点评:When entered, firstly I was dazzled with the new looks, clean, pleasant, shining checkered marbles but wait a minute… I remember quite clear that on the floor there were XIX tombstones, where are they?! They are all gone! Although it was almost 3 decades, the last time I was there with a friend for a wedding and we joked about that one of them probably was one of her ancestors… on those days the looks of the cathedral interiors were crying for a restoration, I thought after all this time, they should had made a great job restoring it but it changed and looked new built rather than a restoration of a 300+ century old religious structure.
Still very beautiful from the outside, Colonial style with the blocks of different colors (they were brought from the remains of fired buildings of the first town founded by the Spaniards in the XVI century located at the other side of the city) and I have to say didn’t suffer the heat just because now all churches are air-conditioned; this comfort at a cost and the hurry to have it ready for the Pope’s visit in 2019.
Remodel, renovation but not restoration.
翻译:一进门,我首先被新面貌所震撼,干净、宜人、闪闪发光的方格大理石,但是等一下……我记得很清楚,地板上有 19 世纪的墓碑,它们在哪儿?!它们都不见了!虽然已经过去了将近 30 年,但上次我和一个朋友在那里参加婚礼时,我们开玩笑说其中一个可能是她的祖先之一……在那些日子里,大教堂内部的外观迫切需要修复,我想经过这么长时间,他们应该把它修复得很好,但它变了,看起来像是新建的,而不是对 300 多个世纪历史的宗教建筑的修复。
从外面看仍然非常漂亮,殖民地风格,不同颜色的石块(它们是从 16 世纪西班牙人在城市另一边建立的第一座城镇的烧毁建筑遗迹中运来的),我不得不说,我并不觉得热,因为现在所有的教堂都装有空调;这种舒适是有代价的,而且要匆忙为 2019 年教皇的访问做好准备。
改造、翻新,但不是修复。