The Virgen de los Desamparados stays within the Valencia City Council after the controversy over its withdrawal

The picture of the Virgen de los Desamparados will stay within the Valencia City Hall and won’t be transferred to the City Museum, as initially deliberate. The municipal authorities has promised to “examine the very best relocation in an area that may be visited by the city corridor” for the dimensions.

The carving of the patron saint of Valencians will stay within the City Hall, though in a brand new location as a result of the one it occupied till now turns into a brand new entrance to the Historical Museum.

The authorities’s proposal got here after criticism from the opposition (PP, Cs and Vox,) to the change of location of the Virgin and the concept of ​​leaving it out of the consistory, during which the unique was protected in the course of the Civil War on the request of a Republican mayor, José Cano, after the assault on the Basilica.

Support of Cs and abstention of PP and VOX

To commemorate these occasions, the officers of the consistory promoted the development of a reproduction that has remained within the City Hall for 80 years.

The plenary session of the Valencia City Council has ratified this Thursday, December 22, that it return to the consistory and in “the very best location”. The native company has adopted this measure with the sure of the federal government group, made up of Compromís and PSPV, and the assist of Cs. The PP and Vox have abstained as a result of they think about that the settlement just isn’t “enough”. The ‘common’ have claimed that the Virgen de los Desamparados return to the city corridor whereas the Historical Museum is being reformed and that it’s not “in a warehouse, surrounded by plastic and never in superb situation.”