BBC: “In Aragon, the villages time forgot”

http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20110624-aragon-the-villages-time-forgot

The ancient kingdom of Aragón — together with that of Castile — gave power and prestige to the Christian Reconquista, forcefully confirming Spain’s Christian identity in the late 15th Century. The town of Sos del Rey Católico, in Aragón’s northwest, set the stage for this stirring tale in 1452, as the birthplace of Fernando II of Aragón, the male half of one of history’s most famous double acts. Four decades after his birth, the Spanish Monarchs – Fernando II of Aragón and Isabel I of Castile – brought an end to seven centuries of Muslim rule on the Iberian Peninsula. (…)

Vía: http://twitter.com/juan_rey

(Y esta foto del Pilar desde la azotea del Museo Pablo Serrano: http://yfrog.com/z/kkm3ouj)

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