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Juan Carlos Menendez

juancar347-romanica.blogspot.com

Madrid - Spain

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[ENG-SPN] Bendones: Ark of Stone and Mystery / Bendones: Arca de Piedra y Misterio Although also located near Oviedo, this marvelous church of Santa María de Bendones, another important landmark of Asturian repopulation or pre-Romanesque art

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[ENG-SPN] The Wild Memory of Asturias / La Memoria Salvaje de Asturias Nature has always been both the great concealer and the most faithful protector of that impetuous set of archetypes, which, born from the

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[ENG-SPN] Monsacro: Echoes of the Hidden / Monsacro: Ecos de lo Oculto Dozens of unexplored burial mounds; dolmens hidden beneath octagonal Romanesque chapels; mysteriously vanished Black Virgins; unsettling Templar presences and

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[ENG-SPN] The Day They Mistook a King for a Pirate / El Día que Confundieron a un Rey con un Pirata Now it's another one of those idyllic fishing villages whose population swells every summer thanks to tourists captivated by its unique charm: Tazones. But th

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Lillo, the Vanishing Heritage Contemporary to the era when a sudden decision led King Ramiro I to consecrate a residential palace and transform it into a sacred space, the Church o

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[ENG-SPN] Naranco: Stone, Power, and Silence / Naranco: Piedra, Poder y Silencio The reasons that led one of the first kings of the Asturian monarchy to convert a residential palace, which overlooked the city of Oviedo on the slopes of Mou

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[ENG-SPN] Luarca, Heart of Legends / Luarca, Corazón de Leyendas Luarca is much more than a poem to beauty, whose verses were written millennia ago by an untamed nature, capable of stirring emotion even

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[ENG-SPN] Pajares, Border of the Invisible / Pajares, Frontera de lo Invisible One of the most mythical places in Spain is the Pajares Pass, considered since time immemorial as the natural passage connecting the misty mountains of Asturi

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[ENG-SPN] Liébana: Threshold of Mystery / Liébana: Umbral del Misterio The ultimate goal for every pilgrim who undertakes the Camino Lebanensis, or Liébana Way, braving gorges like La Hermida, following the Deva River upstream, i

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[ENG-SPN] Lebeña: The Sanctuary that Defies the Centuries / Lebeña: El Santuario que Desafía los Siglos Time passes, with its inexorable march, but when you stand before it, the centuries seem to barely touch its ancient architecture. The Church of Santa María d

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