A Spanish resident will receive more than € 1 million for accidentally finding a medieval church

A man from the Spanish city of Ubeda will receive more than €1 million for discovering the facade of a medieval temple inside the walls of a building. It's from sb.by.

As TASS notes with reference to the newspaper El País, the discovery occurred back in 2016, when the Spaniard Juan Francisco dismantled the walls of the building he bought in the center of Ubeda and found a stone facade of the church under them. Later it became known that the discovered facade is part of the church of the former hospital of St. George, whose construction dates back to 1347.

The width of the building was 15 m, and the height was 11 m. Experts studied the find and noted the high artistic value of the structure.

The authorities of the Andalusia region refused to pay a monetary reward for the find, indicating that the discovered object was already a protected monument of historical heritage. Spain's Supreme Court sided with the man and ordered him to pay more than €1 million in compensation. The Spaniard is in talks with local authorities to restore and preserve the structure he found. In Peru, on the Nazca plateau, archaeologists first found the burial of a baby with cyclopia

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