Towns and legends Tietar Valley

The truth is that the media exaggerated a tad. Or not, but the impression of the news was tremendous. Last summer there were fires in the Valley of Tiétar, there were two deaths. 4,000 hectares were burnt in high and remote area, it represents 0.5 percent of the surface of the Gredos Regional Park, which is a fraction, in turn, the width and smiling Tiétar Valley. But tourism has suffered, and that is unfair. The mountain is only the edge of a region as diverse as extensive. Lying as a canvas in the midday sun, and protected his back by the wall of Gredos. That makes it there, even in winter, the weather is mild, orange blossom, lemon, fig, pomegranate, grapes, olives, Mediterranean almonds, prickly pears and increasingly, the palm trees.

In fact, the sign of the enclave is conventional and inaccurate. It is not one but many valleys. And very different. Perhaps to make amends, maps distinguish between Upper and Lower Tiétar (but do not trust the High is low and flat, while the Under is crossed by mountain roads). In any case, the glue of all these valleys and small valleys, tall or short, is the landscape (or landscape). So no wonder you have come to graze in their beauty a good flock of literati. Cela De Unamuno, through Baroja, Juan Ramón, Leon Felipe, Maranon Benavente.

And what usually happens when there is through literature: the literary gap. One thing is what you dream of poets, and quite another daily. The exalted folk architecture, for example, now have to look very closely. The villas have grown faster than Lanzahita studs, which is saying something.

The tranquility of yesteryear, They breathed who invented the Summer, Has been transformed (and that’s not bad) in a frenzy of mountaineers, hikers, campers, bikers … Active tourism has become the watchword, the redeeming formula, the Word made flesh. Cheli said in plan: another tourism is possible.

In case there was doubt Tiétar Valley (Upper) starts, coming from Madrid, at Santa Maria del Tiétar, which seems to urbanization of Madrid. Sotillo de la Adrada is more of the same, and big. What would the Benavente Ladyma, or Baroja Wandering Lady if they saw what had become the scenes of separate works. The Adrada is something else. Especially when hanging from the castle hill, which have been restored (redoneWould be more accurate) five years ago and paying visits. At the entrance of the village have managed a palm-lined promenade, which apparently is one in Alicante.

Piedralaves took advantage of the passage of Cela, and the compliments he lectured in Jews, Moors and Christians: “Linda and tiny like a flower“(As in”Avila Andalusia“Or”Spanish Switzerland“And it seemed worse). Piedralaves is not tiny, has been a pioneer of tourism in the region, and only keeps a few streets and old houses in its upper part. More fortunate was Pedro Bernardo.’s Official title Balcony Tiétar obvious. Here is preserved architecture a little more authentic, with passageways and alleys in a step-impossible for cars-and a muffled speech from 14 sources, as scored in Ciro Bayo The traveler entertained. Is still a donkey, but many more quads the devil, and people in bars, talk a lot about horses.

The prologue Arenas de San Pedro is Ramacastanas and Eagle Cave, a well-operated business, every half hour, every day of the year. Arenas look like a city if one runs red light at traffic lights down the street / road. But not a shadow of what it was. Its origin is in the forges of Avila, when the iron crosses the medieval bridge (not Roman) road from the ports of the mountains. The constable Davalos up at the end of XIV, the castle which would then at the hands of Don Alvaro de Luna, when he sliced his head, his widow, Juana Pimentel, sent its letters like “the Sad Countess“, and that’s the nickname he inherited the castle. Not much to see inside.

Opposite, on a hill, the Infante Don Luis, brother of Charles III, started to build a palace to cope with an exile for marrying a skill unequal in rank and 32 years younger. It was an educated man, and brought the likes of Goya, who painted half a dozen family portraits, or Luigi Boccherini, the musician came in 1778, and in the eight years he spent in composing his Arenas Stabat Mater, Six symphonies and quintets opus 30, in Boccherini’s Tavern, next to the Gothic church, as well as remind prepare a casserole of mushrooms as exquisite as its music (the palace unfinished, is being restored).

At the exit from Arenas, a stroll along the creek Avellaneda leads to the Monastery of San Pedro de Alcantara. The saint was the confessor of St. Teresa, who said of him that seemed made of branches, a saint who was getting rain if there was drought, and crossed the river walking on the water to go to another monastery of El Palancar, land Caceres. The place is delicious, the chapel where her remains were traced by Ventura Rodriguez, assisted by Sabatini, and the museum that administer the seven surviving brothers worthwhile for one who loves painting and religious carvings.

For there amounts to Valley or Barranco de las Cinco Villas, perhaps the most picturesque Tietar as landscape. Of the five villas (all last name “Valley“), Santa Cruz, San Esteban and Villarejo have lost much of its traditional architecture. Cuevas del Valle, for its part, is crisscrossed by a Roman road that was not important, but is the best preserved of all. Both, has continued to be used over the centuries as a real canyon (the Leon West), precisely the origin of caves is in the shrine, beside the road, where nomadic herders fulfilled their religious duties.

