Toledo and Cid Campeador
There per 1097, Diego Rodriguez de Vivar, son of the valiant Cid, fought next to Alfonso I SAW to defend his Christian kingdom. Day 15 of August of that year, the troops almorávides made them flee until the Castle of Consuegra, where they were able to be out of danger during something more than one week. But finally they fell before the enemy and, in this siege, the only son was dead man from the Valiant Cid. And it is this battle the one that imagines every August in the precious known toledano town like Consuegra. This town becomes with own scenes of the medieval time, showing to its customs and the society in which they lived. It turns out fascinating to cross the market and encontrarte, for example, with the calls story tellers, who gained the life entertaining to the visitors, or the astrologers, who remembered the past in situ or predicted the future. And he is that each 15 of August, and taking like reference works like Cantar from the Mine Cid, the Cantigas de Alfonso X and other old chronicles, imagines later by his streets and in their Castle, a series of scenes that commemorate this battle. We will be able to asisitir, for example, to rituals mozárabes military, the entrance of troops of Alfonso I SAW, to the siege to the Castle or the funeral ceremony by Diego Rodriguez. The last years a fascinating symbolic representation of this fight has been added on a chessboard. They denominate Ace Satrany, and recreates the moment of the combat.
In the outskirts of the town is Monte Calderito, from which not only we will enjoy the gorgeous landscape of the Spot, but also we will be able to visit the Wind Mills, which they will bring to our memory to impetuous hidalgo Don Quixote and his fight against the giants, and that from century XVI is aligned on the hill. There is also the austere Castle of Consuegra, raised strength of Roman origin in stone, that has been become with the later influences of Muslims and Christians. Nowadays it is again in reconstruction and it is used for tourist and cultural aims. In addition, Patrimony is considered Historical Spanish. By the way, which within this fortification it emphasizes the Flanking Tower, memory of the Arab culture, that is highest when having four floors.
Other sites to visit, already in the urban helmet, are the Church of San Juan Baptist, dated in 1567 and from style to mudéjar; the Church of the Santísimo Christ of the Side Cross, neobaroque building of 1803; or the Renaissance building located in the seat of Spain, where one is located the City council. It is not either necessary to let visit the local museum, where the rest are exposed, dumb witnesses of other times, found in the zone. As far as gastronomy, this municipality excels at national level by the cheese production manchego, saffron and virgin olive oil, and by the riquísimos plates that present/display like specialty, between which they emphasize the small boiler of lamb and migas. Consuegra, framed between Montes de Toledo and the Spot, is to 65 kms of capital Toledo and 66 kms of Real City. Consuegra, another point of the geography of Spain loaded of history that does not have to happen inadvertent.
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