Pedralba de Sanabria is a town located in a mountainous zone, in the northwest of the province of Zamora. They were, not many years, the cultures ago of the rye and to a lesser extent of the wheat, those that along with the meadows occupied the greater extensions. The fertile lands but are still used like orchards, whose production of potatoes, vegetables or vegetables is destined basically to the familiar consumption. To enter themselves in this town, to know their architecture, to discover the Customs and Workings of their people, or to delight with their traditional stews, are single some suggestions for the visitor who goes into by these places. Sanabria from always has been an ideal zone for the development of the tourism, offers surroundings apt for the lover of the nature, that enjoys; the pure air, the recondite places and practice the aquatic sports and of mountain. The towns of Sanabria locate in valleys or slopes, looking for the direction that offers; greater I simultaneously number of hours of sun and shelter against the wind and rain. The houses of this region conserve a certain primitive flavor, respecting as far as possible the original spirit of the houses; wall of stone and slab tile roof. The sanabresa night is an authentic treasure able to fill our senses, the noise of cascades and the rivers, the song of the birds and the vision of the dark starred nights are reasons sufficient to leave to take a walk at night. For that they please of something but popular, in summer always there is some town in celebrations. Suitable moments are these celebrations to savor the native products between which they emphasize: habones, inlays, meats and the trouts. Trouts tasted and praised by Fernando III, Felipe II, Alfonso XIII and Alexander Dumas, whom the following prescription wrote; " one takes a cup from oil, one of water, two spoonfuls of vinegar, parsley and perforated garlic; salt and pimentón, once mixed, a bonfire in the border of the lake ignites and this sauce lies down on the trout just fished ". It was, in the lake of Sanabria, where Miguel de Unamuno found the inspiration source, to write; San Manuel, Good Martyr. "Mirror of solitudes, the lake gathers ages of before the man ...". It completes light of the dusk in the mountain, is the prelude of one night cleared, a smooth breeze causes that it is necessary clothes of shelter in the heat of month of August. In winter the snow surrounds the landscape hiding under its white mantle; Hoist, plants and rocks. The life, hidden in multitude of refuges or the induced sleep sap, hopes until the spring, to leave his letargo.Unas people which they have maintained generation after generation, legend and traditions, that live in summit, eroded mountain surroundings smooth, fauna multitude, plants and millenarian trees will give the welcome to the traveller who visits Sanabria. |
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