The former monastery of Santa Clara de Belorado will open a restaurant in Arriondas (Asturias), in which they will cook for their clients but will also prepare their famous chocolates, a temporary solution to their economic problems while the demand for eviction presented by the archbishopric from Burgos.
The excrete have rented the Ribera del Chicu restaurant hotel, located in Arriondas, for 1,600 euros per month, which will become the first closing restaurant, explained its press chief, Francisco Canals, who has indicated that the hotel part will dedicate it to Residence and will only open the restaurant, which will attend personnel hired for the service.
Speaking to EFE, Canals has indicated that there will be three former religious of Belorado who will leave for Asturias, where they will cook to maintain the service and also prepare their typical sweets, given the impossibility of maintaining the activity of the Obrador in Belorado, due to economic problems and bureaucratic obstacles.
The rest of the exmonjas will stay in the convent, because “they have not renounced Belorado but seek to strengthen their community,” said Canals, with an autonomous economic activity that helps them pay their bills, in an environment in which “” The regulatory framework allows them to elaborate their famous chocolates, ”he said in a press release.
Bureaucratic obstacles
The Press Chief of the Exmonjas of Belorado has indicated that, although they have not been forbidden to continue with the activity of the workshop in the monastery, having the accounts intervened by the archbishop as a pontifical commissioner, not being able to invoice, the “boycott” In raw materials and administrative silence in the renewal of the health license makes it almost impossible.
For this reason they have chosen to look for a more favorable place and have rented this restaurant hotel, which has all the permits, and in which the three ex -religious will work in the kitchen, while residing in the hotel area, and will keep the closure with A template that will be in charge of attending to customers.
Canals has indicated that the restaurant is completely mounted, so it can be opened at any time. They have no defined date but it will be in the coming weeks.
Dog training project
The initiative is completed with the purchase of a land of 7,000 square meters, close to the restaurant, which will allocate to the breeding and training of dogs, to develop projects for example of attention to battered women or formation of guide dogs.
The press chief recalled that the Belorado City Council has not granted them the zoo core license, so they cannot develop this type of activity in the monastery, so they have acquired that land in Asturias that already has the license and the relevant permits.
Francisco Canals has insisted that the project in Asturias is temporary, a solution to its economic problems to continue with its business activity in a legally while the demand for eviction filed by the archbishopric is resolved, since the judicial process is expected to be extended In time.
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