Church of San Martin. Quintanilla de la Berzosa

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View of the Temple and necropolis rock

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González de Fauve includes, in his study of the monastery of Aguilar de Campo, several news documentaries in which (from 1175 to 1225 approximately) is the monastery acquired estates certain individuals in the Vérez Quintanilla. Among the characters who sign one of these documents (particularly that of 1195) will appear Sunday Abbad de Quintanilla, and after another cleric and a deacon. 

. floor of the building. © Fundación Santa María la Real - CER

The building's architectural features as the main structure has a rectangular box consisting muraria navedividida one in two sections of unequal length and rectangular single head. Belfry and also has access to her body attached to its northern side, in the southern sacristy, attached to the head-external ossuary on the south side, between the first and second section of the nave and north porch attached to the supported by a right foot shoe on wooden parapet. Outwardly this internal partitioning is not noticeable because it has a very linear longitudinal development, with nave and at the same height. All this, with the exception of the porch, worked with a great yellow ashlar sandstone grain and fine grain. 

Inside-completely whitewash with cutting of blocks in blue and yellow line socket to observe certain aspects which alone indicate that we have a temple that has been, throughout its long history, transformations. In this regard indicate that at deck level there are several solutions: from the use of the starry vault in the second bay of the nave and apse to the pointed barrel vault in the stretch of the feet, through the simple cover timber in the sacristy, in this case with plaster-and atrium. The current boot cover reused on the wall of an earlier one. 

The last witness of the constructive remodeling is found in the brackets. On the outside corner buttresses the existence of the header (just like in San Cebrian Muda) and sacristy, others of different profiles and thicknesses, dot the walls of the nave. Inside are pilasters, brackets, angles, and a half columns attached to the arch height of the first stage in order to counteract the pressures of covering the first section of the ship. 

Outside, on the western gable is cut out the silhouette of the gable articulated in two trim levels based simply nacelle. The double bottom and the top pointed vain with a single span and crowned pinion pointed nacelle. With the exception of the steeple and cover the rest of the openings or open windows in the building late bills have different types (ogee arches, arrow slits, rectangular, etc). 

We are thus faced with a virtually rebuilt building in which the remains of an early Romanesque structure are almost accidental. Traces of the original Romanesque building from the late twelfth or early thirteenth appear only in the walls of the section of the foot of the nave, belfry, north wall and the interior of the apse where they seem to reuse some blocks. Both renovated sacristy as the court already belong to other phases much later made from the eighteenth century to the present day. The building underwent an overhaul between the XIV and XVII, a special patent renewal in the header and the second installment of the ship. 

In the words of García Guinea, the church of San Martín de Quintanilla of a monument Berzosa is interesting because it tangibly see the impact of the constructive idea with new inventive Romanesque Gothic, very slowly and overcoming traditional forces, will replace the old structure of the eleventh and twelfth centuries ....

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Revilla de Pomar. Cantohito Menhir

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Singing Menhir Hito.

The roads where the plateau is close, we return to resume the path of standing stones and started some time ago. In Valdeolea menhirs, we were easily seen with a alignment by proximity.

Archaeologists Castellanos, Miguel Angel Moreno, and Germain put us Delibes on the trail of a greater dimension in this alignment. And indeed, if we use the information available at www.megalitos.es, conducted by the former, we see the continuation of this trace to the province of Burgos.

Alignment of menhirs

The meeting with the Landmark Singing spectacular monument was completely accidental.Staying at the near-Casa Revilla de Pomar Florencio. In a lively conversation after dinner with the owners of the hotel, came to the fore the issue of menhir. Although it was near midnight, the next day I get up early for other matters, so I decided to visit him at the time. - The header photo is from that visit-
This picture tries to reflect the feeling to meet the huge rock, is a kind of defiance amid the moor iergue watching impassively as the stars revolve around it from its more than 3 meters in height. Immediately we wonder about its meaning, after all is a symbol, and our curiosity drives us to try to decipher it. For this we turn to the little information we have. Before referred to the article and Moreno Gallo and Delibes de Castro. It presents the results of the excavation of a site near Landmark Canto similar characteristics. In this place "The cost of the mill", we find the remains of a menhir-like hand. In this place was built a burial mound that gives us additional information.

The slope of the mill. Before excavation.

(Moreno Gallo, Delibes de Castro 2006)

It's amazing how they put these people care for thousands of years that his work will endure.Digging into the base has discovered the foundation of the monument. This is a recess cut into the limestone soil of the moor for good vertical lift of rock.

Foundations of Menhir. Cuesta del Molino.

(Moreno Gallo, Delibes de Castro 2006)

The dating of the menhirs is an uncomfortable task for archaeologists, as it simply rocks that rise above the ground. If additional elements are not the dating is uncertain.

In this case,-The-Mill hill, in the excavation of the mound were found human remains and charred fragments at the base of the menhir. With the C14 dating of these remains, as well as ceramic fragments, one can deduce an age of 4000 years for the monument.

Undoubtedly these stones visible at a great distance were not randomly located, marked an important place for the builders. I think we can see two ways, either the place has a harmony of telluric forces, which for those people in close contact with nature were evident and so marked and used to deposit their dead. Or wanted to give the place a special significance, such as a territorial marker, lifting their stone symbols, and buried there at the most relevant to your clan. Everyone thinks what they like, I say.

Regardless of objective considerations, the place is captivating, and the night visit alone an unsettling experience.

Asador Gasolina. Cervera de Pisuerga

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We went for a mountain road towards Palencia capital and calling fuimso grills, looking where we give lamb and pork . In the end what the pig might not be in any of the phones we had gotten, so I decided to find somewhere to eat in Cervera del Pisuerga . On the way stop at the viewpoint of high Piedrasluengas port from which you see a valley full of oaks.

Cervera we ended up in one of the grills which had telephoned that he had a somewhat unfortunate name, Gas Grill xD. The food was acojonante. In next few peppers stuffed with mushrooms and Buyo and I shared second quarter of lamb DO Castilla León , Bea a beef entrecote sauce with mushrooms and some lamb chops Rosa. Needless to say, the next was very very rich, but the lamb was sublime. The best I have ever melted in the mouth and the skin was crispy and did as layers.