Depopulation and lack of joint protection threaten the future of hundreds of Romanesque buildings in rural Spain. Experts in history and architecture warn of the need for a generic declaration and support the cultural use of temples and monitoring to prevent churches from ruining them.

Only in the famous Red List prepared by the Hispania Nostra association there are currently 32 churches and hermitages under threat of disappearing. Identifying which of them lack protection or are at risk is “an administrative task that should be done.”