Calatañazor is the most medieval town of this medieval province. Miraculously? We do not know, but the fact is that it has been preserved. Quarter doors with old ironwork, roofs crowned by conical chimneys covered with split tiles, cobblestone pavement ... From the castle of Calatañazor, at the end of the main street, paved, with arcades, you can contemplate the "Valley of the Blood" " Presumably, the name is due to the color of the waters of the river when the sun, already hiding, reflects them. But the popular imagination suggests something else: the great battle that Christians and Moors waged, at the beginning of the eleventh century, commanded by Almanzor; the blood would soak the valley, and already, forever, would be linked to the legend, as the adage "in Calatañazor lost Almanzor the atambor".
Calatañazor is the most medieval town of this medieval province. Miraculously? We do not know, but the fact is that it has been preserved. Quarter doors with old ironwork, roofs crowned by conical chimneys covered with split tiles, cobblestone pavement ... From the castle of Calatañazor, at the end of the main street, paved, with arcades, you can contemplate the "Valley of the Blood" " Presumably, the name is due to the color of the waters of the river when the sun, already hiding, reflects them. But the popular imagination suggests something else: the great battle that Christians and Moors waged, at the beginning of the eleventh century, commanded by Almanzor; the blood would soak the valley, and already, forever, would be linked to the legend, as the adage "in Calatañazor lost Almanzor the atambor".
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