Small number of churches taking up nearly half of monument subsidies: report

A large part of the Netherlands' subsidies for monuments is going to maintaining a small number of churches. Around 4 percent of the total number of national monuments are churches. Between 2009 and 2018 they received 44 percent of the subsidy money for the conservation of monuments, Trouw reports based on figures from the national cultural heritage agency RCE.Submitted by Janene Pieters on Sunday, 12 July 2020 - 09:00 https://nltimes.nl/2020/07/12/small-number-churches-taking-nearly-half-monument-subsidies-report