What does this mean? It is very much the same but more attractive. It has the usual medieval market in Santillana del Mar but with very interesting performances of music, dance, comedy and theater. It really looks great. According to the city council: Angel Rodriguez has maintained that “the framework of Santillana del Mar is a unique setting to recreate a journey into the past, with  Romans and Arabs, where falconry displays, druids, belly dancers, stilt walkers and warriors are mixed to return to life historical characters from the past that one day lived in the Villa. ” So enjoy!!  Its full of surprises!

This was stated today the Minister of Culture, Tourism and Sport of the regional executive, Francisco Javier López Marcano, who was in favor of “reconcile” the “obligation” assumed “conservation” and “preservation” of Altamira cave paintings and with the “enjoyment” of them by “the more people the better.”

The advisor, who said he was “sure” that other institutions think like him, stated that the visitation must be limited to the preservation of the cavity.

“With that is open, we are satisfied,” said Lopez Marcano, to influence, “the message is closed Altamira” is “negative and devastating” from the tourism perspective. Pointed out here that is not the same view a copy of a work-in-Neocave allusion to the original. Hence, the original opening of the cave would be a “fortress” and an “attractive” for tourism in the region.

Regarding the report of the CSIC, the Minister confirmed that the document is already completed and in possession of the Ministry of Culture to decide, along with the other members of the Board of Altamira (Cantabria Government, Municipality of Santillana del Mar and Botin Foundation) — whether or not to open the cave.

He said that the report will be known in “close date”, once called by the Board, which may take “days, weeks or months.”
“I hope as soon as possible,” she told the counselor, who was responding to questions from journalists on the Cantabrian Government’s position on the possible reopening of Altamira.

Information from “El diario Montañés”

This year will provide ample time for the fair, where it will install the large white tent that houses the festival, is clean as a whistle after the beautiful and All Souls Fair in pots that everyone knows, precedes the internationally known festival lebaniego exaltation of liquor and how mandated that royalties are held the second weekend of November and this year it will happen on 13, 14 and 15, on the grounds on Sunday, day 1, not a weekend complete.

The Brotherhood

Similarly, another group that devises very active these days is the Brotherhood of the Grape Pomace Liébana Italian journalists who welcomed on his visit to the region to know the characteristics of grape marc spirit lebaniego. The association will assist the region’s gastronomic 7 and 8 to IV European Congress of food and wine brotherhoods to be held in the Galician town Cambados.

It is worth stressing that the contest in which well gastronomic brotherhoods throughout Europe initially coincided with the dates of the celebration and was a prefix lebaniega a week to facilitate the attendance of the guardians of alquitara lebaniega to Galicia.

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This event was presented yesterday by the council for Local Development and Tourism Torrelavega, Juan Jose Gonzalez, and the director general for European Affairs Alberto Garcia Cervino, who were accompanied yesterday by the Galician bagpipe group, Oscar Ibanez. Groups of pipers from Britain, Ireland, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Galicia, Cantabria, Asturias and Catalonia will converge in this grand concerts and provide a unifying instrument in many towns in European culture.

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Camber Choir Clusters Sydney, Australia and Norwegian Chamber Singers, of Norway, will be responsible for putting the ‘finishing touch’ to this important program, coordinated from the Department of Culture, the head of which is Ana Belen Diaz Pereda. Speaking to this newspaper, the councilor has meant the high turnout and the good reception given to the cycle, with the assistance of the public throughout the county and region. The influx has been such that the temple of the parish church of San Pedro Advincula Polanco has remained small.

For this weekend, the choice of the organizers towards the close of the cycle could not be better. The Sydney Choir delighted the audience with a special concert Friday morning, offering a repertoire of works by Guerrero, Lobo, Victoria, Javier Bello Portu, Stanhope, Butterley and Edwards. In the second part shall be construed Sculthorpe issues, Busto, Mocoroa, Grainger, Gyger and Leek.

This set is composed of twelve women and twelve men, and directed by Paul Stanhpoe. In concert includes polyphonic music of the sixteenth century, and also existing Australian works, his style being described by connoisseurs as “fresh and beautiful.” It was formed in 1975 and quickly became one of the most renowned choirs interpreters of Renaissance music in his country, especially as regards the repertoire of Joaquin des Prez.

