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In this presentation we make a quick tour of the main periods of Pre-romanesque Art in Spain highlighting the main characteristics and the most interesting monuments of each phase. Casa de Cultura de San Lorenzo de El Escorial Saturday 3 March 2018. Free admission.

We present a new book, written by our partner Carlos Benítez Castelar, on a topic as interesting and little known as the rebellion of Hermenegildo against Leovigildo, the reaction of the different actors of this story and its end, told by the Byzantine general Liborio de Rodas, sent by Tiberius to Spalis at the head of a cavalry detachment, more as a symbolic gesture of the Empire’s support for the rebellion than as an effective military aid.

Orense is a surprising province in which we can find both the oldest monastery of Galicia as well as Visigoth and Mozarabic buildings of great interest, memories of the Asturian pre-Romanesque, or the famous Romanesque of the Ribeira Sacra and the Way of Santiago, but it also offers us precious legends that we can tour […]