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El Hierro: the island of the aim of the world
This summer, we had the opportunity to spend an incredible week in the Iron, the most western island of the Canary Islands. The Iron is an authentic declared paradise reserve of the integral biosphere (title that only shares other two islands in the world), which they inhabit 8000 people.
The origin of the Iron is volcanic, and most of its territory it is formed by recent lava. The coasts very high and are escarped, and any sand beach does not exist, although if there are natural swimming pools like the one of Tamaduste. The life in the Iron is very relaxed throughout the year, although reason why we could see, is animated enough in summer due to the popular celebrations of the towns, that by all means count on their popular verbena and orchestra with native singers (it is not possible to be denied that although very far from the peninsula we followed in Spain)
They exist in the iron multitude of places incredible to visit. We are going to see some of them of summarized form. The end of Orchila: The aim of the world The end of Orchila is the most western zone of the Spanish territory, and up to 1492 it thought that it was the aim of the world. Until 1885, meridian 0 passed by this place, represented by the light of Orchila. The Garoé: The Santo tree It counts the legend that. [… in the days of the conquest had in the island of Hero, (Iron at the present time) a tree to that the natural ones called Garoé, and did not know the students another similar tree in all the archipelago or well-known earth. This era able to distill the water of the mists that arrived at him, by its great leaves, being this collection in hoquedades done in the ground by the natural ones of the Earth. There was no more water in Hero than the one that distilled the Garoé. It was for that reason that the Bimbaches adored this tree as if a God it was, always guarding by their well-being and security…] The tree santo no longer is in the Iron, but in the place where always it was it planted one new one to represent the legend. The place can be visited to see in direct the pools that form there. The millenarian sabinas Sabinar of the Iron is one of the most surprising places due to the form in which these trees have molded themselves. The sabinas that are in the place, present/display twisted forms because the violence of winds and the climatic conditions have been molded during centuries by. A place to visit without a doubt.
If you want to travel to the Iron, you can find more information in its official page of tourism.
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Gran Canaria: thousand of landscapes
Located in the Atlantic Ocean, next to the coasts of Africa and comprising of the Canary Islands, Gran Canaria is an island of resistances, lives and with great natural wealth. It is for that reason that was declared World-wide Reserve of the Biosphere by UNESCO from year 2005. And it is that Gran Canaria is an island that surprises by its diversity of landscapes. It turns out incredible to find, in so short distances, zones of barren dunes next to leafy forests, or impressive cliffs near interminable golden beaches. Flood of forms and colors, Gran Canaria surrounds by its vistosidad and its joy.
Numerous beaches of quality have made it famous in the interminable world, emphasizing among them Maspalomas and its dunes, the indómita Güigüi and tourist the Quarries. And that is not everything, because in the south of this island we will be able to lose in anyone of its numerous coves and naturistas beaches to us. But this island offers still much more. For example, in the Palms of Gran Canaria, capital of the island, we will have to our disposition a great amount of proposals to occupy our time of leisure: Theaters, museums, sports, music… everything within reach of our hand. Between the multitude of places to cross we do not have to lose to us: The district of the Vegueta, precious route to enjoy the vision of the canary typical houses, with its beautiful wood balconies. Here we will be able to visit the Cathedral of Santa Ana, dated in 1497, and the Atlantic Center of Modern Art, in which the works as much of canary artists as of beyond the Atlantic are exposed. The Canary museum and its impressive collection of rest guanches, the original inhabitants of the islands. The Canary Town, created by the canary artist Néstor of the Tower, that is located in the Doramas Park and shows the beauty of the canary architecture. The canary Garden, botanical garden with which one is to protect to the native species of the Islands. Other points of the city that we do not have to let pass are: The House of Columbus, the Museum of Beautiful Arts, the House Museum of Benito Perez Galdós or the Audience Alfredo Kraus.