Classical and Traditional

On Saturday, October 31st. will close the cycle with the performance of the Norwegian Chamber Choir Singers, Norway. Here are fifteen women and as many men who will introduce the audience to his concert in a program that in its first part is devoted to sacred music, with works by, among other masters, Victoria, Grieg, Mendelssohn and Hovland. The second part will feature Norwegian folk music. This group, directed by Jon Fyllingen, was formed in 1994. Looking beautiful and distinctive sound of music ‘a capella’, and strive to work different musical ideas for different types of music. Both concerts start at eight o’clock.

This year the program have participated in choirs Lyric Cantabria, Navarre Federation of Choirs, The Cagigas, Solvay Ensemble, San Julian and Santa Maria de Solvay, the cycle is, of course, one of the most important cultural activities of all those which are organized and held annually in Polanco.

The town, according to its mayor has meaning, Julio Cabrero, becomes, for that reason, “the epicenter of choral singing” of Cantabria. It’s a cycle that has become irreplaceable in the region and attracts an audience from a region with many amateur choral singing.

Here are the program:

Market opening 10am - Route by Hayal Alone

11h - 12h30 Preparation of bread

12h30 Opening of the market by the authorities

15h - 17h Lunch Break

17h blacksmith Office Demonstration

18h musical acts of kindness Selaya Pandereteres

Spectacular 19h Fuest of Raku

All day:

- Traditional Children’s Games

- Development handmade wicker basket

- Musical Performance by Raul Molleda

From start 20h:

- A great majesty

- The rock festival Torca

The competition has been a high participation and in its first edition, under the theme of pets Cantabrian, 314 photographs have been published. The category ‘Pets Marathons-Cantabrian’ renamed from tomorrow ‘My Pets’ and users can upload their snapshots again, although out of competition. On Thursday they will announce the theme for the next marathon, which will start at 12 pm on Friday.

Five thematic

Called the ‘Around Town’ was inaugurated this week in Los Corrales de Buelna one of five exhibitions of antique toys, and simultaneously rotating display the Obra social Caja Cantabria in several of its regional centers. These samples are composed of a total of 140 toys, all original, and belonging to the first six decades of the twentieth century. They include animals, characters, kitchenware, music, home movies, beach and variety of vehicles for land, sea and air. They are made of tin, papier mache, wood, terracotta and most of the materials that were used until the advent of plastic, so find bearings, mechanical and electrical. Abound manufactured by Spanish companies, but they also include a selection of foreign toys.

It then lays out the same, about 60 comics and stories from the same time, causing people to identify with these toys do likewise with the reading that accompanied them. This inauguration was accompanied by a talk on the subject, which conducted the Cantabrian José Miguel García Varela, collector and owner of these toys, which houses a collection of over a thousand pieces, accompanied by Manuel Muñiz Castro, head of Caja Cantabria Assistance Centers.

In addition to the current exhibition can be enjoyed in the yards, the other themes are party, golf, sea and air, and rail home. Will rotate every 15 days for all persons who wish to see. Those who do not have that opportunity may turn to the major exhibition prepares for Christmas. The five subjects united and more on the palace of the Obra Social de Caja Cantabria, Santillana del Mar.

And as secretly, hiding in the sample evolution of the toys and, with it, children. The transition from entitlement to a special day, unique gifts to take the whole year, of the Magi to Santa Claus and the whole company; broken sleep for a couple of cowboys and Indians red-eye to the play. So, for people who come each day to the exhibition, be glimpsed very, very homesick.

The jury’s decision was announced yesterday by Minister of Public Works, Jose Maria Mazon, at a press conference since he phoned in directly to village headman of the village, Pedro Cano. Follows from their expressions of joy by the attainment of this award: “I imagine to what you call. How is the milk.

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The award, € 150,000, will be delivered in spring. Until then, Cano agreed to accelerate the projects still under way so that Udalla is ready to review and the official photo.

The jury has not been easy to pick a winner, said the adviser. Eleven candidates were submitted, which, in his opinion, this award reinforces that now celebrates its fifth year and almost multiplied by three the first participants (4 in its first edition). Among the arguments for giving Udalla the prize, the jury highlighted the recovery of private and public architectural heritage, the revitalization of the natural environment and, above all, the willingness of its neighbors to maintain these values over time and defending local goods.

As examples, the jury cited the rehabilitation of the chapel, bowling alley and laundry, the ornamentation of small squares with sculptures such as that on the pasiegos and salmon fishing. Adds other details such as the rehabilitation and construction of rides, taste in furniture, the undergrounding of electrical power and adequate signage.

