Carpe Diem
![[ENG-SPN] Valderredible: The Labyrinth of Time / Valderredible: El Laberinto del Tiempo](https://images.hive.blog/768x0/brokenimg.jpg)
Always keeping in mind that adventure is adventure, and feeling like the protagonists of Jules Verne's marvelous novel, 'Captains Courageous,' we set sail for the Mystery…
![[ENG-SPN] Saint Martin of Tours: The Dark Night of the Medieval Soul / San Martín de Tours: la noche oscura del alma medieval](https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/juancar347/EnqRCiRSmXVKzzBfCKTa4Vf7jymZjXkUDd3MrHMysS7twQJB4FdkcLPWB7NUGNhQXjo.JPG)
Another of the most spectacular Romanesque architectural gems in this area of the Sierra de la Demanda is located a few kilometers further on, in a…
![[ENG-SPN] Esoteric Castile: Templars, the Grail, and Romanesque Art / Castilla esotérica: templarios, Grial y románico](https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/juancar347/EpxpNqKZhuT6cVLnor7tdYQspZTKa4bbFn8y6Agg3ptjbyK6fi6cJYYfA2FauK54gQE.JPG)
If it is said that Castilian Spanish was born in an obscure corner of the Merindades region of Burgos, this area where we find ourselves now, the Sierra de…
![[ENG-SPN] Fulcanelli, Cioran, and a Church in Aranda / Fulcanelli, Cioran y una iglesia en Aranda](https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/juancar347/EqJ1uCb8kqewCGHx4snZ2ZZm3HPRnRUp7vN8w9X19zv3hzdFn8ySjJbj4E4hJbd3Vvo.JPG)
Perhaps that unfortunate son of pessimism, the Romanian thinker Emil Cioran, was right when he asserted, in one of his best-known books, "Syllogisms of…
![[ENG-SPN] Medieval Marketing and Timeless Beauty / Marketing medieval y belleza sin caducidad](https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/juancar347/EpJZcfYiRwYPRZ9fWtGkZkWD6tdXy1zTqWb1MKGqtrBs3nXKbpV8S4LL7EFnNw5ksyw.JPG)
Gothic architecture was practically on the verge of mirroring the sun's daily journey to the sunset when the Catholic Monarchs, with the invaluable…
![[ENG-SPN] The Bulls of Guisando: Where History Changed Forever / Toros de Guisando: donde la historia cambió para siempre](https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/juancar347/EogPmeGNgj1cZKaHpQFqjWaetzaWrFMbSw8t6ppprZyHDwLQhCg2Ztxxfzhkbvneayk.JPG)
Today, on a beautiful spring Sunday, the golden compass of adventure invites us on a brief journey through time, pointing us toward one of those enigmatic…
![[ENG-SPN] Pineda de la Sierra: School of Sanctuaries / Pineda de la Sierra: Escuela de Santuarios](https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/juancar347/EqQQ6ncUCDqMyQPGrBjqXvg6NuKvYBW4vGj1gRrmoxbHtMDTUdKHWzEE8vRd4Ckugik.JPG)
When speaking of trees, the first thing that came to mind for that contemplative Nobel Prize winner of German origin, Hermann Hesse, was to refer to them as…
![[ENG-SPN] Quintanilla: The Abyss of Time / Quintanilla: El Abismo del Tiempo](https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/juancar347/EqqwKmKmsSFnVmrEGf8rN3guhpV1ecainkKjXyHSTPasCQxiZwEP46u7XgEEQDjGAYv.JPG)
A short distance from Lara, so insignificant that the proud medieval counts kept it in their sights from the sturdy towers of a fortress that the wind…
![[ENG-SPN] Lara de los Infantes: When Castile Was Born Between Myth and Sword / Lara de los Infantes: cuando Castilla nació entre mito y espada](https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/juancar347/EoTcLCRjsosVmGiCfvTM26K2ZQCD28aVV1dkAstkn6nLpVAsFWUmfzYwSCr13MoQryn.JPG)
Lara is a surname that immediately connects us to a vanished world, but whose fragments, scattered like breadcrumbs across the most solitary corners of a…
![[ENG-SPN] Castile: Where History Dared to Dream / Castilla: donde la Historia se atrevió a soñar](https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/juancar347/EoH2EduQLcwCUyqNZvGCZTZAdbEDiagHLYCptqJeQ6fFR1W6pXpFvvHmBaV5kM5bfmP.JPG)
We temporarily leave behind the captivating lands of Guadalajara and, following the whims of our golden compass, begin a new logbook through the boundless…