Already if we go away to the South, we enjoy the varied opportunities of diversion that offers the coast of Maspalomas: sport wharves, aquatic parks, golf courses, submarine activities, etc. And it is that between the 21 municipalities of they compose Gran Canaria, each one with enchantment and own personality, we can find much to discover. They emphasize among them Arucas, old and proud city of his extensive plataneras plantations, their gothic cathedral and its Mountain of Arucas, from where the Vista is magnificent; Telde, illustrious city of raised streets, that count between their treasures with more than one hundred archaeological deposits and more than seven hundred catalogued goods of ethnographic interest; Mogán, and its beautiful landscapes of flowers and fruits; Teror, and its “dirt roads” through which formerly they passed the cavalries. In this last named municipality one is located the beautiful basilica in honor of the Virgin of the Pine and the House of Doña Teresa de Bolivar, wife of the Simón Bolivar, colonial style. On the other hand, its gastronomy also is a strongpoint that the tourist makes return to visit it. Their wrinkled Popes, the “Old Clothes”, the broth of fish, the potaje of watercresses, the rabbit in salmorejo or the “Old one sancochada”, among other plates, will make them become lean the fingers. Exquisite desserts, like the Bienmesabe, and a wine with denomination of origin of “Gran Canaria” will finish convincing it. Gran Canariais connected so much with the Iberian Peninsula as with the rest of the archipelago thanks to regular flights that land in Gando, its only airport. In addition they also work the service of flights charter towards different European cities. And if we preferred to travel in boat, there is no problem. We can beyond take one of the ferries or jetfoils that communicates the Port of the Light of Gran Canaria with Tenerife, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, and, with the Port of Cadiz. You do not lose our recommendations on hotels in Gran Canaria.
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Plasencia, a great stop in Extremadura
Extremadura seems, at first, a land of barren landscapes, product of the image that produces the strong heat to us caused by the so level sun and its landscapes. Long plains that trim the highways that cross it. But between the cherry trees of the Valley of the Jerte, and the National Park of Monfragüe, near the Edge, we were with a beautiful city: Plasencia. The blazon that in its day granted Alfonso VIII, founder of the town, indicates that Plasencia hides after the towers and the rest that are of their wall “so that it pleases to God and the men”. A full town of churches and palaces is Plasencia. A place where one breathes tradition and withdrawal in many of his streets. It is the aroma that is breathed by great part of Extremadura and its towns, condensed here, in a few streets: the palace of Monroy, the one of Marquess de Mirabel, the house of the Hoops where Juana married the Beltraneja and Alfonso V of Portugal. The house of the Dean is one of the oldest buildings of the city, of century XVII. In the building corner emphasizes its balcony mainly doing and, the heráldica of shields of all the families who inhabited it.
The Episcopal Palace is of century XV, although it was finished in the XVI. At the moment it welcomes the Diocesano File and the Library of the old school of the Jesuits. Its facade is Renaissance, although it emphasizes his back part, so white, standing out over the walls that they give to the Jerte river. The Cathedral of Plasencia is its jewel, with a new part and another old one. Its construction was carried out between centuries XII and XVI giving to monumental image to an exquisite set in which they emphasize his vaults and their octogonal cupola, to that popularly is known like “the Melon”. In the heat of spring, to take a walk in the environs is a pleasure able to fill us the senses, because not only the Vista enjoys this monument, but also the sense of smell, by the naranjos in flower that extend the cathedral set in front of. Happening in front of the prison we arrived at the Greater Seat. Almost in its entrance, we were with the City council, in which it emphasizes the real shield that it shows in its facade. The present building is a reconstruction of year 1966, based on the old one of year 1523. Even so, the File of 1569 as well as commemorative inscriptions of the taking of Granada by Kings Católicos are conserved in their interior. The clock of the Council dates from year 1546, while the articulated doll that is seen next to the bell (the well-known as Mayorga Grandfathers) is of year 1743. It was destroyed by the French in 1811, but reconstructed again in 1936. The present data of year 1977. Finally, the Greater Seat, in the one than is necessary to savor the air that is breathed at the moments at which a traditional swap-meet is opened… And thus, between nostalgia of these traditions, and the tranquillity of its streets, we directed our passages towards the walls of the city, to lose to us in its History and to throw a last look to this satately city before directing our passages towards the near Monastery of Yuste.
