ricardo Coarasa

Ricardo Coarasa is one of the Founders of Travel to the past. Journalist with archaeologist vocation, A detective in history, An Ethiopia dream counter to Mexico.

178 articles

Cholula: where volcanoes spew churches

Jorge Luis leads the "muertera" leaning against the shoulder, with the same circumspection with which recalls that in his wild youth was nine times in prison. We went to the church of Los Remedios, built on the ancient Great Pyramid of Cholula, the city with more churches per square meter in all of Mexico.

byRicardo Coarasa

15 March, 2012

Escalona: reunion with the Lazarillo de Tormes

If there is a long outstanding debt is to visit the scenes of the books that marked my childhood. So I was in the main square of Escalona, Lazarillo de Tormes where the land put through with the blind after he served a cruel trick.

byRicardo Coarasa

8 March, 2012

Black Garmo: the 3.000 Express

The attraction of the mountain is sometimes so strong that neither know nor want to avoid. I had uploaded other times Garmo Black, but never alone. Not that I want to live that experience, simply could not find anyone to accompany me.

byRicardo Coarasa

4 March, 2012

Namanga: how to stay without a passport at the border

Not even suspected when a woman boarded the bus demanding our passports plump. I, truth, that immigration was an employee that we would expedite the process. We asked 25 per head and no flinch.

byRicardo Coarasa

1 March, 2012

Teotihuacán: the city of the feathered serpent

I happen to these ancient cities that tourists go around imagining walking XXXV century on the remains of our modern cities, we thought indestructible, walking the deserted streets that barely visible remains of a skyscraper or a cathedral bell.

byRicardo Coarasa

23 February, 2012

Unknown by Jaén (III): looking for Jorge Manrique

Segura de la Sierra is traversed with bated breath, walking its slopes between paved corners, chasing our shadows on the whitewashed walls of streets that twist

byRicardo Coarasa

16 February, 2012

Alcatraz: the perfect getaway

While cruising through the cold waters of the bay of San Francisco, "The Rock" just peeking through the mist, as ashamed of his past shackles and solitary confinement.

byRicardo Coarasa

2 February, 2012

Debre Damo: the monastery of the rope and the snake

The monk throws the rope from the top. I look up. More 15 meter vertical wall separating me from the religious. It's the only way to climb to the monastery. I'm in your hands.

byRicardo Coarasa

26 January, 2012

Sintra: romance with emergency exit

Do not expect anything from a site has a distinct advantage: your ability to surprise is infinite. I expected little more from my visit to Sintra, upon arrival, rain broke with a crash. The outcome could only improve.

byRicardo Coarasa

17 January, 2012

Guadalupe: the humble wisdom of rosaries seller

If civil war broke out Mexico, a mean, Guadalupe only be able to agree to the contestants. That fervor for dark-skinned virgin breathes like no other place in the Basilica of Guadalupe. At the gates of the temple, lucid heard the phrase from my trip.

byRicardo Coarasa

13 January, 2012

Villa Rica: the beginning of the epic of Hernán Cortés

The Ford Triton leads to Antigua Veracruz zebu crosses pastures and donkeys tied to trees with no owner in sight. The first city founded by Hernan Cortes in New Spain is the most impressive place I have visited so far in Mexico, I guess its historic aura. By Ricardo Coarasa.

byRicardo Coarasa

5 January, 2012

New Year in New York

New York fascinates and horrifies you. Everything at a glance. For those who do not go running away, here are ten essential proposals for those visiting for the first time the Big Apple. By Ricardo Coarasa.

byRicardo Coarasa

29 December, 2011

El Tajin: the puzzle of the pyramid of the niches

We arrived in El Tajin, Archaeology swallowed by the jungle, ancestral pulse between stones and weeds, leaving behind rain, heat, rain again, and a grocery store after another on the shoulders, dotted watermelon vendors. By Ricardo Coarasa.

