Since then that is wide Castile

He asserted that modern juggler of the Castile of yesterday, the Castile of today and the Castile of tomorrow, who was, under my humble point of view, that ingrained character whom the world knew by the sovereign name of Miguel Delibes, that breadth of Castile, depends not only on the perspective with which we view it, but also and very especially, on the part of Castile we dare to traverse. It does not cease to be an experience, when less subtle, to know, that, in that passionate eagerness of discovery, to know oneself as a nomad in the variegated geography of Castile entails, too, familiarizing oneself with some novel scenarios, where it is still possible to encounter, not only those immortal characters - allow me, to set as an example Mr. Caius, the one of the disputed vow or the unfortunate Azarias, the one of the 'beautiful kite bird'- but also, to meet with surprising and memorable survivors of a Cultural Heritage, which, fragmented. Broken and thirsty for justice, like the Castilian soils themselves, it still surprises by the magnitude of its grandeur.

It is enough, simply, to view them with the cabalistic gaze of another memorable knight, in this case, of that new Castile that holds out to Andalusia and Extremadura, Don Quixote, to see in them, giants of a spirituality who adopted the striking Romanesque architecture as model of expression, becoming, at once, undertakers and guardians of a debts, which, since the fall of the Common pendons, never again rose.

And still more: observing the beauty of its compact apse, where a fine blind archery calls attention, reminiscent and much, of the Lombard, joined, moreover, to the plastic expressiveness of a masterfully carved columns, the dreamy and interested traveller, one cannot but think, that, after all, in Castile, besides the popular model of Silos, there were other models well worth knowing.

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