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Juan Carlos Menendez

juancar347-romanica.blogspot.com

Madrid - Spain

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[ENG-SPN] The 12th-Century Swan the Renaissance Preferred to Forget / El Cisne del Siglo XII que el Renacimiento Prefirió Olvidar We find ourselves in the heart of Ayllón, in the Plaza Mayor, which still retains much of its original medieval charm, to admire, as much as possible, that wh

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[ENG-SPN] The Cemetery That Holds a Lost Tale / El Cementerio que Guarda un Relato Perdido Like in Federico Fellini's famous film, but certainly without any intention of adding suspicion to any criticism, good or bad, the ship sets sail, and inside,

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[ENG-SPN] Ayllón and the Shadow of the Temple / Ayllón y la Sombra del Templo Austere, yet harmonious and not lacking in subtle elegance, the Franciscan architecture surprises us on the outskirts of Ayllón and reminds us, with that sedu

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3 days ago

[ENG-SPN] Maderuelo Was Not the End of the Road / Maderuelo No Era el Final del Camino The great essayist and writer Susan Sontag affirmed that collecting photographs is collecting the world, and that is our mission, at least, to bring to the ey

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4 days ago

[ENG-SPN] Maderuelo: The Other Side of Mystery / Maderuelo: la Otra Orilla del Misterio We leave behind the beautiful hermitage of Vera Cruz and cross to the other side of the reservoir, where Maderuelo welcomes us with that apparent isolation

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6 days ago

Five Villages: The Humble Beauty of Eternity Today our attention turns once again to Aragon and those endearing historical, artistic, and cultural enigmas that, in that special region known as the

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7 days ago

[ENG-SPN] Where Dalí and the Templars meet / Donde Dalí y los Templarios se dan la mano That thunderbolt, not dressed as a Nazarene, precisely, but as a prophet of Surrealism, Salvador Dalí, advised artists not to seek perfection because they wou

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[ENG-SPN] The Monastery Revealed Only at First Sight / El Monasterio que Solo la Primera Mirada Revela I suppose that if Don Quixote, once again that nobleman with lance in the rack, ancient shield, lean horse, and swift greyhound, were to take to the mountains

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8 days ago

[ENG-SPN] The Church that Watches Over the Land of Snows of Yesteryear / La Iglesia que Vigila el País de las Nieves de Antaño What remains of the Romanesque church of San Vicente, whose structure also comes from the master workshops that, established in Fuentidueña, established spiri

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9 days ago

[ENG-SPN] Geometries of Dreams and Shadows / Geometrías del Sueño y de la Sombra We leave behind that imaginary Romanesque Fraga, which, in our reverie, is the mythical church of San Miguel de Fuentidueña, and a few kilometers further on,

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