The mural paintings of Sijena Monastery (Huesca), considered one of the jewels of the Spanish Romanesque, continue installed in the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC). This is waiting for the Supreme Court to resolve, four years later, the appeal with which Try to prevent them from returning to their place of originthe chapter room of the Cenobio Oscense.
It is a delay that accumulates a much greater, since the Court of First Instance No. 2 of Huesca recognized in a judgment issued in November 2017 that The paintings belong to Aragon and that they should return to Sijena. A decision that the magistrate who resolved then ruled out executing before the resources raised from Catalonia to warn of the fragility of the tables.
The judge, aware that the sentence could not be confirmed in higher instances despite the solid arguments defended from Aragon and that they could have to return to Catalonia again, decided to wait for a firm resolutionwhich had its next chapter at the Huesca audience. The trial, which was scheduled for November 21 and 22, was postponed for February 20 and 21.
Despite the expectations of the plaintiffs of a rapid resolution, the Oscense court took until October 2020 its confirmation judgment of the resolution in favor of Aragon, which was appealed in November of that same year by the MNAC before the First Chamber ( Civil) of the Supreme, where It still remainswithout date for your debate and subsequent resolution.
Supreme sources have assured that the issue of Sijena’s paintings, with registration number 6,506/2020, remains piled up with other resources waiting to come to light. A delay, on the other hand, that Fold the average resolution time of the civil causes in the Supreme, encrypted in 25 months, according to the statistics themselves provided by the High Court on its website.
Although these sources have admitted that the time elapsed is much higher than the average have argued that the First Chamber da preference for family causes or those of the right to honorand that, in addition, it only has six of the ten magistrates who must form it.
Aragon waiting
Waiting for the supreme of the first steps to resolve the resource, the Aragonese government, since the previous legislature, began to act in the Sijena monastery for Adapt the museum levels. The goods that have returned years ago from the Lleida Museum and will place the wall paintings in their original space.
In March 2021, once the appeal was resolved at the Huesca hearing, the then General Director of Heritage of the Aragonese Government, Marisancho Menjón, foresaw that the Supreme’s ruling was not going to be delayed and that the transfer of the paintings It was going to be carried out at the end of 2022 or early the following year.
It is a delay that, in the opinion of the lawyer of the City of Villanueva de Sijena, Jorge Español, constitutes an anomaly that must be resolvedgiven the time elapsed since the paintings were torn from their wall by art historian José Gudiol by order of the Generalitat, at the beginning of the civil war. “Since in 1936 José Gudiol iludiol started the frescoes of the Sijena Chapter Room Waiting for your return To this Aragonese cenobium, “said this lawyer.
In his opinion, the fact that the Supreme Court takes four years without issuing a sentence “would seem a small anecdote in the case of so many years, but now urgently urges since the most important wall paintings of the Spanish Romanesque return to the monastery of Sijenabecause all things cry for returning as soon as possible with their owner, and much more when in this case its value exceeds 500 million euros. “
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