Valley of the Tiétar - South of Gredos // Spain. (Casavieja)

Gredos, comarca del Valle del Tiétar

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Valley of the Tiétar - South of Gredos

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The name speaks to us about the oldness of some building, placed in full forest, close to which the resettles, as far back as the XIIIth century, seated the current urban nucleus. An antiquity that Cela, in the trip that it does for the Valley of the Tiétar and that he gathers in a chapter of Jews, Moors and Christians, relates to the Moslem España without it justifies his affirmation. To we, this name allows to us to understand established of the constructive forms of popular character; because of it, on having walked today along his streets, they can find still beautiful corners and perspectives that are unusual for the man of the great city accustomed to rational tracings, but not to meeting an internal dynamism in the houses and to the dissymmetry.

The parish, on the other hand, built in the XVIth and XVIIth century, it answers, in his front, to the symmetrical molds of the classic style; though it is of great austerity, his pinnacles are finished off by balls; in his interior stand out a Gothic vault and several baroque chapels.

Cattle people in which in the 39,40 km2 of his municipal term they predominate over the pine and the oak; nevertheless, in the wavy hills that descend towards the river, also act of presence does the oak and the holly-oaks. Here and their meadows and pastures for the bull and the pork of montanera. Between the festivities that the casavejanos like to celebrate, we will begin for the Christmas and inside these, the Living Bethlehem, the Kings' Cabalgata in the one that shows herself the imagination in the numerous coaches, disguises and extras, all this accompanied by the Round of the Shepherds. In the holiday of saint Blas, which is celebrated on February 3, the "Zarramaches" go out. Before they were decked by a very showy wardrobe by his color; today, on the other hand, the fifth ones that dress do it with a grotesque gown that remembers carnival-like customs.