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National Monument Particular "

"The National Monument,
of my estate, it is especially when it rains it gets wet

like everyone else.
Crouch, and turn to duck,
that to enter you'll see
charge and not a photo will do ... "
(Project run nursery rhyme).
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The magnificent Romanesque church of San Pedro de Tejada, XIIth century, in Puente Arenas (Burgos), was declared a Historic Artistic Monument in February 1935 and National Monument in November year. Notwithstanding lovely building, it was a real estate and property from the confiscation, which were purchased from the State, Huidobro family in 1851. And so on ... private, surrounded by fences, walls and prohibitions.
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Although benefits of protection, assistance and grants appropriate State for such buildings, all of which leaves the pocket of the taxpayer, the owners, in exercising its right not to be deprived of scrub nose the private nature of the place. First, through a large gate that prevents even the approach to the temple, after the transfer that, in the hours authorized for the visit, still have to kowtow to the obscene sign of "particular property", spend another fence, and then go through box office. So, if not in business hours, the "ability" of the owners prevents even closer to the outside of the temple.
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And it is the biggest pain in the door once we have a paltry lineup preventing the taking of photographs. What's "miserable" is not metaphor, it is a reused paper on the back, where, with the awkwardness that the photo shows, cameras are prohibited inside the venue. Not out of malice or stupidity, it is business sense, because in the snack bar, charge admission also sell several books on the temple. Owners think, with monetary reason that if they stop shooting inside someone will bite and buy in her small bookstore.
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to whom it may concern: If a National Monument, protected by the laws of the state and subsidized by our taxes, how is it that allows you to their management of private and restrictive? Why are aware that a national cultural asset is treated as a business? How do admit that, year after year, growing obstacles to approach the temple gates, walls, doors? Put
quick remedy to this mess, combining the interests of owners with those of taxpayers, pagans and sufferers suffered the arrogance of the owners "of invention." Failure to do so, go to pillory and stocks, possibly to a pillory "of private property, where you need top pay to be shackled in stocks.
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Health and fraternity.