The castle of Serón de Nágima, Soria

in #smwchallenge6 years ago

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Observing it, anyone could arrive at the mistaken conclusion that it is in North Africa, because in its atypical constitution, it faithfully reflects the same architectural patterns of mortar and clay that characterized not only the old North African fortresses, but also, the houses and to the towns that grew and developed outside of them. This can be corroborated, who has traveled in the area or, failing that, who has watched movies like Lawrence of Arabia, El Mahdi or any of the innumerable versions of that great classic entitled The Four Feathers.
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Heritage of the Islamic culture established for centuries on this side of the so-called frontier of the Duero, which delimited the expanding Christian kingdoms of the powerful Muslim organization, led by sura and sword from the Cordovan Caliphate, their ruined canvases collected, with melancholy nostalgia, the silences and avatars of times of splendor and decay, where people of different faiths, interests and intentions took shelter or assailed their bloody walls. Hence, that much of its decline is due, not so much to the struggle that the troops of Pedro I and those of Enrique de Trastámara, or to the War of Succession, kept within its walls the forces of Felipe V, as to the action of the Napoleonic artillery, which bombarded him severely during the War of Independence.
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But if this, added to the progressive abandonment, made a dent in this medieval jewel - one of the few, very few examples of its kind that any traveler traveling through the Iberian Peninsula will find - le coup de grâce or the coup de grace, he gave it the incomprehensible official passivity, even though - and this is even more incomprehensible, if possible - for many years it was on the red lists of historical-cultural heritage in danger of suffering a total collapse. As in fact, this was the case barely a couple of years ago, when several of the canvases collapsed which, as shown in the photographs that complement the present entry, miraculously remained standing.
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Sit transit gloria mundi.
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buenos días guapo
es una pena como no pueden mantener nuestro patrimonio, lo dejan abandonado y así no puede ser.se gastan el dinero en cosas sin importancia y la cultura a la basura
feliz miércoles

Lo cierto es que sí. No te imaginas todas las maravillas que se han dejado perder. Ahora están descubriendo los 'beneficios' de un nuevo tipo de turismo, el cultural, y en algunos casos están procediendo a rehabilitar y cuidar más estos hermosos testigos de nuestro pasado. No es un consuelo, pero en fin, más vale tarde que nunca. Feliz jueves

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