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Reapers War, Pyrenees as a border. Mountains on the border. The War of the Reapers 1640 – 1652 was the war that affected much of the Catalonia landscape. It had as...
History of the st. James Way After Christ’s Resurrection the apostles followed the instructions He had given during His apparition and scattered round the world to spread His word. The Apostle...
Pyrenees Treaty , Background In the 17th century, Europe was a field of disagreement between absolutist monarchies and feudal counties. France entered the Thirty Years’ War with Spain, after Spanish victories...
Witches of Montseny and the events of Viladrau. Viladrau is a mountain village located in the heart of the Montseny range, at 821m / (2,693ft) above see level . In Viladrau,...
Witches in Pyrenees Local culture of Pyrenees tells us many legends about witches and how common they were there and in other Regions. A witch was a woman who signed a...
Cathars, Pyrenees’s Good-Men. Catharism was a gnostic Christian movement, spread from the 10th to the 13th centuries, throughout Asia Minor, the Balkans, northern Italy, Occitania, Rhineland, Champagne and the Pyrenees. The...
The trementinaires of the Pyrenees The trementinaires of the Pyrenees (turpentinaires) were women originally from this mountainous areas who were engaged in the collection of medicinal herbs and oil resin (from...
Pyrenees 1900 – 1941 Eroic Pyrenees. Pyrenees 1902 was a turning point in the sport of mountaineering, with the first female-ascent of Aneto by Montserrat Mestre. The Cadier Brothers climbed Aneto-Back...
The Pyrenees from 1,880 to 1,900. The modern Pyrenees Modern mountaineering began in the Pyrenees in the last quarter of the 19th century. In 1,878 Maurice Goudon, St Saud and Courrège...
The Pyrenees from 1,850 to 1,880 scientists give way to romantics. After scientists have been studying the Pyrenees, others introduced a new way to approach these mountains. In 1,852 Lézat made...
