Miguel Ángel Revilla, President of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria, Spain

Miguel Ángel Revilla, President of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria, Spain

Contribution letter

English:

I have always been intrigued by the Albeldense Chronicle of the year 883 that describes the end of the battle of Covadonga in the year 722. In the town of Los Llanos (Camaleño) a fragment of that Chronicle is in bronze:

“Then those of the Hosts of the Saracens, who had survived the battle of Covadonga, were buried in Monte Subiedes when a mountain of rocks collapsed on them, burying them by divine judgment. That day the Kingdom of Asturias was born.”

Whether the judgment was divine or not, the Muslims camped in the worst place of Liébana region where, over the centuries, the landslides of rocks and earth are a constant. Pelayo, knowing the area like nobody else, undoubtedly, laid a trap for them.

Welcoming the Torch

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