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Cement on the banks of the Duero de Machado

1/29/2021, 3:40:32 PM


The Royal Academy of San Fernando asks for the help of UNESCO and the Ministry of Culture to stop a 1,300-story development on the "sacred shore of Spanish poetry"

“La ribera sacra de la poesía”, the “most mythical” place in Spanish literature, as defined by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, the banks of the Duero to which Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Gerardo sang, among others Diego or Antonio Machado, are about to adjoin the fencing of a private urbanization of 1,363 homes, according to the urban plans of the Soria City Council.

To prevent this, the academy has claimed the ...

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