Friday, May 10, 2013
Praia de Vale do Lobo
Praia de Vale do Lobo (lien, enlace)
click on the link above or below to see more pictures
Praia de Vale do Lobo is
one of the main 3 beaches that are in the Golden Triangle with and
Praia do Garrão and Quinta do Lago- Algarve -
Praia de Vale do Lobo (lien, enlace, link)
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Praia da Quinta do Lago
Yesterday walking down the
beach of Quinta do Lago. Beautiful long beach, integrated to the
natural park of Ria Famosa, you can't even see the end of it. From a
photographer point of view, well... very little that catch your eye,
finally after kilometers I found this completely buried barrier,
which is there to protect the dunes, which are of course prohibited
to the walker. See the 2 pictures below. That was all.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Trujillo linked to the discovery of America
Trujillo (link, lien, enlace)
Trujillo,
city of 9860 inhabitants
located between the
bottoms of the Tojo and Guadiana rivers, contains an important group
of churches, castles and manor houses that are centered
around the Plaza Mayor square and which are declared Property of
Cultural Interest. Since
the 16th century it was the cradle of illustrious characters linked
to the discovery of America. Trujillo is
within the Route of the Conquistadors, which includes other towns
in Extremadura like Medellín, Villanueva de la Serena or Jerez de
los Caballeros.
We
arrived in Trujillo just the weekend of their festival cheeses,
meaning it was crowded and the beautiful plaza was impossible to
photograph. On the other hand we were
delighted to taste so many different cheeses accompanied and drink local wines with. Sorry
that my pics can't transmit the smell
;)
Enjoy
Jabugo
Where the best cured ham is produced (lien, enlace, link)
In
our way back from Portugal we decided not
to take the highway but
instead going through the beautiful Aracena
Mountains leading to the
village of Jabugo famous for its renowned
cured ham, the best in the world. Don't thing about Jabugo as a big
town, the population is about of 2,475 inhabitants located
in the province of Huelva.
It
is also known as
the jamón ibérico, produced from black
Iberian pigs, or cross-bred pigs as long as
they are at least 75% ibérico, also know under the name of Pata
Negra.
Different
qualities exist, the finest is called jamón ibérico de bellota
(acorn). This ham is from free-range pigs that roam oak forests
(called dehesas) along the border between Spain and Portugal, and eat
only acorns during this last period.
One
more detail, the entire village smells ham! Clik on the link to get
an idea of what the village looks like.
Enjoy
Where the best cured ham is produced (lien, enlace, link)
Saturday, May 4, 2013
A walk around Merida a Roman town
Merida a Roman city (lien, enlace, link)
The
town was founded in 25 BC, with the name of Emerita Augusta (meaning
the veterans – discharged soldiers – of the army of Augustus, who
founded the city; the name Mérida is an evolution of this) by order
of Emperor Augustus, to protect a pass and a bridge over the Guadiana
river.
For
more info on Merida I invite you to consult wikipedia
Enjoy the walk.
Enjoy the walk.
Merida a Roman city (lien, enlace, link)
Medellín from Rome to the Conquistadores
Medellin a town full of history (lien, enlace, link)
Medellín is a village in
the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, full of history.
The city was named after
the Roman general Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, it was originally called Metellinum.
Today it has a population
of 2,337 (2009) and an area of 65 km².
Interesting fact: The
second largest city in Colombia, Medellín, was named so in honour of
this small village as well as another city in Mexico and two in
Argentina!
The castle replaced a
10th-century fortress which was destroyed in the 14th century by
Pedro I the Cruel and rebuilt by the Infante Sancho of Castile. It
has a double walled perimeter with many round turrets and reinforcing
towers. Inside, the castle preserves a 12th-century underground
reservoir. The castle was extended in the 15th and 16th centuries.
One more word,
Medellín is the native town of Hernán
Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca;
1485 – December 2, 1547. He was
a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of
the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under
the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés
was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first
phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
For more information
please visit those websites:
Medellin a town full of history (lien, enlace, link)
a stork nesting 3 babies
A stork nesting 3 babies (lien, enlace, link)
I've been patiently
playing during good 2 hours with
a stork nesting 3 babies in the beautiful Roman town of Merida, in
the province of Extremadura. Unfortunately
my 70-200 F4 mm with the addition of my 1.4x giving me total of 280mm
wasn't enough to frame full frame.
The following photographs are the results of some strong resizing,
half of my 20 megapixels.
Anyway enjoy.
A stork nesting 3 babies (lien, enlace, link)
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