HISTORY: PONFERRADA CASTLE
Jun 9, 2010 Architecture, Capital, Capitals, Castilla y León, Culture, History, History León, Monument, Monuments, Monuments León, Tourism, Tourism, Cultured Tourism, Tourism León
Ponferrada is a beautiful city which the River Sil runs through. Its many ruins hold great cultural importance, providing evidence of the different civilisations that lived there in the past.
One of these ruins is the Ponferrada Castle, declared a Historic Artistic Monument in 1924.
Tags: Art, Way of Saint James, Castilla y León, Ponferrada Castle, Templar Castle, Culture, Leon Culture, History, History León, León, Monument, Monuments, Ponferrada, River Sil, Tourism, Cultured Tourism, History Tourism, Tourism León, Ponferrada Tourism
HISTORY: “OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY OF LA PUERTA”
Dec 28, 2009 Architecture, Culture, History, History León, Church, Mountain, Monuments León, Landscapes, Villages, Tourism, Cultured Tourism, Tourism León
When the floodgates of the Riaño dam closed in 1987, the following villages were flooded: Salio, Escaro, Pedrosa del Rey, Huelde, Anciales, Riaño (a new Riaño was built) and La Puerta. The church from this last village was saved and it is the focus of this article.
The Church of Our Lady of the Rosary was transported, stone by stone, to the new Riaño. This building has an apse that dates from the 13th and 14th century and contains Gothic paintings inside which are particularly rare in Spain.
Tags: Castilla y León, Cantabrian Chain, Culture, Leon Culture, History, History León, Riaño History, León, Mountain, Monument, Monuments, Nature, Landscape, Villages, Riaño, Rosario de la Puerta, Routes, Hiking, Tourism, Cultured Tourism, History Tourism, Tourism León, Natural Tourism