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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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