The Road from Santiago

  After mature consideration we may be well advised to turn back and go down a track to get to our goal as it will take seven minutes less.  Let’s do that. We aren’t really going to pass much so lets have more words. Amigovio/a  -  Have you ever been in a relationship that’s not actually a relationship? You don’t really know what to call it or where you stand with this person—some call it “the talking phase,” a “situationship,” etc.   Madrugar - to wake up at sunrise / to get up very early. The Ermita de Sant Marc stands proud and cared for.   Laura regrets its was ‘ Spectacular to see, it's a shame you can't visit the inside ’  xabyjordi reckons ‘ Known as the “Cathedral of the Mountains” for its size and monumental character. It was a key point on ancient roads between Teruel and Morella. For years it hosted important trade fairs (April 25th and June 24th). Its origins date back to between the 15th and 16th centuries, although there are even earlier ...

  We are heading for Tronchon. It is so narrow a hill top village that streetview don’t go down into its depths.  We are going to go through this place in all the depth that the sole place on our route deserves. The GSH is, as always,  our friend.  TRONCHON:  Situated on the slope or foothills of a fairly high mountain on the southwest side; the climate is cold and the most common illnesses are catarrhal. It consists of about 200 houses , including the town hall, an elementary primary school attended by 60 children; a hospital for the relief of the sick poor with very meager income; two springs with good watering troughs of abundant and excellent water, from which the residents obtain their water; parish church situated in the Plaza de la Constitución to the west of the village, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, served by a priest of first promotion and by ordinary competition and provision, also having 10 beneficed clergy; The church is of the Doric order, bu...

  We are going on a trip through August 2009. Streetview came here with a road improved but in need of a make over. It has a few new crash barriers. There will be sheep. Ok, 6th November. What is happening in Spain.   1479:  Junana I aka Joan the Mad, is born. She will be Queen of Castile from 1504 till 1555. Some claim she wasn’t mad but her dad and son found it useful to say she was so they could rule. 1617 : The Peace of Madrid is signed, ending the Gradisca War between the Republic of Venice and the Habsburg Empire . 1661: Charles the inbred, sorry, second, was born in 1661. By the time of his birth the Habsburgs had loved each other so much that had it been any other family and brother and sister had got up close and personal then their child would have been less inbred. 1936: Fran cisc o L argo Caballero moved the government to the city of Vale ncia , and created the Madrid Defense Board for the defense of the capital .   1998:  The Government send...

  It is a bit of the day. We will go into the very well appointed village of Villarluengo and then just wander round the geography. Let us straight ways to the GSH.  VILLARLUENGO:  Situated on rocky terrain on a strong, steep rock cut perpendicularly from east to south, at the foot of which passes a river coming from the Benatanduz ravine: the climate is not very cold and suffers from pneumonia. It has 200 houses of medium construction, among them the town hall, without any kind of comfort; there is a small and miserable hospital without income; a granary with 224 fanegas of wheat; a primary school attended by 90 boys and a secondary school attended by 24 girls; parish church (The Assumption of Our Lady), served by a priest and 6 beneficed clergy; At the edge of the village, there is a Franciscan convent and two hermitages, San Bartolomé and San Cristóbal, and another within the district where Mass is celebrated, which is attended by the inhabitants of the farmhouses. ...