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 From the photos and the map it may not seem we have done a lot but in fact we have gone up 300m. We passed a viewpoint, Mirador Valderrama.  Be the first person to review it.



I must admit I do rather like this uncompromising landscape.  Are we going to go subtle with softly fading features, no.  Nature went, this will be a valley.  We will put it so it is clear. Steep slopes here.  Flattish fields here. It feels very early Computer game generated - or maybe D&D where the DM wanted a valley away from the castle but couldn’t be bothered with what happened either side the route the party would tale out of town.  





That's it, so let's have a bit more on Frias.    I have found it frustrating that there is not a single, concise History.  It tends to get a bit vague.   Everyone starts of well, mentions it being the smallest city in Spain and then get distracted.  It does have a Jewish quarter.  Mentions of Jewish inhabitants during the 14th century can be found in the cartulary of Santa María de Vadillo, although there are references even from the previous century.  In 1574 in some documents refer to the converted “tax collector of Frías,. Juan Sanz de la Ussa worked as a tax collector for the Velasco family and founded the Visitación chapel. The Jewish quarter was located on calle Congreso and calle Virgen de la Candonga.





The main tower collapsed in 1830 killing 40 people.  It is claimed the collapse was related to an explosion caused by French Napoleonic troops.  This may be so,  BTW the French did send Ultra-Royalist forces into Spain in 1823 when the Liberals had been in power and there sort of thing was not to be tolerated.  







Tomorrow, more hills.


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