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Botched painting restoration makes Spanish church a tourist attraction
September 26, 2012
Earlier this year, Cecilia Giménez, 80, was asked to restore Elías García Martínez’s Ecce Homo in a northeastern Spanish parish.
Giménez’s botched attempt at restoration has made the church a tourist attraction, with 1,000 visiting on a recent weekend.
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