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La “muralla china” de Huesca: 840 metros de roca donde un señor de la guerra medieval levantó su fortaleza

Desde el mirador de la ermita de San Marcos parece la obra de un ejército de canteros: dos filas paralelas de piedra caliza, casi verticales, que bajan por una loma y se meten en el agua verde del embalse de Canelles. Entre ellas asoma una ermita medio derruida. Nadie levantó esos muros. Son los Roques […]

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Spain’s “Great Wall” Was Never Built: It Is a 2,750 Feet Rock Ridge That a Medieval Lord Turned Into a Fortress

From the viewpoint at the chapel of San Marcos, it looks like the work of an army of stonemasons. Two lines of pale limestone, almost vertical, run down a hillside and disappear into the green water of the Canelles reservoir. A half-ruined chapel peeks out between them. Nobody built those walls. They are the Roques […]

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