The royal road to Malaga

 


We are heading way out of town.  We are going up 302m.  We are going down 146m.  At our height we are 872m above the level sea. That makes us equal to Moel Siabod.  Moel Siabod is the eighth highest peak in Wales and near Dolwyddelan, one of my favourite castles in Wales.



A Candlemas Bun awaits us, between September 2018 and June 2021.


We are leaving the tarmac and heading down the Camino Real de Carlos Tercero. This has no reviews on Google.  Here is a nice video of it. https://www.canalsur.es/television/programas/destino-andalucia/noticia/2103870.html   Apparently Charles III has a road made, leaving Malaga and heading for Villanueva, Antequera and Madrid.



Well that’s it.  As we are talking Charles II, let’s talk Charles III.  Charles was born in 1716, he was the fourth child of Philip V.  Bit of back History. Phil-5, as the kids called him, was the French candidate for the Spanish throne in 1700.  After 1714 Phil held the throne till 1724. He stood down in January 1724, his son by his first marriage, Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy, Louis I took the throne for seven months - when he died.  Phil came back till 1746, when he died and his next son Ferdinand VI took over till 1759. Then comes Charles III, son of his second marriage, Elisabeth Farnese.


Charles III was reasonably successful, as Spanish monarchs go.  He did stuff. He reorganised  the colonial administration, stopped American-born Spaniards from high office, eliminated many of the clergy’s privileges and did stuff to reform the army and navy.


Charles was one of the largest slave owners in the Spanish Empire, being 1500 in Iberia and 18,500 in the colonies.  It is suggested his purchase of slaves encouraged the nobility and in the 1780s 4% of Madrid’s population was enslaved people.



Charles died in 1788, only just missing the fun of the French Revolution.













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