BlogHide Resteemsjuancar347 (72)in photography • 14 hours ago[ENG-SPN] Haunted places in Madrid: the Spanish Theater / Lugares embrujados de Madrid: el Teatro EspañolIt is possibly the full-length sculpture that the people of Madrid paid for in memory of what, in all probability, would have been Spain's most successful poet, Federico García Lorca -shot in 1936…juancar347 (72)in photography • yesterday[ENG-SPN] Streets of inspiration / Callejas de inspiraciónIf it were not, because in this case, it could be said that the habit certainly makes the monk, one could let oneself be carried away freely by the rapture of suggestion and think that one has gone…juancar347 (72)in photography • 3 days ago[ENG-SPN] Wandering about the houses of Ithaca / Divagando sobre las casas de ÍtacaWe can also see in Ithaca, as in that unknowable world, which the French engineer and ufologist, Jacques Valleé, baptized with the curious name of Magonia, an exceptional universe where to put into…juancar347 (72)in photography • 4 days ago[ENG-SPN] Carpe Diem of a sunrise / Carpe Diem de un amanecerLife continues its course, however, irremediably hooked, also, to that other, metaphorical and comparative Wheel of Fortune, indicated by the unalterable spokes that is, always, that dichotomy…juancar347 (72)in photography • 5 days ago[ENG-SPN] Stone cathedrals / Catedrales de piedraAn old story tells that, for centuries, it was circulating in the field of medieval mason guilds that worked throughout the length and breadth of Spain and especially, in the different branches and…juancar347 (72)in photography • 6 days ago[ENG-SPN] Harmony and transcendence / Armonía y trascendenciaDue to its harmony, beauty, elegance and perfection, it has always been considered the perfect example of an architectural style, the Romanesque, which developed throughout the length and breadth of…juancar347 (72)in photography • 7 days ago[ENG-SPN] Closed doors and exoduses / Puertas cerradas y éxodosOur grandparents say, and they are right, that towns suffer from loneliness. And they add, although perhaps they are exaggerating a little here, that there are so many souls sleeping the sleep of…juancar347 (72)in photography • 8 days ago[ENG-SPN] Enchanted places / Lugares encantadosThere are places, whose voluptuous idiosyncrasies make them become effective scenarios, capable of attracting the spirit and leading it towards the unfathomable abysses of the unusual, in whose…juancar347 (72)in photography • 9 days ago[ENG-SPN] Clouds of Madrid / Nubes de MadridYou hardly ever see them at fairs anymore, except on rare but honorable occasions, those street stalls that, for a more or less affordable price, offered you the opportunity to enjoy a few moments…juancar347 (72)in photography • 10 days ago[ENG-SPN] Of the beauty of the moments / De la belleza de los momentosI fully agree with that great master who was Hermann Hesse, when he asserted that beauty truly reveals itself to us in those occasional states of contemplative innocence, in which we aspire to…juancar347 (72)in photography • 11 days ago[ENG-SPN] A guardian on the Way: the old hermitage of Muriel / Un guardián en el Camino: la vieja ermita de MurielAway from the small town of Muriel, but strategically located at the foot of that dusty and often muddy path that goes into a legendary environment, where the wind still carries the frightening war…juancar347 (72)in photography • 12 days ago[ENG-SPN] In a place called Almazán / En un lugar llamado AlmazánMaybe, as Cioran said with obvious bitterness, I too get asthma from reality, to the point that there are times when, rebelling with irrepressible satisfaction against that refuge for cowards that…juancar347 (72)in photography • 13 days ago[ENG-SPN] Franciscan ruins on a legendary path / Ruinas franciscanas en un camino de leyendaIt is true that, unfortunately, one can hardly admire, in all its splendor, this set of precious sacred geometry, which for centuries, could have been, without a doubt, one of the most brilliant…juancar347 (72)in photography • 14 days ago[ENG-SPN] Soria and the snows of yesteryear / Soria y las nieves de antañoOne of my most exciting visions of this charming Castilian city, sheltered by the protection provided by steep mountains such as Saint Anne and The Souls, is that, having opened that metaphorical…juancar347 (72)in photography • 15 days ago[ENG-SPN] Lessons from the Way of the Stars / Lecciones del Camino de las EstrellasOne of the most beautiful lessons that this genuine route of introspection and reunion, which is, in short, the pilgrimage route or Way of the Stars to Santiago de Compostela, often offers us is…juancar347 (72)in photography • 16 days ago[ENG-SPN] Penelope's song / La canción de PenélopeIt is not the warm waters of the sea that bathes the golden coast of Ithaca that melt into pristine foam covering the feet of the goddess Penelope with delicate tinsel of fragrant saltpeter, but a…juancar347 (72)in photography • 17 days ago[ENG-SPN] The time Machine / La máquina del tiempoI believe that there is no better or more perfect time machine than our own memories, in the same way, that there is no reality more proper and by default, objective, than that architecture of…juancar347 (72)in photography • 18 days ago[ENG-SPN] That Madrid of the taverns / Aquel Madrid de las tabernasIf there is something that characterizes that old, traditional, legendary Madrid and lover of good writing, precisely that which is the culmination of the best Literature of an entire era and that…juancar347 (72)in photography • 19 days ago[ENG-SPN] Badly wounded heritage / Patrimonio malheridoIn that part of Celtiberia in Soria, close to places that left their mark on that comparative Iberian Odyssey that is the exile and the voyages of the Cid Campeador and looking with a certain…juancar347 (72)in photography • 20 days ago[ENG-SPN] Return to Magical Soria: Conquezuela / Retorno a la Soria Mágica: ConquezuelaThe year has just begun and it is impossible not to shout out in favour of adventure and to take up the baton, which, at the time, was launched by a writer of unorthodox customs and accurate…