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Tarragona, city of the Romans
The presence of Rome in the Iberian Peninsula extended for more than six centuries, larguísimo period of time in which the territory, in greater or smaller measurement, was adopted to the institutions and forms of government of the capital of the Tíber. One of the most outstanding examples of that romanización was Tarragona, the old Tarraco. Capital of the province of the Tarraconense (that almost included half of the peninsula), this present Catalan city supposes attractive a tourist one of first magnitude. The rest of the Roman time that keep in her, as much inside their Archaeological Museum are numerous, like in a brief stroll by their streets.
One of the most outstanding characteristics of Tarragona is the presence of two Roman forums, one for the government of the municipality and another one for the one of the province. This one last one we found it in the part high of the city of Tarragona, in plaça of the Forum, very next to the Cathedral. The peculiar thing is that this one was constructed on the rest of an old temple that at Roman time was dedicated to the imperial cult. It is a magnificent example of how the religious function of a space has remained throughout the centuries, in different stages. In the inferior part of the forum of the province the Circus is born, where to the flat racing and quadriga were developed, very appreciated by the Roman citizenship. At the moment, one conserves of this building a part of the launching slips and an inner gallery. Plaça of the Font, where we can find the City council of Tarragona, is constructed on the rest of this circus. And also is extremely peculiar the fact that the form of this seat is extended, and follows the same direction of which had to be that circus.
The three buildings (temple-cathedral, forum and circus) formed in their day the religious, political and idle life of the Roman Tarraco. Bordering them are the walls. The Archaeological Stroll of Tarragona, that follows the course of these, supposes an authentic trip in the time, backing down twenty centuries towards which it was the time of maximum splendor of this city. Two statues preside over it. On the one hand, the one of Octavio Augusto, first emperor of Rome, that directed from Tarraco happening of the Cantabrian Wars. And, on the other hand, a Capitolina She-wolf, symbol of the capital of the Tíber, donated in years 30 by Italy. A bastion of the walls constituted the Tower of Pretorio, that offers in its superior part a magnificent Vista of Tarragona and its beach. Next to this one, we found one of architectonic jewels of the city: the Roman amphitheatre. In an optimal state of conservation, the presence of a paleocristiana basilica powerfully calls the attention of its interior, raised in the sand. This one was constructed to remember the martyrdom of san Fructuoso, bishop of Tarragona in the years of the persecutions to the Christians in the Roman Empire, and two of its diáconos, Eulogio and Augurio. This way, a primitive place of leisure became monk during very many years.