byRicardo Coarasa

23 December, 2011

Rioseta: perfect circus

Seldom have I encountered a landscape so overwhelming as Rioseta Circus, in the Aragonese Pyrenees. One step from the station Candanchú, This natural stone porch and creepy cut leaves absorbed the traveler who goes to Puerto del Somport, Summus Roman Portus, ancestral crossing between Spain and France. By Ricardo Coarasa

byRicardo Coarasa

21 December, 2011

Tlacotalpan: the revolution of "carpenter" Porfirio

Often, the difference between a place on the map and swell the long list of forgotten cities is an illustrious son to be proud of. Tlacotalpan is fortunate to be able to wield the birth certificate of one of the great, Mexican composer Agustin Lara.

byRicardo Coarasa

14 December, 2011

Unknown by Jaén (In): the rock paintings of Sierra Morena

There are two, looking at the world as more of 6.000 years, when our ancestors painted in a corner of Sierra Morena. On the bare stone broken for ever and ever, the silhouettes of carmine powder have become a generation after another. Have overcome the time. Son eternas.

byRicardo Coarasa

13 December, 2011

The eyes of the girl in Eyipantla Viridiana

The Eyipantla jump is one of those waterfalls that return the traveler a breath of freedom that has been left as shreds by the way of life. But not water, in, what comes to mind when I think of this cascade, but huge eyes, lively but sad, perhaps resigned. The eyes of the little Viridiana.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 December, 2011

San Juan de Ulúa: the last Spanish flag in Mexico

Veracruz is the beginning and end of the Spanish presence in Mexico. Landed on its shores the ships of Hernan Cortes and there remains the last bastion colonial, the fort of San Juan de Ulua, which last lowered the Spanish flag.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 November, 2011

Malicious: the cursed de Guadarrama

Some mountains appear to carry on his name a curse, as if dragged a relentless conviction or weighed on the same biblical anathema, but just hearing his name to be hopelessly attracted to them. It happened at the time with the Hells and Maladeta, in the Aragonese Pyrenees, and, more recently, the Malicious, Guadarrama.

byRicardo Coarasa

5 November, 2011

Arlington Cemetery: the american way of death

People have ways of living and, also, to die. Just shop around for their cemeteries. The Arlington is very revealing of the American soul, always proud of their patriotism and their heroes. Names 300.000 Fallen, orphans stories, bewilder the visitor. But its headstones are aligned with neatly cut lawns millimeter, in the shade of trees and with negligible views. Death can also be comfortable. Es el american way of death.

byRicardo Coarasa

19 Oct., 2011

Prague: of ring of Kafka

It was both his prison and inspiration. Of the atmosphere oprimía, but also gave vent to his literary talent. Praga y Kafka. Kafka y Praga. No means the one without the other. Its streets are the ring where the tormented writer himself settled accounts in search of a reason to redeem the absurdity of existence.

byRicardo Coarasa

4 August, 2011

Istanbul: tea among the graves on the hill of Eyüp

Istanbul is a city without parallel, with countless reasons to visit. With one foot in Asia and one in Europe, is full of tourist postcards. But without detracting from its popular mosques and the Grand Bazaar, my predilections point in another direction: the Asian district of Uskudar and Eyüp Cemetery.

byRicardo Coarasa

23 June, 2011

Swayambhunath: the temple of the screaming monkeys

On a hill on the outskirts of Kathmandu stands the temple of Swayambhunath, known as the Monkey Temple by the large number of monkeys that roam the neighborhood. To reach the stupa have to climb 365 stone steps, each more vertically, closely stalked by a legion of macaques. Up, you seen the giant eyes of Buddha. By Ricardo COARASA.

byRicardo Coarasa

20 June, 2011

Cadiz: strong sea

Cadiz is one of those cities that you never want to go. Its prime location has been, throughout history, object of sieges and sackings. The danger came from the sea almost always. A tour of defensive fortifications and defenses is a journey through time with a superb cicerones: the Mediterranean and the taverns of old Cadiz.

byRicardo Coarasa

7 June, 2011

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