article_snippet.sent: We're talking of one of the biggest pilgrimage sites in the world -- not to mention one of the biggest pilgrimage sites in the world -- artistic value.
article_snippet.sent: Take the British Museum's successful exhibition on Pompeii in 2013: we have the real site in we backyard but the British Museum made the best of the British Museum worldwide while the real Pompeii was -- and still is -- making global headlines just because of global headlines frequent collapses.
article_snippet.sent: It's also about not having a sense of artistic and cultural attachment, the care to cherish a country's valuable monuments.
article_snippet.sent: Heritage authorities are in love with the Romantic ideal "of decadent ruins": better leave the monument or site as it is, even allow it to rot, rather than recover it and "destroy it original beauty.
article_snippet.sent: Each time new subway works bring to light an unknown Roman theatre or necropoli, it all freezes - the public works and the artistic upkeep.
article_snippet.sent: Preservation is equal to negligence and oblivion.
article_snippet.sent: Monuments and works of art are not dead, but living things that deserve to be sexed-up once in a while.
article_snippet.sent: Yet is it better to have a public ruin or a private, thriving multimedia museum?
article_snippet.sent: Curators fear the artworks could get damaged if moved.