01-11-2024 18:55 via theguardian.com

€2 to illuminate a Caravaggio masterpiece is a small price to pay | Letter

The row over an entrance fee to Notre Dame reminds Mike Pender of a visit to SyracuseThe controversy over whether Notre Dame should charge visitors an entrance fee (Row erupts over plan to charge €5 to enter fire-hit Notre Dame, 26 October) brought to mind a trip to Italy earlier this year. Caravaggio’s painting The Burial of Saint Lucy has been recently relocated to the church for which it was originally intended: the Basilica di Santa Lucia al Sepolcro in Syracuse, Sicily. It is now
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