St. Petersburg - Barcelona . That was the flight that the Hermitage Museum intended to take, but the Catalan City Council through four reports of mobility, urban planning, culture and economic viability has denied that landing. Now the Russian art space has thought of a new destination and the plane has deviated from Madrid .

According to sources from the Culture Area of ​​the Madrid City Council, delegate Andrea Levy will "soon" begin a dialogue so that the capital has a museum headquarters as other European cities like Amsterdam already have. "Madrid is open to all artistic sensibilities and, for this reason, it is not going to be vetoed by anyone presenting their project in the city," said the same sources.

For this reason, the municipal corporation headed by the popular José Luis Martínez-Almeida will begin "in the coming weeks" to "assess the suitability of the project" and to study "the possibility that a new headquarters of the artistic space could be installed in Madrid" .

The main reason given by the Ada Colau Government team for not hosting the Hermitage headquarters in Barcelona is its location: the New Bocana del Puerto , an area that suffered damage from the temporary Gloria estimated at 12 million euros and is considered " a fragile space on the city's coastline because of its proximity to the sea, "according to the Catalan Consistory.

The Barcelona corporation also emphasizes that the priority should be to rehabilitate the existing heritage in the capital of Catalonia and expressed doubts regarding the economic viability of the project. The deputy mayor, Joan Subirats , said the 850,000 visitors planned by the promoters as "overly optimistic" for the first year.

From Madrid, on the other hand, the Consistory accuses its Catalan counterpart of rejecting the project for "sectarian reasons" and because "it does not fit its concept of city". "It was a good measure for the neighbors of a degraded area like La Barceloneta, " they point out from the team of Andrea Levy, a native of the Catalan capital.

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