'Ecce Homo' Meme Has Attracted Over 150,000 Tourists
The botched restoration of 'Ecce Homo' has attracted over 150,000 tourists to a small Spanish town, according The New York Times.
Remember the best meme of 2012? Turns out that the botched restoration of “Ecce Homo” is actually making the small Spanish town, Borja, tourism cash. A report in the New York Times says that:
Since the makeover, the image has attracted more than 150,000 tourists from around the world — Japan, Brazil, the United States — to the gothic 16th century Sanctuary of Our Lady of Mercy on a mountain overlooking Borja. Visitors pay one euro, or about $1.25,
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