San Baudelio de Berlanga
Horseshoe arches (photo: wikipedia)
The Mozarabic chapel of San Baudelio of Berlanga is one of the most unusual buildings of Spain. And it it is both from the architectural and symbolic point of view. On this one I recommend to them the reading of the chapter that Javier García Blanco dedicates to it in his book Ars Secreta, to which also one alludes in a post of the blog of the same name: Ars Secreta: San Baudelio de Berlanga.
On his strange interior architecture, they can read this article: Chapel of San Baudelio of Berlanga in Casillas of Berlanga (Soria).
The big column in the shape of palm tree is one of the signs of identity of the chapel (photo: wikipedia)
The most recent thing that I have read on San Baudelio two earnings of the excellent blog are a Light rasante (from already in my blogroll), in that the history of his paintings is described:
The paintings of San Baudelio I. The pillaging
The paintings of San Baudelio II. The restoration
In Soria way is done to the gait they have several things on the magic of San Baudelio. Of the same author it is this video:
There is another interesting article in the web of Casillas of Berlanga.
If they have occasion to visit the place, now when there comes the good weather (or I believe that), do do it. And if they take photos, do not mislead them like me.
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The Route of the Jázaros
Wikio
I read to you for enough time because I love this blog (thanks for so much work and of so many quality!). Just I am preparing a trip to Soria and, of course, I will pass for San Baudilio. Interesting what! I leave some curious places of Gallicia to you that I have been reviewing that you can like:
The Chain of the Pardon of the Hospital of the Incio
http://www.manuelgago.org/blog/index.php/2008/06/12/a-cadea-do-perdon-do-hospital-do-incio/
The nipples of the nereiras of the monastery of Samos
http://www.manuelgago.org/blog/index.php/2008/06/08/feijoo-cunqueiro-cabanillas-e-as-tetas-das-nereidas-de-samos/
The crypt covered with the Monastery of Lobás:
http://www.manuelgago.org/blog/index.php/2007/12/19/misterios-subterraneos-e-lendas-no-mosteiro-de-lobas/
The Castle of San Felipe in Ferrol
http://www.manuelgago.org/blog/index.php/2008/05/17/bovedas-ciclopeas-no-castelo-de-san-felipe-no-ferrol/
… and there is more …
Thanks for the recommendations. Not at all like Gallicia for magic places.
If you go to Soria, do visit also the cannon of the Rio Wolves, in Ucero.