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¿La maldición de los Infantes de Lara...?

This is all that remains of the Castle of the Counts of Lara, where he was born the "liberator" of Castile, Fernán González.
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"So many excellent Dukes, Marquises, and Counts
many men

and as we saw so powerful
di, death, what DO Los hide
and converted?
(Jorge Manrique, Verses on the Death of His Father , 1476).
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In the castle of Lara Picon, built in 902, was born "the Good Earl" Fernán González (910-970), champion of independence separatism Castilian, before Castilla was champion of the English imperial unity. So, when Castilla got his "fair and deserved" independence, the kingdom of Asturias and Leon (between 932 and 1035), embarked on a holy crusade to wrest the "unfair and unwarranted" freedom to the other realms. But these are matters of 'high politics', that our simple minds can not understand, so I'll leave it be, because "doctors have the Church ... and so is the patient. "
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Temple of Our Lady of the Nativity, Lara de los Infantes (Burgos), south facade.
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The County and Alfoz de Lara (Burgos), of some importance during the Roman and Visigoth, was centered in the place of the same name, now called Lara de los Infantes in honor of the legendary Seven Infantes which, according to legend, were buried in the parish church, where he kept up the movement of their heads, to Salas de los Infantes, and their bodies to the Monasterio de Suso (La Rioja).
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South facade, first portico, blinded, who rose on the new walls in the eighteenth century, the wall behind Gothic nave, elevated in the XIII century Romanesque-XIV above.
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After a period of aristocratic power, the place was given to the city of Burgos, in 1255 by Alfonso X. For the XVI century castle and church, clearly threatened ruin, and the eighteenth century the fortress was so bad that the planter Pedro de Castañeda, after examining the building in 1752, concluded his report with a disturbing question: "Is it worthwhile to spend considerable money in a place where no one lives?" .
The current politicians seem to have taken up the question of the bed, for use in the temple, now that the castle has disappeared by his neglect: "Is it worth it to spend many euros in the temple of a people who no longer lives anyone? .
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west facade superimposed on the original in the eighteenth century. The lower courses, together with the cover, under the portico which closed its side. A crack in its northern corner, threatens the wall.
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The origin of the temple, seems to be in a monastery Visigoths. Then the economic power and political power, led to all take turns "lay hands" on this Romanesque church, the eleventh century, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque ... It seems that the original building was a single nave and apse, which was extended early twelfth century with two smaller vessels, of apses embedded in the wall. In the middle of XII, framed porch was added in the south and west sides, and at the end of that century a tower in the southeast, whose top is the XVII century. Inside, the house has s.XVI starry vault and the dome on scallops cruise XVII century. In the s. XVIII was attached the sacristy, and raised the perimeter walls of the portico.
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Home western portico, behind the main entrance of the temple.
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Home west of the temple, twelfth century, with rich capitals of style "Silos."
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For Of course, the temple has been declared "Cultural Property" (25/06/1982). And we know what kind of wet paper is that pompous title ...
The west door, early twelfth century, lies the magnificent capitals aimed archivolts on School Silos, where the predominant bestiary scenes on sacred mythology. All of it is "conveniently" whitewashed, "to look more beautiful." Thick layers of lime that climatic factors are "stripping" slowly, to reveal part of the ancient polychrome ... Liming covering, with its "singular beauty", the entire interior, including the evocative capitals primitive not to mention repainting the colorful rainbow.
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The original portico, crushed under the walls of the eighteenth century, is brutally attacked. Their bows were blind, some have lost columns and capitals ...
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The south door, access to the portico, has been halved and blinded. The missing part was destroyed in the eighteenth century, along with the rest of the gallery of this sector, adding a chapel.
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Thanks to computers we have rebuilt partially as it should be the entrance to the gallery.
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Some arches of the gallery, about being blinded to place a rude latticed window, lost their columns and capitals.
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Other arches are blinded by the process of pressing them to destroy other stones taken from Roman times, and stands a carved stone, as that seems shot Arquillo crenellated span.
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Inside the gallery, the beams can be seen that underpin the high walls, lacking roof, and again the "rubble" that blind arches.
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to whom it may concern Stop consider this question is so fond: "Is it worth it to spend many euros in the house of a village where no one lives?" . Because it does in this town someone lives, 26 people registered, human beings entitled to respect. And many visitors spend here, also human, with the same right to respect. Because
disrespect, is to keep this church to the brink of ruin, like an abandoned warehouse to which blinds their openings to prevent access to the "squatters." Restore
and, where possible and that is worthy of this temple, that his statement of "cultural property" is something useful that the benefit of art lovers, history, and especially those who love their soil.
Otherwise, go to pillory and stocks, on Picon de Lara, so that the spirits of the Siete Infantes tormented her days and nights to think again.
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Health and fraternity.