Watercolors of Castilla: Bocigas de Perales
The landscape of old Castilla, even excessively arid at times, also offers a singularly supernatural attraction, where it is not man, but erosion that lets the imagination fly to create works of singular beauty.
This would be the case, for example, of the mysterious environment on which a little-known town of the Judicial Party of Burgo de Osma is based, in the nuclear and Celtiberian Soria.
Bordering on the communities of Burgos and Segovia, Bocigas de Perales is a town that, seen as a whole, seems to be one of the sets taken from Sergio Leone's films, in which Clint Eastwood dedicated himself, becoming the legend of the cowboy, loner and vigilante, with unforgettable movies like Death had a price.
Centuries of erosion, whose echo also carries a long history, have made the environment of Bocigas de Perales, a fantastic world that does not detract from, but rather increases, popular buildings, endowed with genuine charm.
Of its importance in the Middle Ages, its Romanesque church, dedicated to the figure of Saint Peter the Apostle, offers worthy testimony, whose design and sculpture show the familiar traces of the stonemasons who made the oldest Romanesque in Soria famous, located in the neighboring and most important town of San Esteban de Gormaz.
Nestled in caves carved into the slope of a landscape that recalls, at the same time, Max Ernst's eccentric abstract watercolors, with their anecdotal pareidolias, the cellars keep, in the fresh belly of their womb, the richness of some wines, whose name Origin is synonymous with quality throughout the world: Ribera del Duero.
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Hola amigo juancar, hermosas ruinas, haces un buen registro de esas antiguas construcciones y como siempre el cielo de Castilla luce límpido y diáfano ante nuestros ojos, haciendo un bonito contraste de colores con ese paisaje erosionado, abrazos.
Bueno, en realidad no es un pueblo ruinoso, si bien algún edificio puede padecer, como se muestra en la foto, lo que en la canción aquélla en la que a uno le llamaban abandonado porque no limpiaba los ejes de su carreta. Es un paisaje realmente curioso, donde la erosión ha jugado y continúa jugando un papel relevante para moldear el entorno a su capricho. Uno de esos pintorescos pueblecitos castellano-leoneses, cuya soledad y aridez contrasta notablemente con otros lugares de la misma comunidad. Los cielos, como los campos en Castilla y tú bien lo sabes, amigo @doctorlibro, son siempre infinitos. Un abrazo
Es bueno saberlo, aunque sé que los campos de Castilla sufren por el abandono y la despoblación, muchos de sus pequeños pueblos siguen vivos a pesar de todo, y siempre hay sorpresas en ellos, además de una belleza única y poco convencional. Esa canción que mencionas es una maravilla, la recuerdo cantada por Chavela Vargas, abrazos.