The economic crisis is being very hard and therefore the influx of tourists has plummeted Cantabria. But fortunately, once again our politicians have the solution to all our problems, and apparently it goes through the reopening of the Altamira Cave, closed in 2002 before suffering a severe threat paintings. Since its discovery in 1879 by Marcelino Sainz de Sautuola, the cavity has been exposed to a huge number of visits that produced microbial colonization which threatened its preservation. We therefore built a Neocave or replicas, following the example of the cavity Lascaux in the Dordogne France, which was announced accompanied by the usual media fanfare as the perfect solution that would combine the security of their conservation with the arrival of tourists Asgaya .
But now it seems that no, the thing has not worked, and once again comes to economic neoliberalism vampirizing our heritage, even killing the goose that lays golden eggs. And it's that need the money, you. Of course, all talk of reopening "controlled", but it is highly implausible that a small number of visits between ten to forty day trippers, is able to revive our battered tourism sector. Rather, one fears the worst.
Therefore, the regional government had expected "any loophole" of the CSIC report viavilidad on this proposal to stick with it. And, since "who seeks finds, as expected it did not disappoint. Although the report indicates that the best way to preserve the paintings is the closure to prevent any 'outside contact' then increase the microbial colonization, the reopening shall not be rejected completely even making it clear that "if you change strategy and deciding the opening, monitoring should be comprehensive to detect early the likely expansion of the organisms to areas inside the cave. "
Gone are the claims of our illustrious leader Revilluca key under which the Spaniard went through tourism golf course construction. Now, heeding the voice of his master, The Dean of the Press Cántabra has orchestrated a media campaign for the reopening, because they appear in this region there is a "popular clamor" to back it up. And I did not hear. For his part, Minister of Culture Francisco Javier López Marcano, stated that "we need the opening of the cave because it's flag, is ahead of our tourism and our presence in the world" as "one of the places Western art is born ", and finally added that the three best ambassadors of Cantabria in the world are "Altamira, Santander and Severiano Ballesteros."
Well we're screwed.
