http://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/painting/spanish-painting/romanesque-gothic-and-early-renaissance-painting/
Although it was declared National Monument in 1917, its paintings were sold to several Northamerican museums in 1922; however, some of those paintings were recovered by the Prado museum in 1957.
There has been a big controversy regarding the date it was built, due to the special characteristics of the building and its paintings. Today it is generally accepted it belongs to the end of the 11th century.
the photos of this card were taken before the last restortion of San Baudelio.
http://www.turismo-prerromanico.es/arterural/sbberlanga/berlangaficing.htm
On a dried up moorland near Berlanga in Soria, we find this strange building that seems out of time, out of space or both things at the same time, due to its special characteristics. All of it is surprising: its discreet external appearance, its complex inner structure and the remains of its paintings that after a sad story of buying and selling and courts, they are spread among several North American museums and the Museo del Prado. It was declared a national monument in 1917.
When getting near to San Baudelio de Berlanga, the first thing we see is an austere square construction located on the northern side of a small hill, with a four pitched roof, two doors, one in the northern wall with a double horse shoe arch extended 1/3 of its radius, and another one, round arch, facing west, both placed at different levels availing themselves from the uneven land. This nave has another cube attached to, smaller in its east side, covered with a gable roof. The church is built with thick walls upon a base of big ashlars, without any external decoration, nor eaves, modillions nor any other detail that might attract the attention in this small building that only has two horse shoe windows, very narrow and with interior embrasures, one in the apse and the other one higher on its west side of the northern face.
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!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition
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