BlogHide Resteemsjuancar347 (72)in photography • 14 hours ago[ENG-SPN] Details of Romanesque Spain / Detalles de la España RománicaSince ancestral times and based on the great devotion to the figure of the Virgin Mary, Spain has always been considered an eminently Marian country and especially blessed by her, although her cult…juancar347 (72)in photography • 2 days ago[ENG-SPN] Song of sirens / Canto de sirenasThere are cities that go unnoticed and others, on the contrary, leave a deep mark on the soul, difficult to forget. As far as I am particularly concerned, Castro Urdiales, that precious jewel of the…juancar347 (72)in photography • 2 days ago[ENG-SPN] Segovia and Snow White's Castle / Segovia y el castillo de BlancanievesNot far from a small depression where the modern archaeologist shudders with pleasure, extracting from that metaphorical usurer, who, for history, has always been the earth, the residual traces of…juancar347 (72)in photography • 3 days ago[ENG-SPN] A castle in Alcarria / Un castillo de la AlcarriaPerhaps Camilo José Cela's words weren't so prophetic after all. Well into the 1960s, combining his early backpacking career with the adventure of travel and the life experience of a future writer…juancar347 (72)in photography • 4 days ago[ENG-SPN] Madrid, Haunted City / Madrid, ciudad embrujadaPerhaps there are some cities, like the intriguing "Bermuda Triangles," located around the planet under various names, that somehow determine the supernatural character with which popular folklore…juancar347 (72)in photography • 5 days ago[ENG-SPN] To great men, great dreams / A grandes hombres, grandes sueñosMany years before Martin Luther King was born, there were also other visionaries who, possibly through their immersion in something as fascinating as dreams and the complex, unknown, and archetypal…juancar347 (72)in photography • 6 days ago[ENG-SPN] Fields of Castile / Campos de CastillaThe surrounding fields have already received the first attention from the farmer's barber's knife, and in the distance, on that same horizon line where heaven and earth seem to merge in a fraternal…juancar347 (72)in photography • 8 days ago[ENG-SPN] Something more than stones / Algo más que piedrasIn the shadow of this porticoed gallery, for centuries incessantly beaten by the impetuous winds, which, like metaphorical horsemen of the Apocalypse descend from the snowy peaks of the Sierra de…juancar347 (72)in photography • 9 days ago[ENG-SPN] Norse Mythologies on the Saint James Way / Mitologías nórdicas en el Camino de SantiagoGiven that scientific advances today are outrageous, as Don Hilarión, a subtle character in that emblematic work of Madrid, which is, despite fashion and time, The Verbena of the Dove, said with…juancar347 (72)in photography • 9 days ago[ENG-SPN] Between cave houses and windmills / Entre casas-cueva y molinosWe will never be absolutely certain that it was really here, in this beautiful village in La Mancha, the birthplace, moreover, of one of our most international artists—so international, in fact…juancar347 (72)in photography • 10 days ago[ENG-SPN] Actors, Pilgrims, and the Great Theater of Nature / Actores, peregrinos y el gran teatro de la naturalezaUnlike the actor, who lives many lives, reincarnations in situ, playing a multitude of personalities of the most varied nature and condition, the pilgrim, however, is only a chrysalis destined to…juancar347 (72)in photography • 11 days ago[ENG-SPN] The Río Lobos Canyon, a gateway to other worlds / El Cañón del Río Lobos, una puerta a otros mundosFor those of us who, like the enigmatic Italian poet Dante Alighieri, also find ourselves a step beyond the center of our lives and are fortunate enough to carry behind us the experience of…juancar347 (72)in photography • 12 days ago[ENG-SPN] Where legends are born / Donde nacen las leyendasUnfrequented places, except for the mist that seems to court, with eternal perseverance, that soft mattress of fresh grass where Pasiego cattle graze, rest, and possibly also dream, enhancing the…juancar347 (72)in photography • 13 days ago[ENG-SPN] A Disaster in Trasmiera / Un desastre en la TrasmieraSeeing the inconsequential renovations that, over different periods, altered the minute sacred character of this beautiful 12th-century temple, the traveler, once his sensitivity has been wounded…juancar347 (72)in photography • 15 days ago[ENG-SPN] Of ports and seas / De puertos y maresNow, the large transoceanic ships pass by and on occasions, the helmsmen activate the large horns, whose shrill sound the wind, that metaphorical postman who always arrives everywhere, brings it…juancar347 (72)in photography • 16 days ago[ENG-SPN] Architecture of Madrid: Avenida de la Ciudad de Barcelona / Arquitecturas de Madrid: la Avenida de la Ciudad de BarcelonaArchitecture can also be considered, in a metaphorical and comparative sense, as a prodigious time machine that allows us to wander through the intense chapters of history, based on its styles…juancar347 (72)in photography • 16 days ago[ENG-SPN] Following in the footsteps of Romanesque art through the lands of Almazán / Tras las huellas del Románico por tierras de AlmazánLeaving behind us is the old fortified city of Almazán, where, among other great historical milestones, the French mercenary Bertrand Du Guesclin was both judge and jury in settling the differences…juancar347 (72)in photography • 17 days ago[ENG-SPN] Satellites of Madrid: Navalcarnero / Satélites de Madrid: NavalcarneroIf there's anything truly intense about the Community of Madrid, it's those wonderful towns that surround it like satellites and whose beauty, picturesqueness, appeal, and allure illuminate it, as a…juancar347 (72)in photography • 18 days ago[ENG-SPN] Special Places on the Stars Way: Sarria / Lugares especiales del Camino de las Estrellas: SarriaLess than twenty kilometers separate two of the most emblematic towns on Stars Way or Saint James Way as they pass through the Community of Lugo, once the additional difficulties of one of the most…juancar347 (72)in photography • 19 days ago[ENG-SPN] Ghostly Surrealism at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum / Surrealismo fantasmal en el Museo Lázaro GaldianoLife, if we stop to think about it for a moment, can be reduced, at least in a simplistic way, to an unusual succession of details, many of which, of course, belong to that infinite universe that…
