CAMINO DE SANTIAGO

Thanks To Sonia , Sent 08/03/2022

The Camino de Santiago is a pilgrimage rooted in medieval origins. It leads to the tomb believed to be that of the Apostle Saint James the Greater, in the crypt of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral. The Camino was, and still is, Europe's oldest, busiest, and most well-known route

 

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• Dance: The Sevillanas

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    Spain
Series:
    Popular Dances
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    Dance
Issued on:
    2009-04-27

• Mountains and sea
  

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    Spain
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    Spanish Tourism 2016
Themes:
    Books | Sea | Tourism | Wine
Issued on:
    2016-01-02

• King Felipe VI
  

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    Spain
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    King Felipe VI (2016)
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    Crowns and Coronets | Famous People | Heads of State | Kings | Men | Royalty
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    2016-01-02

LEON LAS MEDULAS

 

Thanks estrellacards, sent 24.2.2021

  In the Bierzo, northwest of the Aquilanos Mountains and near the valley of the Sil River, lies Las Médulas, a fantastic landscape resulting from Roman gold mining. It is probably the largest gold mine dug by the Romans in their empire and is declared World Heritage by UNESCO.

Its reddish image hides a sinuous landscape of mystery. Nobody would say that these steep rocks bury, in their bowels, the gold of the Romans.

The mining stopped centuries ago, the site of Medulas becomes a beautiful landscape, very attractive from the tourist point of view, which is completed by the museum infrastructure of an archaeological workshop. It describes, in detail, the period of full activity of the largest open-air gold mining in the Roman Empire.

The Medulas offer to the visitor, beyond a landscape of extraordinary beauty, the possibility of knowing a curious and complex system of exploitation that the Roman geographer and naturalist, Pliny the Elder, will call 'ruina montium'.

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