I guess we will not be the only guild to have launched this reproach us as we put one foot in the Plaza del Obradoiro. And they tell us in an accusatory tone, as if it was our responsibility to the cleaning and restoration of monuments. So many times I hear that and think that maybe they are right, we are very left… And it is certainly in their towns and cities is not the council, or council or ruling government maintainer of these places, that nothing, are the neighbors, especially the guides!! We do not make it clear how, imagine that when each finishes clean house, girt comes to street cloths, take, mops and why not?, the benefit vaporeta, cleaning the van and monuments in their path until they as a jasper. An enviable civility…
But then, as we do not do that, it turns out that the Cathedral (and many other things) have filled us with plants, flowers and lichens. And is that nature does not respect anything, having so many green areas bounded for development, insists on climbing on the rocks.
The fact is that as we have not been cleaned as we should, something we have to respond to these criticisms, excuses bad payer may say: if the Cathedral is centuries old and looks old because it is, read the book of Torrente Ballester “Compostela and his angel” and then we will see with different eyes, García Márquez said that if something so beautiful “Flowers in stone Compostela ..”, that is not car fumes is Mother Nature, the color is beautiful at sunset… We will, you try by all means to convince them that it is pretty well, usually failed attempts.
It turns out that the National Park of the Atlantic Islands has had the happy idea of organizing a course in Ribeira and lichens on the island of Sálvora. It was a luxury, therefore the subject, as to be able to access Sálvora in a group so small. The boat ride to the island,with Nautical Tourism Sea Aguiño funny, spectacular and highly recommended. But also we have given ammunition. It must be said, we always were defenders lichens that adorned our stones, both on the beach like a bell, but now we can even name them (eye, only a few). We can also say that because it just does not deteriorate embedded in the stone, that often “cleaning” is more aggressive than what you try to remove, It is more, not only damage but also protect and serve as bioindicators of pollution. Some data already knew, many other non-, but from what we have been taught Mary, and García Márquez, I think our power of persuasion has increased considerably.
If among these lichens have to choose one, must be the Xanthoria parietina, of the most abundant and showy. His yellow, orange or red lights almost to a poor uralita. Not to mention if you decide to grow one of the world's most famous facades, so much has been spent to brown altarpieces, and it appears that the “gold leaf” most beautiful is free.
And if we are not yet convinced, Sheldon Cooper, de la serie The Big Bang Theory, at the beginning of this chapter also it gives indications of the advantages to merge with a lichen 🙂
(to see it click on VIEW NOW NO, slightly below, where it says select the video quality, three boxes, CLICK on any, served in the first and, and wait for it to load without touching anything else. There is a counter in blue indicating the seconds it takes. If you are hooked on the series are all chapters)
http://www.mirathebigbangtheory.com/the-big-bang-theory-online-S5E22-The-Stag-Convergence.html