The number of visits received “in just over a month” at the headquarters of the exhibition in Villafranca del Bierzo is estimated at 40,000
He Minister of Culture and Tourism, Gonzalo Santonjaannounced yesterday that it intends to inform the Ages of Man Foundation to consider changing the start dates of its exhibitions. “The summer months are not good.
“Tourism is going to other regions and not so much to the Plateau and I think that from now on The Ages of Man should take place from September until after Christmas,” he answered to the media when asked about the number of visits he has received so far. So far, the date is the headquarters of the exhibition in Villafranca del Bierzo – which shares the initiative with Santiago de Compostela because it is the first time that the project is presented with a double stage in two different autonomous communities.
The highest regional representative for cultural issues stressed that for him these new dates that he proposes would be “ideal”, while specifying that it is now time to talk about it with the Foundation, with which he does not believe there is a “problem” regarding this new approach. Gonzalo Santonja nevertheless appeared “satisfied” because “40,000 visits in just over a month is very good”.
He also highlighted the “claim” that the Galician headquarters of the “macro project” exhibition focuses on the heritage of Castilla y León, recalling that one of its rooms is the crypt of the Cathedral of Santiago, an essential destination for tourists and pilgrims who come to the neighboring community, and “we notice this projection a lot.”
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