![]() S'Espalmador is one of the last vestiges of Balearic nature unaltered by man. suspended in the air.Īerial view of S'Espalmador, on the Balearic island of Formentera. The island is private and belongs since 2018 to a family from Luxembourg who bought it for an astronomical amount, but you are allowed to visit its beautiful beaches, where the water is blue and malachite green and the Mediterranean so docile that bathers think they are floating. Nothing defines the image of Formentera better than a transparent and temperate sea and a pristine blue sky.Īs usually happens in S'Espalmador, a flat and sandy islet, covered with dunes and junipers, which extends the Balearic island beyond the sandy bar of Punta de Es Trucadors, to the north. The best time tunnel to a pre-industrial Asturias, but not so far away.īalearic Islands: S'Espalmador (Formentera) Real objects in their real environment, gathered by Pepe throughout a lifetime.Īs if the owners of it had suddenly left 60 or 70 years ago and left everything as is. The kitchen, the fireplace, the pharmacy, the shoemaker, the barber, the grocery store. They are complete scenes that reproduce home, life and work in rural Asturias. What makes this ethnographic museum special is that it does not have exhibits in glass cases. ![]() Posted by Ethnographic Museum of Grandas de Salime "Pepe el Ferreiro" on Wednesday, December 7, 2022 □Spaces of our Museum to visit again and again□Sites of our Museum to visit again and again□ Of the towns in the northwest of the peninsula, the Ethnographic Museum of Grandas de Salime, 141 kilometers west of Oviedo, is a reference point in western Asturias. The last blacksmith of the town, whose love for popular culture led him to gather several thousand objects of all kinds related to arts, trades, festivals and daily chores. Personal work of José Navieras, better known as The largest is the tower of the Prison, which belonged to an old fortress.įrom Huesca towards Barbastro, until connecting with N-230.Īsturias: Grandas de Salime Ethnographic Museum Several watchtowers still surround the town. You have to leave the vehicle on the outskirts and continue on foot through streets full of arches, passageways and vaulted corners to which the enormous rehabilitation carried out by individuals has brought life back. Lost at the bottom of a lateral ravine of the Noguera-Ribagorzana river, it is made up of two neighborhoods distributed on the sides of a torrent that crosses a Gothic bridge. Montañana is already mentioned in documents from the year 987, and is one of the best examples of a medieval rural nucleus that has been preserved in the Pyrenees.Īnd all thanks to the fact that the population gradually moved to the new town, Puente de Montañana, leaving the old one abandoned, but intact.Ĭhurch of the medieval town of Montañana, in Huesca. The most beautiful waterfalls in Spain: a spring excursion in each community Oriented perpendicular to the Muslim ones, covered by an oval vault.Ī century later, the set was enlarged to the appearance we see now. The 17th century extension consisted of another three naves, Six red marble columns have been preserved, three naves facing east -towards Mecca- and a simple wooden coffered ceiling, a unique case in all of Andalusia. Thanks to this, today we can enjoy an authentic Hispano-Muslim mosque from the 9th century with hardly any alterations. Located about 60 kilometers from the capital Malaga, it is a delight for the senses because, instead of destroying the temple, they simply readapted it to the new cult and enlarged the main nave a bit. There the Christians transformed the old aljama mosque into the hermitage of the Virgen de Gracia, patron saint of the town. The old Muslim city was up, on the hill that dominates the current urban complex. JESUS NOGUERA FERNNDEZ (Getty Images / iStockphoto)Īrchidona is one of the great Andalusian historical cities, with an important Roman and Arab past. View of the hermitage of the Virgen de Gracia, in the Malaga town of Archidona. These are 17 places that fascinate me and do not appear on the lists of the most visited in each autonomous community, and all of them deserve a detour.Īndalusia: the hermitage of the Virgen de Gracia (Archidona, Malaga) Spain is a place so full of fascinating places that sometimes we pass small hidden gems without realizing it, dwarfed by the big name landmarks.
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