sillydoll
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2002 CF: 2004 from Paris: 2006 VF: 2007 CF: 2009 Aragones, Ingles, Finisterre: 2011 X 2 on CF: 2013 'Caracoles': 2014 CF and Ingles 'Caracoles":2015 Logrono-Burgos (Hospitalero San Anton): 2016 La Douay to Aosta/San Gimignano to Rome:
Zaragoza: Celt Iberians settled the fertile valley as a fortress called Salduie, followed by Romans. As the Roman world crumbled the Visigoths waltzed in about 472. The Moors rode in next in 714, making their Saraqusta the northern capital of Al-Andalus. Christians retook Zaragoza in 1118 and
the Le Seo Cathedral was built over a Muslim mosque, which itself was built atop a Roman temple. The most amazing Roman legacy was a total surprise to everyone in 1972. During excavations for an apartment building, bulldozers scraped away the fill over a 6,000-seat amphitheater, a giant structure for a town of 18,000. No archaeological or documentary evidence had ever hinted at it, so Zaragozans, from schoolchildren to archaeology professors, were just as amazed by the find. Excavation continued for 30 years. The amphitheater museum is a great place not only to admire the time-worn ruins, but to read the English panels that put more than 2,000 years of history into context.
Many Catholics believe that the Virgin Mary appeared to a discouraged Apostle Saint James who was preaching to the early converts on the banks of the Ebro before she ascended to heaven This was Jan. 2 in the year 40 and as a symbol of the Coming of the Virgin, she left behind the marble pillar on which she had perched.
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ ... /1052/LIFE
the Le Seo Cathedral was built over a Muslim mosque, which itself was built atop a Roman temple. The most amazing Roman legacy was a total surprise to everyone in 1972. During excavations for an apartment building, bulldozers scraped away the fill over a 6,000-seat amphitheater, a giant structure for a town of 18,000. No archaeological or documentary evidence had ever hinted at it, so Zaragozans, from schoolchildren to archaeology professors, were just as amazed by the find. Excavation continued for 30 years. The amphitheater museum is a great place not only to admire the time-worn ruins, but to read the English panels that put more than 2,000 years of history into context.
Many Catholics believe that the Virgin Mary appeared to a discouraged Apostle Saint James who was preaching to the early converts on the banks of the Ebro before she ascended to heaven This was Jan. 2 in the year 40 and as a symbol of the Coming of the Virgin, she left behind the marble pillar on which she had perched.
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ ... /1052/LIFE
