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Pieta of the "Virgin de Miraflores".
burgos cathedral
Crema Boltiada and a Chocolade Cake
Jer and Lena. Ena was doing "wedding stuff"The towns statue of El Cid.
Located at the Plaza del Cid, this statue commemorates one Spain´s most famous hero´s. Rodrigo Diáz de Vivar or as he was better known El Cid Capeador. He probably had conflicting loyalties sometimes fighting against the Spanish king Alfonso VI, sometimes fighting with him. He was the commander of the army that took Valencia in 1094, but died one year later in 1095. Its said that his body was placed on a horse and taken out of the city so that the Moors would not realise he was dead. His body was returned to Burgos, where his bones became religious relics.
Later poems and stories were written about him of attributing fantastical feats and he became the legend he is today. You may recall the Hollywood Movie `El Cid´, played by Charlton Heston and co starring Sophie Loren.
His bones were finally laid to rest in a tomb in the cathedral in 1921.
