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Juan Carlos Menendez

juancar347-romanica.blogspot.com

Madrid - Spain

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[ENG-SPN] Arlanza: Between Ruins, Cinema, and Desolation / Arlanza: entre ruinas, cine y desamparo If there is a monastery that has been looted to the point of exhaustion, it is none other than these cyclopean ruins, romantic beyond compare and sadly evocat

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[ENG-SPN] Escalante: The Hermitage of the Mist / Escalante: La Ermita de la Bruma Located just a few kilometers from Santoña, but sharing with it the marshes created by the Cantabrian Sea's waves when their force transforms them into a meta

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Santillana and the Threshold of Mystery Today, our journey into the darkness of History, the enigmas of Art, and that metaphorical island of Barataria, nestled between the two, which is Myste

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[ENG-SPN] Demons in the Heights / Demonios en las Alturas As mysterious as the very origins of the Gothic style, about which historians still haven't reached a consensus, these supernatural, nightmarish beings, like

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6 days ago

[ENG-SPN] Saint Cyprian: The Sorcerer of Forgotten Romanesque Art / San Cipriano: El Hechicero del Románico Olvidado Some sense, following the lines and mythological themes of its abundant corbels, the anonymous yet deeply involved hand in the medieval narrative that transfo

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7 days ago

[ENG-SPN] The Monastery That Changes as You Look at It / El Monasterio que Cambia al Mirarlo A short distance from Peñaranda de Duero, where the scrubland begins to give way to the solid growth of vineyards—vineyards that, according to tradition, were

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[ENG-SPN] Peñaranda de Duero, Castile in its purest form / Peñaranda de Duero, Castilla en estado puro Not only does Juan Eslava Galán recommend it as one of those thousand places to see in Spain at least once in a lifetime, but he goes even further, describing

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9 days ago

[ENG-SPN] Hieronymus Bosch: The Enigma That Counts Through Time / El Bosco: El Enigma que Cotiza en el Tiempo It is likely that all art historians would agree that, when dealing with such an enigmatic figure, Hieronymus Bosch, the 15th-century Flemish painter better k

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11 days ago

[ENG-SPN] Burgos, a Labyrinth of Centuries / Burgos, un laberinto de siglos Once you pass through the mysterious lanterns of the medieval Puerta de Santa María, Burgos reveals itself as that great capital of Castile, a place that nurt

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12 days ago

[ENG-SPN] Valderredible: The Labyrinth of Time / Valderredible: El Laberinto del Tiempo Always keeping in mind that adventure is adventure, and feeling like the protagonists of Jules Verne's marvelous novel, 'Captains Courageous,' we set sail for the Mystery…

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