The award ‘People of Cantabria’ aims to promote and support recovery, improvement and maintenance of the peoples of the region, as part of the defense of traditional values, natural and ecological environment, heritage, culture and art and quality of life of citizens.

Eleven candidates

This year there were eleven candidates: Liérganes, Naveda, fawn, Ruente, Udall, The Shipyard, Comillas, Esles, Sopena, Tresviso and Barcena. In each and every one of them the jury has made some considerations reflected in the minutes, after visiting several times each locality and analyze projects.

From Liérganes notes that upper hand by being a recognized historic but highlights the actions undertaken with the collaboration of different administrations. Of the states that is cozy, comfortable and enjoyable.

The environment of great value and architectural heritage of the XVII and XVIII, are some of the highlights of Naveda. The effort to preserve them and the renovation of the plaza.

The jury also appreciated the effort and dedication of Cervatos neighbors to improve their public spaces and restore the architectural heritage of Ruente while extolling the economic effort made to rehabilitate its architectural heritage and value the natural and cultural heritage.

The Shipyard and surprised last year for his work to recover the people in their areas architectural, industrial and social environment. In this issue the jury emphasized the Digital Park. Full of interesting and describe the proposed actions to recover Quotes with unknown environments and harmonizes flawlessly relevant areas.

For Esles, the jury found the high value of the proceedings and the potential of the core with buildings of varied types. Affirms that the proposed Sopeña marks the beginning of the recovery of a people declared Historic. Emphasizes the recovery of schools and the management of green spaces. Dual advantage, given its remoteness, attributed to Tresviso, from which the jury says that the actions carried out have completely transformed this village and common sense.

For Barcena appreciates the nomination but the jury understood to be forfeited in its entirety to highlight the value of all property aspects, cultural and natural.

Supposedly the young Juliana was martyred in Asia Minor (now Turkey) during the persecutions launched by Emperor Diocletian in the late third century, and his remains in the ninth century brought to here by some monks, pilgrims. Already at that time (the documents place him at 870) a chapel was built under the patronage of the holy and venerate their relics, and then a monastery that flourished under the protection of the local nobility. It was King Ferdinand I of Castile in 1045, who gave the final impetus for granting important privileges, one of which was placed under the sovereignty of their abbot villa and his possessions.

The original temple was replaced in the Romanesque period which, with various additions and alterations, has been preserved until today, which dates from the twelfth century. In the beginning was a Benedictine monastery, but in the eleventh century it acquired the status of collegiate governed by a community of canons of St Augustine.

The construction design responds to a church with three naves and transept of four sections, three semicircular apses, a cylindrical tower and dome of the transept. It completes the package with a cloister and abbey units. The nave is wider than the sides and equal to that of the transept, so the square transept. The arms of the transept does not protrude from the side walls so as not to appreciate the outdoors. The headwaters of the three vessels are formed by two semicircular apses staggered. At the foot of the nave was erected a square bell tower that is similar to the exterior appearance that is located on the cruise, giving a symmetrical image of the viewer to the church from the south facade.

On the formal and decorative, there are the existence of a main entrance on the south side open to allow access from the plaza, and another in the north wall that connects the church to the cloister. At this end of the first season became available after a triangular pediment Renaissance replacing the air wing on original Romanesque corbels, displays a niche containing the image of Santa Juliana in attitude to subdue the demon. Nor is the original fifteen arched gallery that runs along the top of the canvas south. The flaring of the cover is formed by archivolts voussoired smooth; line above a number of human figures rather deteriorated, especially in the center a mandorla supported by four angels which are in part a pantocrator seated.

The coverage of the ships is done by cross vaults, and the arms of the transept with barrel vaults apses are vaulted ceilings of furnace. Over the crossing stands a tower-shaped dome whose interior square at a level below the roof, there is a dome that rests on scallops.

An item of particular interest is the cloister attached to the end of the twelfth and early thirteenth to the northern wall of the church. In the first phase was built the south wing and part of the west wing, and into the thirteenth century this wing was completed and built the north wing. The east side is a later period (sixteenth century) and does not follow the guidelines of the Romanesque style.

Capitel.

The galleries consist of primitive arches supported by twin columns or quadruple. Altogether has 43 capitals of the oldest of the south side and west side first section, with stories of appreciable size merit, while the most recent topics vegetables.

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