Cristina Garcia

Javier Hernández

Alba Hernández

Marcos García

Jaime Regalado.

Las Arribes del Duero

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Las Arribes del Duero The rivers are its main natural resource because the deep depressions are perfect for the construction os dams and reservoirs to generate electricity. To carry out these constructions, Spain signed a treaty with Portugal that divided the section of the Duero, which forms the natural border between the two countries. The Spanish part os Las Arribes has been declared “Natural Park Arribes del Duero”, and the Portuguese part, “International Duero Natural Park” Together form one of the largest protected areas in Europe. There are cultural events like “Tuesdays Vitigudino”, “The Godmothers”, “The fifth” or “The dance of the flag” and artistic demonstrations like highlights frescoed chapels. We have done a power point about legens, refrains and poems from the Salamanca's zone of Arribes del Duero. This place is located between Portugal and Salamanca. Arribes del Duero is called as it because of the river that pass trhought the mountains. We have searched on the internet some information of some authors who write about this place. We didin't find it easily but we could find some interesting poems like this:

Antonio Machado " A un olmo seco":

The old elm tree split by lightning and its half rotten

with the rains of April and May sun some green leaves have emerged.

Elm Hill centennial

lapping the Duero! A yellowish moss will stain the white crust

the trunk decayed and dusty.

There will, which singing poplars that guard the road and the shore, inhabited by brown nightingales.

Army ants in a row

he is climbing, and deep inside hatched gray spider webs.

Before you down, elm del Duero

the woodsman with an ax, and the carpenter you into hair bell

lance truck or wagon yoke;

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before red at home tomorrow burn in a miserable hut,

the edge of a road; before uprooting you a whirlwind

and broken the white breath of the mountains; before the river to the sea will push

valleys and ravines, Elm, I note in my wallet

the grace of your growing green industry. My heart hopes

also, towards the light and to life Another miracle of spring.

Al olmo viejo, hendido por el rayo y en su mitad podrido,

con las lluvias de abril y el sol de mayo algunas hojas verdes le han salido.

¡El olmo centenario en la colina

que lame el Duero! Un musgo amarillento le mancha la corteza blanquecina

al tronco carcomido y polvoriento.

No será, cual los álamos cantores que guardan el camino y la ribera,

habitado de pardos ruiseñores.

Ejército de hormigas en hilera va trepando por él, y en sus entrañas

urden sus telas grises las arañas.

Antes que te derribe, olmo del Duero, con su hacha el leñador, y el carpintero

te convierta en melena de campana, lanza de carro o yugo de carreta;

antes que rojo en el hogar, mañana, ardas en alguna mísera caseta,

al borde de un camino; antes que te descuaje un torbellino

y tronche el soplo de las sierras blancas; antes que el río hasta la mar te empuje

por valles y barrancas, olmo, quiero anotar en mi cartera

la gracia de tu rama verdecida. Mi corazón espera

también, hacia la luz y hacia la vida, otro milagro de la primavera.

Cristina Garcia, Javier Hernández, Alba Hernández, Marcos García y Jaime Regalado.