Reuters reports:
Perhaps the most striking image of Spain's drought, so severe it has forced Barcelona to ship in water, has been that of the underwater church which emerged from a drying dam.
For most of the past four decades, all that has been visible of the village of Sant Roma has been the belltower of its stone church, peeping above the water beside forested hills from a valley flooded in the 1960s to provide water for the Catalonia region.
This year, receding waters have exposed the 11th-century church completely, attracting crowds of tourists who stand gazing around it on the dusty bed of the reservoir.
Like it. Like it very much. Might pop over for one of the services. Would they be praying for rain?
Some years ago, when the PP designed a strategy to deal with droughts all over Spain, the Government was criticized to the bone, since it was a "right wing" one...
ReplyDeleteZapatero realizes today that all he's done to solve that problem is NOTHING. Because we preferred to give gays the "right" to a "matrimony", because they were too busy legalizing millions of illegal inmigrants, and too busy to be the opposition-of-the-opposition, instead of actually ruling.
Like all socialists govt's in our young Democracy's History, all we'll be doing is patches. Patches to everything, instead of actually solving the problems.
How fascinating that it stood there under water, imagine visiting this church.
ReplyDeleteYes, Miguel - there seem to be some strange decisions over your way.
ReplyDeleteNunyaa - I'd love to.
Quite fascinating :-)
ReplyDeleteIt's certainly worth visiting but it says something about the problems Spain is (and will be facing in creasinly) over water supply
ReplyDeleteI would love to, too.
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