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Juan Carlos Menendez

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Juan Carlos Menendez
@juancar347 Sep 3, 2026, 6:20 PM UTC

The City That Doesn't Exist

Although Soria is considered one of the smallest cities in Spain—so small, in fact, that its inhabitants traditionally suffer from the same syndrome of resilient institutional invisibility that also…

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Juan Carlos Menendez
@juancar347 Sep 2, 2026, 5:23 PM UTC

[ENG-SPN] The Romanesque and the Types of the Soul / El Románico y los Tipos del Alma

Written after his break with Freud and first published in 1921, C.G. Jung's work, entitled "Psychological Types," is not only an essential classic that should be in every library, but also a true pre…

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Juan Carlos Menendez
@juancar347 Sep 1, 2026, 2:23 PM UTC

[ENG-SPN] The Cloister Where Tombs Gaze at the Sky / El claustro donde las tumbas miran al cielo

A short distance from the medieval bridge that rises over the peaceful Duero River, whose current in some stretches seems eager to leave Soria's banks behind, hastening its desperation to dissolve in…

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Juan Carlos Menendez
@juancar347 Aug 31, 2026, 5:28 PM UTC

[ENG-SPN] The Poet Who Listened to the Duero Speak / El poeta que escuchaba hablar al Duero

Anyone who visits Soria one day and decides to walk along El Collado Street towards the Plaza de los Doce Linajes (Square of the Twelve Lineages), the Town Hall, and a little further on, the old mans…

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Juan Carlos Menendez
@juancar347 Aug 30, 2026, 9:42 AM UTC

[ENG-SPN] The Threshold Where the Sea Awakens to Mystery / El umbral donde el mar despierta al misterio

Following the patterns established by Lord Dunsany in his fantastic literature, we might see at sunset, when the sun is about to complete its sacrifice on the altar of the turbulent waters of Finiste…

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Juan Carlos Menendez
@juancar347 Aug 29, 2026, 10:39 AM UTC

[ENG-SPN] What Bosch Didn't Say... and Brueghel Painted / Lo que el Bosco no dijo... y Brueghel sí pintó

Judging by the number of imitators who echoed his surrealist vision of the world, Bosch, perhaps without realizing it, created a school of navigators of the unconscious, whose greatest talent was, pe…

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Juan Carlos Menendez
@juancar347 Aug 28, 2026, 4:39 PM UTC

The Soria Spell on Bécquer

Aside from Antonio Machado, it's clear that the 'Soria effect' also deeply influenced another of the great geniuses of world literature, although, as is often the case with genius, he wasn't widely r…

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Juan Carlos Menendez
@juancar347 Aug 27, 2026, 4:08 PM UTC

[ENG-SPN] The Storm That Awoke the Black Lagoon / La tormenta que despertó la Laguna Negra

One of the most captivating episodes linking the life of the Sevillian poet Antonio Machado to one of the most legendary places in ancient Soria, a region steeped in Celtiberian heritage and deeply r…

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Juan Carlos Menendez
@juancar347 Aug 26, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

[ENG-SPN] Vinuesa: Where Machado Found Legend / Vinuesa: donde Machado encontró la leyenda

In truth, were it not for a few unavoidable details, one would say that hardly anything has changed since 1910, when the 20th century had barely begun its slow, marathon race against time. The poet A…

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Juan Carlos Menendez
@juancar347 Aug 25, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

[ENG-SPN] The Secret Heart of Magical Spain / El corazón secreto de la España Mágica

It's difficult to resist its magnetic charm. Nature, history, art, and mystery, among other defining factors, could be considered a well-defined set of arguments that make this place, located in the…

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