Older British Women In Girdles

Santa María de Biota ¿canto del cisne?

The elderly devotees of Biota, going to temple in search of spiritual comfort, put their lives at the disposal of the Holy Providence. At any time, a piece of rock, detached from the deteriorating figures, can be sent to the hospital, or heaven ...
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l E church of Santa Maria in Biota (Zaragoza), is a Romanesque building that seems to sing their "swan song" by the evocative musings certain "conventicles" of medieval enthusiasts, encouraged by some "holy men" who seem to laugh thanks, while patting them back, some "competent" authorities, civil and religious. Authorities, however, finished the formal, once published their pictures in the local press, most often give the impression of having a deaf ear, as loud, of the issues that are supposed to be their concern and responsibility.

[This is, above all, worth mere presumption. For what follows, it is not presumed but pure and simple certainty].
. Biota Santa Maria, where a picture is worth a thousand words: Left . 1-XI-2007, and right-hand. 27-III-2010.
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S BOUT the beautiful south doorway there are eight great figures of the medieval bestiary, in separate brackets or "dogs" ... Well, to be precise, we have to conjugate the verb in the past tense "was." All are, to varying degrees, in the process of disintegration. As we can see, looking at the double photo above, this is not scaremongering sensationalist, but a sad reality. Left
shown in Figure 1 November 2007, right, the same, "but" not identical "beast," the March 27, 2010. In just two years and three months, the symbolic monster has lost face, from the eyebrows to the neck. How long will drop what little is left of him?
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Ram "gritty."
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L as other consoles, are the same way, each in its own pace. The stone cracks, breaks up and fragments of sandstone, of varying sizes, fall at random, unexpected, blind as projectiles, with clear risk for any who approaches the temple.
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snapdragon "coli-headed."
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L pieces of stone you are off without warning and do not distinguish among the faithful devotees, tourists, agnostics, atheists or curious. Caen, insensitive to what is not the law of gravity that drives them. Blind, like the beasts from which, to a vacuum that, in many cases, is crossed by the heads of unsuspecting visitors.
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Lion rampant ... "
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L as "competent" authorities are playing a macabre game of Russian roulette "with the lives of many people go to this temple, whether religious spirit as in tourism. Know have been molested, even, in order to make a study of this dangerous problem. And time is short only, but runs against both the stone figures, as human beings.
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A whom it may concern: put quick remedy to this nonsense, before also mourn the loss of historical and artistic, we regret any loss of human life. Although, given the low esteem that often demonstrated by the divine and human, we fear it is appropriate for someone to die so that at least the fear, I urge you to act. However, while not settle this dangerous question, instead of sending him to the pillory, it will suffice to see it put in the stocks, but chained to the front page of Biota, just under the brackets fall to pieces ... And do not say out of spite, but because they taste firsthand the unpredictable consequences of administrative negligence.
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Health and fraternity.