This is not a catastrophe, but rather a disaster foretold.
According to a senatorial report on the state of religious heritage in France, the latter suffers from a lack of maintenance or too irregular maintenance.
However, who says lack of maintenance says, in the long term, holes in the roof, frames eaten by insects or decorations infiltrated with water.
Not to mention the rising bills, the big jobs always costing more than the small maintenance.
"Protected buildings are in better condition than those that are not",
qualify Pierre Ouzoulias (Hauts-de-Seine, CRCE) and Anne Ventalon (Ardèche, LR)
All are also more degraded in rural areas than in areas urban, and the inner parts are more neglected.”
According to the Observatory of Religious Heritage (OPR), there are 100,000 places of worship in France, in activity or not.
45,000 of them, mainly churches, are owned by municipalities, which can be very small.
"The risk of abandonment of a...
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