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La Cerca, a chronicle of a walking corpse.

The abandoned City of La Cerca (Burgos), which was formerly the Palace of the Iron-Salinas, and Strong House even before the terrible strain of Salazar.

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At times this blog has been criticized for repeatedly complaining about bans taking pictures, when denouncing serious problems affecting the property. Well, for those "purists" go this macabre entry. Is there enough here "blood and romance bait" to satisfy his instincts protest?
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Fence in Merindad Losa (Burgos), today is a humble hamlet, 7 km from Medina de Pomar, and has 17 inhabitants (census 2007). The place survives as he can, with some tourism and the passage of hunters. However, during the Middle Ages, was a town of some importance. Here's Salazar had fortified house, where he was born Lope García de Salazar, "Iron Arm" (1264-1334). Terrible in battle, they used the singular cruelty in the gang war between "Oñacino" and "Mr. Rogers, of the Basque Country, was no less terrible in love, as he had 118 and 2 legitimate bastards. Exploits recounted by his namesake grandson, nicknamed "El Sabio" (1399-1476), in 25 volumes of the "Bienandanzas and fortunes of Mr. factional Onacinos Lope García de Salazar" . On the manor house, come down, got up in the XVII century, the Palace of the Iron-Salinas, turned into City Hall by 1955, and today total abandonment.
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This transfer, of the powerful and rebellious feudal lords, negatively affected the magnificent Romanesque N ª S ª de la Asunción (second half of twelfth century), on which there were numerous additions and reconstructions, with the noble intention aggrandizement, but at present disfigure it, to endanger structure. If you can give away solid impression, despite the damage, just a bit closer to see that we are facing "a walking corpse."
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speaking, only surviving Romanesque elements in his battered apse and presbytery. Everything else, nave, vestry, tower, and the tremendous heightening apse, are works of XV to XVII. What was lost here a primary temple, in symbolic art of the region is significant in that it is saved low. But for how long? The clock is ticking, and does so with the minutes against the integrity of this gem.
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Worst of all is that "over-apse, a kind of garret or attic, useless structure that weighs like a mountain on an apse that was not built to withstand the dead weight. Is the fossil of the great temple that was intended to raise late, but its high nave was discontinued. Luckily, it would have ended up knocking the shell apse and sculptures.
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And that insidious mass of stone, which goes over the medieval apse, is the sword of Damocles that one day, not far away, deprive us of this treasure of Romanesque symbolism. Its weight is opening the original walls, the steep bulge is clearly visible, both internally and externally.
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at the junction between the panels and pilasters apse, is clearly seen as the pressure is separating the blocks, opens as if it were a children's puzzle, the dislocated and creating separate spaces for entering rain water and frost. Of course, the hooks have been placed on a metal plate "to protect them from humidity" ...
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Where was the cornice and the dogs that held, are blocks with weep holes in any structure late that in uncertain times, it sank. The heavy mass added, disturbing cracks form, pushing a wall whose foundations were not designed to sustain the extra load.
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The windows were boarded up in a sloppy, to give greater strength to the whole, which has only served to delay the persistent crash, not avoid it.
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also many cruel mutilation and recomposition, with items that have been removed from its original location and relocated, or parts "erased" a chisel and hammer.
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cracks and gaps affecting the full thickness of the wall, as seen within the central apse window, whose archivolts also departed.
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The shell of the apse shows a strange Maiestas Domini with Tetramorph all badly repainted in red and black. It appears that such figures were not made for this place, exotic place. Have they been taken from another site, an eardrum, or a frieze, the original building? You may never be able to study them, two cracks, badly patched with cement, threaten throw down the set.
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To Whom It May Concern: A rough and amazacotado cairn as a "buttress" in front of the apse, with the sacristy attached to the north, have so far prevented the final collapse of the temple. Although the south side, free of attached buildings, represents the weakest point by which everything can fall apart. The good people of the place, as we told the nice lady who had the key, are tired of preaching in all deserts official call that do not open doors and cry in the ears that close. The civil and religious authorities, or are deaf or pass the ball, waiting for the final ruin them free to continue listening these troublesome neighbors.
Do something now, but ya, ya. This treasure can not disappear, as has consented to go away so many others, decided an emergency operation for today. Failure to do so, is brought to pillory and stocks, until the Supreme Judge of the Pantocrator, that who you claim to worship, I call your presence for a trial more severe than ours.
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Health and fraternity.