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European Union waste, corruption and pollution

Baelo Claudia was a Roman town on the Atlantic coast of Andalucia in southern Spain.  The nearest modern town is Bolonia about 15Km north of Tarifa.  

It's wealth is evidenced by the magnificent amphitheatre. The money came from a salted  sauce (Garum) made from fish entrails.   

The settlement dates from about 2000 BC but folliwing earthquake damaged in the 2nd century AD it was abandoned in the 6th.

Here are the remains of the fish factory

Unfortunately politicians cannot leave a good thing like this alone.  The Ministry of Culture in the Junta of Andalusia decided it needed a visitor centre.  

Nothing might have come of it if the European Union had not got involved; Andalucian taxpayers would not spend their own money on this sort of nonsense.  But the EU is constantly looking for new ways to fritter away its billions and it regards Andalucia as one of the poorer regions as particularly deserving of its largesse.  The surrounding area is peppered with windfarms and new four lane motorways to nowhere.  

Egged on by  EU grants the local politicians commissioned a notorious Spanish Architect Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra to design what they grandly call a Center of Archaeological Interpretation.   This is what he came up with.

Now of course it is only half finshed.  It may look better when painted and decorated.  

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