La puerta del Sol

¿Sabía que Madrid cuenta con el resto de muralla árabe más antiguo de Espana? ?Y que la ciudad tuvo una muralla árabe y otra cristiana? Aunque hasta hace pocos anos se ha venido afirmando que ha habido dos murallas árabes, hoy se acepta que la primera sí lo fue y que la segunda era de fabricación cristiana. En este libro se ofrece un recorrido histórico, profundo y actualizado por las murallas más antiguas de la ciudad. Autora con más de treinta títulos publicados, especializada en los temas de Madrid, tal y como puede verse en este catálogo.

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"Siena: City of Secrets" is a charming, intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Part cultural history and intellectual memoir, part travelogue and guide book, Tylus writes with a novelist s flair, taking the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-travelled roads and alleys of the ancient city. Today, Siena can appear on the surface standoffish, a bit static, and very old-fashioned, especially when compared to its larger, flashier cousins Roma and Firenze. But first impressions wear away as we learn from Tylus that...

"Una de las muchas razones de este libro es protestar contra esa desaparición del humanismo grecolatino, mostrando a la vez, en un diccionario muy personal, mi pasión por ese mundo y muchos de sus autores, intentando ver (y no es difícil) lo que aún tienen de nuevo, y de materia espléndida para construir el futuro más libre y más hedonista. Para hacer este libro, invitador y que se busca ameno, he utilizado múltiples ayudas y muchos libros, bastantes citados al azar de cada entrada, pero hay otros más que no cito, porque este es un libro de gusto erudito, pero no académico. El...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...