monastery Archives - viajesalpasado.com - The online magazine for travelers

Spain

Guadalupe and history of the Camino Real

A place visited kings, potato, conquerors like Columbus and Hernán Cortés and even illustrious writers such as Cervantes de Unamuno or, He walked up the Guadalupe virgin to give the chains that had been locked in the dungeons of Oran, as recorded in the books of the monastery visit.

byContributors

10 April, 2013

Lake Yamdrok: Buddhist monastery that saved the woman-pig

En route to Everest, the fascinating Lake Turquoise looked three centuries ago, by the highest mountain range on earth, the most famous female reincarnation of Tibet. It is a landscape that is impregnated overwhelming mysticism that surrounds the corners that the mountains have taken to silence.

byRicardo Coarasa

8 February, 2013

Spain

Uclés Monastery: the house of the Order of Santiago

When thinking of the Middle Ages come to mind always the same recurring topics: impregnable fortresses, bloody wars, religious orders ... Uclés Monastery has a lot of three things, so no need to say anything more to justify a visit to this impressive collection is a National Monument 1931. It was the home of the mighty Order of Santiago, sits on a hill and its sturdy walls seems to have stopped the story.

byContributors

10 March, 2011

Black Guardians of the Holy Sepulchre

On one of the domes of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, temple on the roof of the world's most revered Christian, a small community of Ethiopian monks refuse to be marginalized by their brothers in faith. And 1808, a fire destroyed the documents that supported their rights custodians and guardians of the holy places blacks were confined to the roof of the basilica. And there are.

byRicardo Coarasa

10 June, 2010

Naples 1944: Magistral chronicle of a surreal city	9,75/10
"The dead and the journalist": "inevitable" death	9,75/10
"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	9,75/10
Tierra de Brujas: When it doesn't rain do the blue veins dry up??	9,70/10
Of the ruins of the empires: Asia's adjustment with European colonialism	9,45/10
“A possible life”: The scar that leaves the memory	9,40/10
"Quijote in the Congo": They were not giants, It was a river	9,25/10
"Pilgrims of beauty": Italy and Greece Bacanal	9,20/10
"Travel with Charley": Raw portrait of the US 60	9,05/10
Winter notes on summer impressions: Dostoevsky in front of the mirror	8,90/10
The city of God: the guts of Rome	8,75/10
On the road: the “American Dream” of the underworld	8,60/10
Strengthen the foundation: Africa raises its voice	8,15/10
My trip to Africa: Churchill takes his rifle	7,50/10
"Mexico. Memories of a traveler ": The cursed book that clears the country	6,25/10
“Bangkok”: the adventures of a westerner among prostitutes, bars, massages and excesses	5,50/10