21Apr
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I took this photo really close to Talamanca’s torrent (Catalonia), just in the middle of no where. It’s curious to see how during the XVIII century a lot of stone-made wine vats where builded like that, without a farm house close to it.
The reason was that during that period of time there were vineyards everywhere and to avoid logistic problems they decided to produce the wine close to vineyards. These lonely constructions were very usual on the Montcau Valleys but more rare on other parts of Catalonia.
I already add this photo into the wallpapers, so you are free to download it at any time.
Bages, catalonia, dry stone, Montcau, Pont de Vilomara, press, Rocafort, shelters, Solanes, stone, stone-made vats, Talamanca, Tines, Valley
31Mar
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This week I would like to show you another photograph from my recent visit to Castellcir, I took this shot from what it was the main entrance of this medieval castle. When I first arrived in front of the door I toke a look around and I get caught up in the amazing view that they had up there.
Immediately I realized two things, I wanted to take a photo from that landscape at sunset (By the way, I’m planning to process and make that photograph ready to show to you in the next days), and that I wanted another shot from inside the castle making clear the high position where the castle was builded.
I arrived there almost by sunset and the sun was at the same altitude that us, this gave me the opportunity to capture this second door of light having the same high as the real door.
It’s also amazing to see how wear down are all the floor stones after one thousand years of sun, wind and usage.
I already add this photo into the wallpapers, so you are free to download it at any time.
ancient, castellcir, castle, catalonia, door, europe, forest, fortress, hill, Medieval, sky, stone, sunset
17Mar
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A few days ago I started looking for interesting places to visit. I was surprised when I found the Castle of Cir, relatively close to my home and judging by some photographs I saw it was an interesting place to visit.
The castle is known as “Castell de la Popa” (In English “Stern Castle”) for the curios rock formation where it was built. Isn’t it looking like a ship’s stern? Some others are even capable to see a face on the rock. It is located next to the village of Castellcir, Catalonia. It’s not known when it was exactly built, but in the year 1014 it was documented as “Castell Cir” for the first time. Before that, it appears in other documents with the name of “Castell de Tenes”.
Today it’s almost in ruins but in the other side of the castle the main building and some other parts of the walls are still up. The building that you can see from this photograph is the Sant Martí of the rock chapel. There are several legends concerning this castle but the most famous is one involving a secret tunnel to a distant tower named “Torrassa” where a big lamb statue made of gold was buried.
As usual you can download this photograph as wallpaper, it is available in a large variety of formats to perfectly fit you computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone.
ancient, architecture, building, castell de la Popa, castellcir, castle, catalonia, chapel, church, europe, forest, fort, fortress, grass, Medieval, old, rocks, ruins, stone, tower, trees, wall
02Feb
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Snow isn’t uncommon in Catalonia, however today is snowing all over the country. The shoots below are done a few miles from my home, usually to do similar shoots I should travel far, far away.
I really don’t know how much snow will remain tomorrow. Therefore, instead of start working with my computer I decided to take my car and go around with my camera.
catalonia, landscape, nature, snow, white
