«In Termantia, the praetor Piso tried to collect taxes violently from the Arevaci, which led to his death at their hands. A man was arrested and tortured for information but refused, stating that the crime was collective. He said: "Here still exists the Ancient Spain"» Tacitus

Residents of the town of La Guardia (Toledo) explaining the story of the Holy Child, a Christian boy who, according to tradition, was ritually murdered by a group of Jews in the late 15th century. The child was declared a saint and martyr by the Catholic Church, and his cult continues to be celebrated every September 25th.

Maello, Ávila.

A family of wild boars in Málaga.

Iberian climate:

In architecture, more is more

In 1221, King Ferdinand III decided Burgos’ existing 11th-century cathedral was too small. He ordered it entirely demolished to build this:

Don Quixote is alive and now larping as an Ukrainian soldier.

The most powerful man of XVI century Europe picked Extremadura as his final place.

EXPÓSITO, from Latin expositus (“set outside”), is one of Spain’s most common surnames. It comes from an administrative act, not a family line. From the sixteenth century, foundling homes received infants through the TORNO, a rotating cylinder in the outer wall, used mainly at night. A mother placed the child inside, rang a bell, and a nun turned the wheel without either seeing the other. The surname was given at intake and passed to descendants (if the child survived. Most did not.) By the nineteenth century, Spanish foundling homes admitted about 20,000 children a year. The system lasted, in modified form, into the early 1970s.

There’s a huge debate on Spanish Twitter over this video: two ways of making the famous TORTILLA DE PATATAS, Spanish omelette. Well done or barely set. Brick or molten. The historic, everyday tortilla was probably closer to the one in the video: thick, compact, fully cooked. The kind you could wrap, carry, and eat the next day. I still think the rare, almost liquid style (also usually called Betanzos style) is far, far better. Creamy, trembling, all egg and potato. Not a dense brick.

Soria’s Romanesque is amazing.

Interesting

Devotion. 📷: @Guillejp_

Extraordinary procession of the Cristo Negro in Cáceres, celebrating the brotherhood’s 40th refounding anniversary with origins in 1490. Breathtaking.

La Rioja’s vines.

Sevilla.

Peñaflor Palace. Écija, Sevilla.

Bullfighting is just beautiful