Historical story

• The castle of Peñiscola, the retreat of the old Templars.

  When in late May 1291, the Mamluks Muslims take the fortress of Acre, it was not only the end of the Christian presence in the vicinity of Jerusalem. But for the Knights Templar, those whose main mission was the protection of pilgrims who came to the holy city, it was the beginning of the end of an

• The Almohads and the Alcazar of Jerez de la Frontera.

  In the middle of the 12th century, the Almoravid empire that controls al-Andalus is practically dismembered. The emir Ali ibn Yusuf, faced with the push of the Christian kings of Aragon, of Castile, and supported by the crusaders of Pope Innocent II, decides to focus his efforts on North Africa. In

• How to enter history in 15 days, Cecilienhof Palace.

  The protagonist of our story is the Cecilienhof Palace . A place destined at the beginning of the 20th century to be the abode of the king of the German Empire, but which will spend most of its existence in ostracism, from which it only came out on those fateful fifteen days in the summer of 1945, i

• Miravet Castle, a Templar refuge on the banks of the Ebro River.

  On the right bank of the Ebro river and a few kilometers Before it delivers its mighty waters to the Mediterranean Sea, the imposing figure of the Miravet Templar Castle emerges. Its Templar name has its reason for being, since despite its Islamic origin, and the fact that it has been active for a l

• The Crac de los Caballeros, the most admirable and best preserved castle in the world.

  To which we can add more impregnable, or to At least that is what Thomas Edward Lawrance, the famous Lawrance of Arabia, thought one day in the summer of 1909, when he appeared in front of that enormous stone mass located in the mountains of southern present-day Syria. Lawrance of Arabia. British Ar

• Gaillard, the European castle inspired by the Crac des Caballeros.

  A few days ago in Walking through history we addressed a story about the Third Crusade, which ended with the confrontation of two of the most important knights of the Middle Ages, Saladin and Richard the Lionheart. The article that we present to you today could well be a continuation of that story.

• Castellum de Medina Sidonia, the Romans also built castles.

  We headed, after knowing Baelo Claudia, again to the province of Cádiz, specifically to the town of Medina Sidonia located in the interior of the province. There we will find the remains of one of the least known constructions of Roman culture, the castellum Romans, which could well have been the p

• The Visigoths and the long conquest of the rich Córdoba.

  The Visigoth kingdom was the first political entity of a certain shaft, in the Hispania that was orphaned after the fall of the Roman Empire. A people, the Visigoths, of a marked military character that had emerged from the cold lands of the north, and that, upon reaching the Iberian Peninsula, had

• Tiermes, the Roman city carved out of stone.

  In the south of the province of Soria we found one one of the most interesting Roman sites on the Iberian Peninsula. A Roman city that in its time of greatest splendor between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD. it could house more than 3,000 people. But the most striking thing about this city is its cons

• Flemish Beguinages, a way of approaching the Middle Ages in the 21st century.

  In 1998 the UNESCO World Heritage Committee decides to grant thirteen small neighborhoods, from twelve Belgian cities, the consideration of World Heritage. From that moment these small neighborhoods will become true medieval refuges in the XXI century. Many of them, such as the best known in the fam

• Image gallery of the medieval town of Frías (Burgos)

  Today we intend through images to let you know one of the most beautiful medieval towns in Spain. For this we have to go to the Burgos region of Las Merindades. In which we find, on a platform that completely dominates the course of the Ebro river, this municipality of just over 200 inhabitants, a f

• Bobastro, the story of the rebel who put Al-Andalus in check.

  We headed to the archaeological site of Bobastro in the north of the province of Malaga, specifically the municipality of Ardales, to learn about the history that led to the construction of the only Mozarabic church in all of Andalusia. The stone-cut church in question was just over 14 m. long, 9 m

• Mysterious towns of agotes, marginalization without response

  A few days ago in the course of my search on After watching a movie, the mysterious town of los agotes reappeared. . From that moment I started looking for information about them, I knew from previous readings their marginalization, but the question is obvious, why? The exhausted When talking about

• Cantavieja in images, a refuge city for the Templars and Carlists.

  Cantavieja, capital of Maestrazgo Teruel, is one of those small towns of depopulated Spain that do not leave us indifferent. Its simple location makes it majestic. Perched on a hill at 1,300 meters above sea level, it watches over the surrounding valleys, providing it with a natural protection that

• Liberation House Memorial

  In the aftermath of the Second World War on the European continent, the Battle of Berlin marks the great culmination in the fall of the Third Reich. For the Soviet Union, the fall, after four years of hard fighting, of the capital of Adolf Hitler, marked the end of a long and very hard war of surviv

• Magdeburg City Hall

  At the time of the coming to power of the Nazi party in 1933, the German Social Democratic Party or SPD ruled in the Magdeburg city council. The mayor was a young Ernst Reuter, who had not yet reached the quotas of popularity or power that he would achieve after the Second World War. On March 11,

• Magdeburg ancient synagogue

  The history of the Jewish community in Magdeburg dates back to the Middle Ages. Since the year 957 there are records of the presence of Jewish families in this city. The community must have grown and prospered already in that distant period, since there is evidence of the existence of a Jewish cemet

• Magdeburg Police Headquarters

  During the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany underwent significant urban development. Public institutions carried out large construction projects with the aim of showing the power of the imperial regime. Within this historical context, a new power building was built in Magdeburg in 1913. It was t

• Magdeburg Western Cemetery

  As in other large cities in the country, Magdeburg has a large cemetery where you can appreciate the horror of World War II and the trail of death left behind by the National Socialist regime. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Magdeburg Western Cemetery, or Westfriedhof, opened its doors. i

• Polte armament factory

  The Polte factory, originally called Jürgens &CO, was founded in 1873. It took the Polte name definitively in the midst of the First World War, in 1917. At first, the company was dedicated to the manufacture of water pumps, gas pumps and other metal elements. However, the Polte factory became infam