The city of Cuenca is high. Very high. At more than 900 metres above ground level, its profile is a block that rises above the ground. Marked by incredible buildings that had the old city declared a World Heritage Site in 1996, among all of the buildings the hanging houses stand out for their originality and mystery as structures built on a cliff that make one feel dizzy by just looking at them. Although it is said that in times past much of the cliff was full of this type of construction, now only three survivors still defy gravity every day. With an uncertain origin in the centuries of the Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula, it is not known whether they are Arab or Christian but i

  The so-called Vía de la Plata connects the town of Mérida, in the province of Extremadura in the south of Spain, with the town of Astorga, in the northern province of León. It is said that it was habitually used by the animals that left their warm lands in the summer to go to the cool pastures of the north and which returned for the winter to avoid the cold. Then came the mysterious Tartessos; Phoenicians in origin, on the Vía de la Plata they transported the tin from the rich quarries of León to the south. But those to whom we owe most for the path’s high degree of preservation are the Romans.    Modern-day Méri

Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about Strawberry fields forever John Lennon sang these verses in the garden where he spent his childhood in Liverpool. Did you know that this place where nothing is real and nothing to get hung about was reincarnated more than two decades later, many kilometres to the south in the distant Andalusian city of Almería? This connection through time was actually the detonator that led Lennon to compose one of the most universal songs of the band from Merseyside, Strawberry Fields Forever, originally conceived when the British composer came through the Andalusian city at the end of 1966.   The stage was a large house to t