the pilgrimage of Chamorro It is a whole Ferrol tradition. And it is not for less since it is one of the oldest carvings in Galicia: a Romanesque piece from the 12th century whose original appearance has changed a lot.
“What has been tried is to turn it into a kind of baroque piece,” denounces Ana Paula Castro, art expert and honorary member of Apatrigal. To this size they have added synthetic hair, a silver face and a crown that the original did not have.
Little remains from then. But it is that the owners intended this week to start a new restoration: “We try to stop this type of action, which we know is done with the best intentions”Castro maintains. And they have succeeded: they want to prevent, they say, that their Virgin of Chamorro becomes something similar to Borja’s famous Ecce Homo.
“The problem is that you don’t have to restore it, you have to remove everything you didn’t have before“, insists Castro. The goal now is to recover the originality of the piece as much as possible.
Source: Lasexta
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