Martos
Hi Everyone,
I decided that this blog entry would be reserved for "Martos". I have found some information about the town which I have decided to type out, to give you a better idea of where I am living.
Surrounded by endless olive groves, it doesn´t take long to realise why Martos is Spain´s number one producer of olives. The ruins of a Moorish fortress, La Pena, on a great rock outcrop that towers over the small town, are a vivid reminder of the great struggles of the reconquista when the Moorish forts of Jaen became the front line against hostile Christian incursions, and the scene of bitter battles and sieges. This one fell to Fernando III on St Marta´s Day in 1225, thus giving the town its present name. In the old quarter with it´s narrow, winding streets the church of Santa Maria de la Villa is thirteenth-century, constructed soon after the victory, although it underwent substantial rebuilding in the fifteenth and later centuries. The interior has an outstanding Baroque retablo as well as fine early Christian sarcophagus dating from the fourth century. The fifteenth-century church of Santa Marta with its Isabelline entrance and the former sixteenth-century prison, now the Ayuntamiento, graced by another fine portal, is also worth a look.
Well there you go! My new home...
That is it for this update. More soon
Love
Laus
xx
I decided that this blog entry would be reserved for "Martos". I have found some information about the town which I have decided to type out, to give you a better idea of where I am living.
Surrounded by endless olive groves, it doesn´t take long to realise why Martos is Spain´s number one producer of olives. The ruins of a Moorish fortress, La Pena, on a great rock outcrop that towers over the small town, are a vivid reminder of the great struggles of the reconquista when the Moorish forts of Jaen became the front line against hostile Christian incursions, and the scene of bitter battles and sieges. This one fell to Fernando III on St Marta´s Day in 1225, thus giving the town its present name. In the old quarter with it´s narrow, winding streets the church of Santa Maria de la Villa is thirteenth-century, constructed soon after the victory, although it underwent substantial rebuilding in the fifteenth and later centuries. The interior has an outstanding Baroque retablo as well as fine early Christian sarcophagus dating from the fourth century. The fifteenth-century church of Santa Marta with its Isabelline entrance and the former sixteenth-century prison, now the Ayuntamiento, graced by another fine portal, is also worth a look.
Well there you go! My new home...
That is it for this update. More soon
Love
Laus
xx
posted by Laus at 10:47 am
2 Comments:
Home is not where Lee is
Maybe former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee will start feeling lucky in real estate, now that potential buyers of his Bellevue house know he's not coming back to work in Redmond.
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Hey there, love your blog Laura, and haven't been able to leave a comment forever! Spain, sounds very different from Thailand. Landscape sounds beautiful even though I dislike olives!
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