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LANDSCAPES

SAN LORENZOMOUNTAIN

MATUTE AT DAWN

(or at dusk?)

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ENCISO

Dinosaurs footprints were discovered there. Sobig they were!

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AGUILAR DEL RO ALHAMACONTREBIA LEUKADE

An Iron Age Celtiberic Settlement

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CANTABRIA MOUNTAINCeltiberic settlement. Logroo city

origine.

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VAREARoman settlement

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DEFENSIVE CASTLESVital in the fight agains Arab invasion

(From top to bottom and from left to right)

Quel, Arnedo, San Vicente de la Sonsierra y San Asensio

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CLAVIJO AND ITS CASTLE

The castle is a temoin of resistence agains Arabinvasions in the Middel Age. Saint Jacques cross is inone of its round turret.

The legend says that Apostle Saint Jacques appearedriding a white horse and holding a sword to helpchristians against invasors.

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SORZANOPROCESIN DE LAS CIEN DONCELLAS

(One hundred young girls procession)

Every year the invasors demanded fromthe villages of our region 100 young girls

(virgins) for them as a tribute, whatmade our ancestors furious.

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JACQUES SHELLSIGN THAT IDENTIFIES THE PILGRIM TRAIL

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JACQUES WAYthrough Logroo

By bycicle, on foot The purpose is to get to Compostela.

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SAN MILLN DE LA COGOLLASUSO AND YUSO MONASTRIES

They are considered the Spanish language cradle

In the middle: Gonzalo de Berceo, the first writer known in

Spanish language.

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THE GLOSSESThe first words in Spanish and Basque language. The

manuscript dates about 970 A.D. They were found in a

church book. The glosses are the comments in Spanishand Basque that priests wrote on the right side of the pagewith texts in latin to use them when preding.

On the right: Spanish Language Room in Yuso Monastry.The flags represent the American countries and the

Spanish regions where our language is spoken

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N JERACapital city of Najera-Pamplona s Kingdom in XI centurySANTA MARA LA REAL MONASTRY (FRONT, CLOISTER AND

KING S GRAVES)

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MONASTRIES

VALVANERA(Romanesque)

CAAS (Gothic)

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ROMANESQUEHermitage Santa Mara de la Piscina (San Vicente de la Sonsierra),

San Cristbal (Canales), Valgan and Navarrete cemetry gate.

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GOTHIC ART. CeilingsCasalarreina, Logroo, Caas y Calahorra

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SANTO DOMINGO DE LA CALZADARomanesque and gotic outside, baroque tower, henhouse,

romanesque inside and gotic ceiling.

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EZCARAYTypical architecture in streets and main square. At the bottom Church

and ski facilities.

Ezcaray: On feet of Demanda chainof mountains lies Ezcary, an almost2.000 inhabitants village, thatreceives summer tourists as well aswinter tourists. In its closest

mountains there is a ski station. Itslandscapes are beautiful andpeaceful.

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VINEYARDS IN LA RIOJA ALTA

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The fertile land is cultivated with special care andprovides excellent products: fruits, vegetables,

grapes for wine (Rioja wine, considered one of thebest in the world) and many others.

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HAROOn the left, The Town Hall. On 29th June takes place, in the mountainsclose to Haro, La Batalla del vino(the Wine-battle), in which people

usually throw some wine to each other, as if it were a battle, using themost original devices. Haro was in the nineteenth century the first place

in Spain, at the same time that in Madrid, that got the electricityequipment. From that time comes the expression: We are near Haro,

as we can see its lights .

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Haro: La Rioja Alta capital. In Haro you can findin the Barrio de la Estacin(railway station area)the biggest amount of centenary wine cellars allover the world.

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THE GRAPES ARE ALREADYRIPE. IT IS HARVEST TIME

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WINE IS PUT INTO OAK BARRELS TOBECOME CRIANZA, RESERVA AND

GRAN RESERVA(Juan Alcorta winecellar in Logroo. It

contains 70.000 oak barrels)

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WINE MUST BE WATCHEDOVER and tasted.