On day one of the schedule for the return of the paintings of the Chapter Room to the Monastery of Sijena has started with protests. The Catalan National Assembly (ANC) has gathered several tens of people at the door of the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC), whose room 17 have accessed this Monday the government technicians of the government of Aragon To start the analysis of the frescoes, within the process that, it is expected, ends within seven months with the transfer to the Cenobio Oscense.
The “sitting”, with a strong police presence, has not prevented the arrival of the DGA staff at 10.50, according to executive sources. More specifically, the first exploration will consist of a “photogrammetric survey” that will start with the fragments of the profane paintings, located in one of the two reserved spaces. An action authorized by Justice, the result of compliance with the final execution of the Supreme Court’s judgment, and of which the Generalitat had last Friday through the Minister Tomasa Hernández.
These first tasks are framed in the so -called “prior documentation and trials” phase of the schedule. One of the main newly started the process is to have access to the documentation to the frescoes on their maintenance conditions, which did not happen after the first entry of the technicians with the constitution of the working group next to the Board of Trustees of the Museum, which lasted two days.
With the data obtained, those responsible for the transfer may finish adapting the conditions of the Chapter Room, where the paintings came out in 1936, for a fire at the beginning of the civil war, and during the 60s of the last century. In any case, this point of the monastery has already suffered an important face washing, in the line of the rest of the set.
If you will be trereen, that you are treated a to a.
Seieme a les of the mnac.
No to L’Esoli de les Obres de Sixena! pic.twitter.com/rrtdrlnmpo
– Catalan National Assembly (@assemblea) July 28, 2025
Laura Borrás and Lluís Llach
Among the protesters against the MNAC, the presence of the former president of the Parliament and who was responsible for culture in the Government of Quim Torra, Laura Borrás (Junts). At the gates of the Barcelona Museum, the same slogans have been read with which Minister Ernest Urtasun in Mataró was received on Sunday: “Sijena, Universal Heritage” or “Neither transfer, nor plunder nor submission.”
Speaking to the media, the president of the ANC and well -known singer -songwriter, Lluis Llach, has reiterated that they are “willing to continue the fight to avoid the plundering of Sijena’s paintings”.
