture Restorative Surgeon Concha, and specialists from the Directorate General of Heritage of the Ministry of Culture of the Xunta. What disparities are is not clarified by either party.
The agreement will be signed and "will at last enable the release of work," reports Isabel Lafont.
Read more here:
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/ ... icul_1/Tes