The copy of the Christ of the Fortaleza de Ponferrada is a decade old

The Christ of the Fortress, also called of the Wonders, has become in its own right one of the emblems of the Holy Week of Ponferrada. The original, from the 13th-early 14th century, is preserved in the Basilica of the Encina and unlike so many crucified, represents Jesus crowned. It is 169 centimeters high by 111 inches wide. But it is not the one that comes out in the Viacrucis of the Holy Monday in the Castle, one of the acts that is taking t…