ADSactly Photography: From The Salt Battlement
Greetings, friends of @ADSactly.
In 2014, due to my love of photography and my attraction to certain spaces, during a visit to the Araya Castle (Sucre State, Venezuela), I took a set of photos of this monument mistreated not only by the weather and the years, but also by negligence and ignorance. I have made a very tight selection of these photographs to show them around here, and not to abuse the space.
The Araya Castle, whose name is Real Fortaleza de Santiago de Arroyo de Araya, is located on the Araya Peninsula, and was built between 1623 and 1630. It is known that it was built by the Spaniards for the defense of the Salinas de Araya, and that it used blocks of mortar and materials of marine origin. For more quick and simple information you can visit this link; for more information, there you will find a wide bibliography.
I wanted to use, in the title of my modest post, the metaphor "almena de sal", created by the Cumanian writer Gustavo Luis Carrera for the original title of a story about Araya's life, his salt mines and his buried history (later he will take up that almost mythical story in his novel Reverse journey, which I highly recommend). I thus pay a well-deserved tribute to one of our most brilliant narrators, essayists and researchers of Venezuelan literature, today a little forgotten. I take some fragments and phrases from his story to accompany the photos.
(All photos are from Araya Castle (Sucre State, Venezuela).
He went towards the imposing fortress of yellowish stones as if he were sure to find something in those ruins from way back in time and anxiety.
[…] was an overwhelming eminence, moving for a man only on his feet.
I see the unknown castle, I feel the skin eaten up and strewn with madréporas of the stones […]
[…] I thought it was a lazy labyrinth of mysterious stories.
I continued up to the highest point of the blown up castle, and I stopped in vilo: I will never forget the blinding vastness of the sunny, blue, greenish, pale sea in the foam intervals.
(The photos were taken with my non-professional Kodak EasyShare CD82 camera)
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Written by @josemalavem
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(The photos were taken with my non-professional Kodak EasyShare CD82 camera)
Written by @josemalavem
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I'm a lover of Araya's. Araya is one of those towns that you love or hate from the first moment. I decided to love him. It is a corner of much sun, sand, aridity, but with all the shades of blue around you feel that the sky is close. The castle looks like a sleeping watchman, old, gnawed, breathing slowly and slowly. These photos are a sample of it. I liked them very much. Good homage. Greetings.
A beautiful comment, @nancybriti. Araya can cause mixed feelings, between the beauty of its natural spaces and the surrounding abandonment, for example. Your metaphor of the castle as a sleeping vigilante is very significant. Thank you for the valuation of the photos. Greetings.
Great post, @josemalavem
Those ruins have a curious history indeed. It's a pity the same spaniards decided to destroy it after they considered it wasn't useful or justfied anymore.
We have very little colonial architecture fully preserved, but they sure are full of stories.
These beaches are among the best in the country and despite the lack of touristic infrastructure, the place is worth visiting.
Grateful for your visit, @hlezama. The fortress, despite having been abandoned and destroyed by the weather and neglect, is still there impertérrita, as a silent witness of our history, looking beyond the seas.
Indeed, this area of the sea and its beaches are among the most beautiful and best in Venezuela.
What a wonderful place. I, too, have some ruins that are very close to my soul...and some I haven't been able to visit for quite a while.
And, great pictures! (I'm always jealous of others' pictures, I admit!)
That place is truly of a beauty crude and breathtaking. Its blue or silvery sea (depending on the time of day) open, its whipping breeze, its strong sun... A French geologist friend, who had visited different parts of the world, said that perhaps it was one of the points on Earth where the sun's rays fell more perpendicularly.
I have many photos of that fortress and its surroundings, as well as other ruins, which are also a motive for personal attraction.
Thank you for your appreciation of my photos, @ladyrebecca.
Beautiful
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Thank you for this publication for taking us to know such an interesting place and besides telling us your story, I admit that I knew little about the place. I imagine being there was a rewarding experience for you. The photographs are of excellent quality.Greetings
It was a very nice choice to use Gustavo Luis Carrera words as captions for your beautiful pictures. And a fortress to protect salt? An everyday commodity to us now was once a precious substance. I wonder if diamonds will someday be as easy to buy as salt is today.