Juan Carlos Menendez (@juancar347) - PALnet

Juan Carlos Menendez

juancar347-romanica.blogspot.com

Madrid - Spain

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about 15 hours ago

Caltójar and the Land of Berlanga: Romanesque, Legend, and Border Roads Another of the great landmarks of Romanesque architecture in those legendary and seemingly desolate plains of the land of Berlanga, located practically

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8.793 PAL

1 day ago

[ENG-SPN] Ucero: Stone Watchtowers and Templar Secrets / Ucero: vigías de piedra y secretos templarios Dominating the melancholic image of the village of Ucero, which every summer, well into August, miraculously awakens from its seclusion to join in the jubilat

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8.765 PAL

3 days ago

[ENG-SPN] When Stone Became Text: Romanesque as the Language of Power / Cuando la Piedra Fue Texto: El Románico como Lenguaje del Poder In the area surrounding the enigmatic ancient troglodyte city of Tiermes or Termancia, there are villages, such as Montejo, that still preserve some of thei

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8.758 PAL

4 days ago

[ENG-SPN] Numancia: When Freedom Is Worth More Than Life / Numancia: cuando la libertad vale más que la vida I don't mind admitting it, but I, like the endearing character created by the writer from Soria, Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, known as the hermit of San Saturio, a

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0.006 PAL

4 days ago

[ENG-SPN] Between Hobbits and Vines: The Hidden Charm of Berlanga / Entre Hobbits y Cepas: El Encanto Oculto de Berlanga They say that the first man to plant a grapevine and discover the properties of its fruit, properly macerated, was the patriarch Noah, becoming, moreover, the

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8.759 PAL

5 days ago

[ENG-SPN] From Celtiberians to Cathedrals: The History Whispered by the Ucero River / De Celtíberos a Catedrales: La Historia que Susurra el Ucero Today, almost no one visits them, so few know that on this other side of the Ucero River, the ancient ruins of the Celtiberian-Roman city of Uxama were, in fa

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8.756 PAL

7 days ago

[ENG-SPN] Soria: Where the Cold Guards Memory / Soria: Donde el frío custodia la memoria Soria is undoubtedly one of the coldest, yet most interesting, regions in the multicultural universe of Spain, a land so rich in nuances, history, and therefo

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8.586 PAL

8 days ago

Christmas in Habsburg Madrid The countdown has begun, and there are only a few days left to celebrate the major events of 2025, a year that has brought us many surprises.

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8.463 PAL

8 days ago

[ENG-SPN] Castile, Mystery, and Exile: The Hidden Journey of El Cid / Castilla, Misterio y Destierro: El Viaje Oculto del Cid The world of legend also boasts that Hispanic hybrid, strong as Hercules, furious as Achilles, and cunning as Ulysses: that entirely historical figure who, bo

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0.021 PAL

9 days ago

[ENG-SPN] The Art That Witnessed El Cid's Passage: Romanesque on the Edge of Time / El Arte que Vio Pasar al Cid: Románico en la Frontera del Tiempo We return to the dreamy and paradigmatic fields of Soria, and leaving behind the deserved capital of Romanesque art, San Esteban de Gormaz—a medieval city th

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7.639 PAL