Juan Carlos Menendez (@juancar347) - PALnet

Juan Carlos Menendez

juancar347-romanica.blogspot.com

Madrid - Spain

Carpe Diem

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San Esteban de Gormaz: The Other Worlds of the Road Today, my travel proposal aims to test whether we are truly aware, when we passionately embrace the challenge of personal and cultural advancement t

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[ENG-SPN] San Baudelio: A Temple Between Two Worlds / San Baudelio: un templo entre dos mundos One of the greatest jewels of our incredible cultural heritage, and at the same time, a victim of one of the most scandalous acts of plunder in history, is lo

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14.187 PAL

2 days ago

[ENG-SPN] The Knight Who Defied Time / El caballero que desafió al tiempo If the memorable passage of El Cid Campeador through San Esteban de Gormaz, on his way into exile, left captivating traces of legendary feats, the miraculous

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3 days ago

[ENG-SPN] The Knight's Mirror / El Espejo del Caballero Often, paintings are veritable mirrors, which, as that eloquent Victorian mathematician Lewis Carroll suggested, allow you to access unsuspected universes—not

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13.366 PAL

4 days ago

[ENG-SPN] Where the Road Divides / Donde el Camino se Divide A well-known poet once said that our lives are like rivers flowing into the sea. And he wasn't wrong, because this beautiful metaphor perhaps encapsulates the

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5 days ago

[ENG-SPN] The Devil's Bridge / El puente del Diablo Just as at the Royal Palace of Madrid, where tradition holds that the architect Sabatini had to deal with a labor strike caused by the Devil, this solitary, t

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6 days ago

[ENG-SPN] The Virgin Who Came from the Sea / La Virgen que llegó del mar It is said that it was precisely at one of the most dangerous points of entry to the port of San Vicente where the small boat ran aground. Without oars or cre

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7 days ago

[ENG-SPN] The Secret of the Angels / El secreto de los Ángeles Some apocryphal secret statutes, supposedly attributed to a mysterious Templar master named Roncellín, stipulated that the brothers of the Order had to place

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8 days ago

[ENG-SPN] San Vicente: The Magic of Reality / San Vicente: la magia de lo real As the French writer Dominique Aubier said in her famous essay attempting to demonstrate the likelihood that Miguel de Cervantes made Don Quixote of La Mancha

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9 days ago

[ENG-SPN] Saint Bartholomew, Between the Way and Mystery / San Bartolomé, entre el Camino y el misterio Although the small Cantabrian town of Oreña is closely linked to the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela, known as the Northern Way, there are no recor

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