The navel of this valley is Mombeltrán, with a fifteenth century castle that looks very wide: a facade. Behind the Puerto del Pico de Gredos climbing the wall, the Unamuno called “Castilla ceiling and stone heart of Spain“. George Borrow,”Don Huey of the Bible “Crossed the eastern massif in 1836 and claimed that in their lakes swarming monsters and serpents as long as a pine was a popular belief that Baroja also collected and other writers. Two years earlier, in 1834, Gregory Aznar and six colleagues conducted the first Cruise reflected in a story published.

To reach the Under Tiétar must overcome many mountain curves. Pit Poyales allows a break. The air is already more Caceres. And much more Candeleda, whose streets and houses are typical of La Vera, looking like a ghetto. There is a toy museum, the oldest in Poyales and another very recent Candeleda, “the Casa de las Flores“Created by Luis Figuerola-Ferretti (the Dona María radio) and some friends.

About 10 miles Candeleda is El Raso, the call Route Vettones and Pastors. What of the pastors is clear from the goats that cross like crazy through the road of Vettones it is also clear if one climbs a couple of kilometers to the Celtic which lies in a fold of Pico Almanzor. From there take another string of the glen real. And if one chews more, what you see are wild goats, who jump on the peaks overlooking the valley Tietar.

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Museum of Iron – Spanish ironwork is concerned

One of the best museums in the world in terms of Spanish ironwork is concerned.

Located in the old town, the Museum of Iron is a building of 800 square meters fully integrated in the environment whose main objective is to bring the iron work of the public.

It created from the private collection of Luis Elvira, sampled over its nearly five hundred pieces, raising the blacksmith to the highest levels, when the office ceases to be to become singular artistic expression.

It presents a variety of pieces of various kinds, from kitchen utensils to jewelry and from the twelfth to the twentieth century. Our attentive visit we will understand and appreciate a range of objects that once were common use today, for the work that would make them, they would not price.

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LUXMBURGO GARDENS

Both the gardens and the palace, was Maria de ‘Medici who commissioned its construction, said that nostalgia is the Pitti Palace in Florence. She was the queen regent due to the minority of Louis XIII. Today the palace houses the Senate.
From 7.30-8.00 to sunset.
Metro: Luxembourg.

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Eglise de Saint Sulpice

This church was built between 1646 and 1780. It consists of several chapels, the first from the right, dedicated to Ste Anges is decorated with frescoes by Delacroix. The front has two rows of columns and is characteristic by its two towers.
In the square is the Fountain of the Four Bishops in 1844.
St. Suplice place.
Metro: St. Suplice.

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Eglise saint germain des pres paris

This Romanesque style church, dating from the XI cent, it is the oldest preserved in Paris. It was the largest until the construction of Notre Dame. In the chapel of St Symphorien housing the remains of germ, it was the first bishop of Paris.

S.VI and VIIth century during the Merovingian kings were buried here (before there was an abbey church), but disappeared after the Revolution remains.
Mon-Sat 8.00-17.00, 9.00-20.00 do.
Place St Germain 3, 6e.
Metro: St Germain des Pres.

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Famous museum in paris france

Paris, as city culture that is, has a wide range of museums. The main Louvre museum, one of the largest in the world, if not the most important because it has many works from around the world.

Following is famous of museums in Paris, with its address and its official website for more information, such as tariffs, opening hours, images, etc…

List of Museums in Paris

Louvre Museum
Cour Napoleon (Place du Carrousel) 75001 District 1.
Website: www.louvre.fr

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Musee d’Orsay
Rue de la Legion d’Honneur 75007, Distito 7.
Website: www.musee-orsay.fr

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Grevin Museum (wax museum – famous double)
10, Boulevard Montmartre 75009 District 9
Website: www.grevin.com

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Pompidou Center
Place Georges Pompidou 75,004 Distito 4
Website: www.centrepompidou.fr

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Rodin Museum
77, Rue de Varenne 75007 District 7.
Website: www.musee-rodin.fr

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Musée de l’Armée Invalides
129, rue de Grenelle 75007 District 7 (Esplanade des Invalides)
Website: www.invalides.org

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Musée de l’Orangerie
Place de la Concorde, Jardin des Tuileries 75,001
Website: www.musee-orangerie.fr

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Picasso Museum
5, Rue de Thorigny 75003 District 3.
Website: www.musee-picasso.fr

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Natural History Museum
57, rue Cuvier 75,005 District 5 (Garden of Plants)
Website: www.mnhn.fr

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Carnavalet Museum (Museum of Paris history
23, Rue de Sevigne 75,003 District 3
Website: http://www.paris.fr/portail/Culture/Portal.lut?page_id=6468

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Museum of Eroticism
72, Boulevard de Clichy 75018 District 18
Website: www.musee-erotisme.com

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