All it offers the Catalan city of Tarragona. But he is not everything, since their environs also are scenes of many Roman rest, like the Tower of the Escipiones and the Arc of Bará (both on foot of the Route Augusta, present N-340, in the direction of Barcelona) or the Pont of the Giveable, a magnificent aqueduct to the outskirts. Without a doubt, when referring us to the Roman presence in the Iberian Peninsula it is necessary to speak of Tarragona. For the lovers of this old civilization, the visit to this city is essential. It supposes, in any case, a jump in the time that makes us remember the most important presence of Rome in this territory, that bequeathed numerous cities, public laws and works there where outside
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Córdoba and The Mosque
This beautiful poem perfectly reflects feeling of that step by step advances by that magical temple, surrounded by colorful columns and voussoirs, red and white, that seems to mark to a way nonsignalized within a strange labyrinth of lights and shades. Advancing by its interior, without lowering the Vista, always watching at its arcs and their ceilings, we heard in the middle of the sound of silence, how our passages on the marble are lost in an itinerary without final order nor. But we begin by that she is perhaps one of the most beautiful seats than we pruned ourselves to find in Cordoba, the califal city that welcomes this impressive work of art that is the Mosque: the Patio of the Naranjos. In its center, and we try to inhale its aroma of April and May to orange blossom, coolness, freedom. And surrounded in that warm scent, we will remember how in Arab time, there, in that same patio the ablutions were made; as justice to the doors of the temple were distributed; we will watch towards another one of its sides, and will see like, or astronomers, mathematicians and so many and so many wise people who populated Cordoba with that one time propagated their knowledge between the people of on foot, and or comedians and teatros entertained with their legend and its stories to the children, who, seated crowded around themselves around to his. The Patio of the Naranjos, nowadays, is considered like the older alive garden of Europe, because their beginnings date from year 784, under the mandate of Abd al-Rahman I. If nicialmente, these gardens were basically formed by cypresses and palms, nowadays are the naranjos those that invade it: ninety and naranjos that was planted during century XVIII. Of century XVI, on the contrary, they are the claustros that in one of the sides of the garden we can observe. The enclosure of one hundred thirty meters, and closed, is divided in three gardens in whose center there is a beautiful source. … and once admired and inhaled the pleasant atmosphere of this magnificent garden, the heart shrinks when putting the foot within the temple and observing for the first time the impressive Room of the Columns… more than 800 columns and arcs that are distributed geometrically and that hide at sight back in the bottom, in a landscape without end. The one was the own Abd al-Rahman I that began its construction, building its first oratorio in the middle of century VIII, being inspired by a mosque that existed at that time in Jerusalém. The result was the construction of eleven ships with 110 columns in marble and granite, with Roman and capitals. On them, arcs vaulted in red and white colors. Their descendant, Abd al-Rahman III, ordered to erect alminar half century later, whereas Al-Hakam II extended the mosque more other twelve sections. Of the later time of Al-Manzor it is the part in which the columns are of blue marble, time in which almost the surface of the Mosque bent in size, until reaching the 24,000 m2 that he has.
The two perhaps more beautiful parts of the temple belong to the time of Al-Hakam II: the marble Mihrab, scenery rich working, and the octogonal cupola of the Kibla, with interlaced arcs. Of this time they emphasize the corintios capitals and marbles in blue pale and pink. Perhaps the construction in its interior of the Christian cathedral has been one of the greater aberrations than they have been possible to make as far as reform in the architectonic set, because a part of works made during the time of Abd was destroyed al-Rahmán III and Almanzor. Its construction began under the supervision of Hernán Ruiz the Old one in 1523, by express mandate of Carlos V, but it was not finished until year 1766. In him the styles were conjugated gothic, Renaissance and baroque; the ship and the cruise are in Latin Cross, with gothic arcs. The zone of the Alminar, tower located in the patio, from which at Arab time it was called to the oration, was covered by baroque elements, covering therefore, all those Arab rest that composed it. It would be necessary to emphasize two curiosities in this building: in the first place, any mosque assumes that there is to be oriented towards Mecca…. this one in particular, in spite of being the third most important one of the world, is not it, because its direction is towards Damascus, city by which felt passion Secondly its Abd al-Rahmán I., the situation of the Mihrab. The Mihrab is the most sacred place of Arab nobody tmeplo, because it remembers the site that Mahoma prophet occupied in his Mosque of Medina. It is the arc or located place in center of the wall of the Kibla, that marks the direction of Mecca. In the case of the Cordovan Mosque, the Mihrab is not located in center of the temple, where it would have to be; and this must to later extension that made Almanzor, that when making it by the Eastern part, because no longer it had left more space by the other sides, left its location off-center. … and once admired this wonder, declared Patrimony of the Humanity, already only we have left to lose us by the narrow narrow streets of the district of the Judería… but that, that is another history….
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