A fortress on the Paths of El Cid

They say that Don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, the Cid Campeador - that same unwavering character, who not only attended, in the cathedral of San Salvador in Oviedo, the deposit of the holy relics kept for centuries on the tops of the Monsacro, but also , emulated Hercules, facing off in Tiermes with the terrifying serpent Elpha, who, according to legend, still sleeps in the catacombs of that unusual troglodyte city- was also lord of this fabulous fortress, which in addition to the castle, built on the escarpments, in whose bottom runs with melancholic indifference the river Escalote, still preserves a good part of the imposing walled enclosure that guarded it.

Fortress, later, of the powerful lords of Berlanga, who was also a witness, when in medieval thought the fateful arrival of the dreaded Apocalypse resounded with force, announced by San Juan, with the bells of the year thousand, of the step, mortally wounded, from one of the most formidable warriors and leaders of Islam, the warlord Almanzor, who was rightly nicknamed the 'scourge of God', for his devastating actions and cruelty against the Christian kingdoms of the north that opposed him. Data that must be taken into account, traveling friend, if you ever decide to follow the Paths of El Cid.

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