📜 Legends of Spain
＋ File legend12 legends and folk tales from Spain, mapped to where they were born and retold one by one.
Toledo's Ermita del Cristo de la Vega holds a crucifix whose right arm hangs free of the cross, and Spain has told at least three stories to explai...
In the mountains of La Vera, in the province of Cáceres, an old romance and local legend tell of La Serrana de la Vera, a beautiful woman who lived...
A pass at 865 metres south of Granada, on the old road to the Alpujarras, is called El Suspiro del Moro, the Moor's Sigh: the spot where Boabdil, l...
The Casa de las Siete Chimeneas stands on Plaza del Rey in central Madrid, one of the few pieces of sixteenth-century domestic architecture left in...
Mari of Anboto is the great lady of Basque mythology, said to live in a cave high on the east wall of Anboto, a 1,331-metre limestone ridge in the ...
On the wild Galician coast near Cedeira, in A Coruña, the tiny sanctuary of San Andrés de Teixido has drawn pilgrims for centuries, wrapped in one ...
In Alfonso X's Estoria de España, written around 1270-1289, there is a palace in Toledo that had stood locked since the time of many kings. Roderic...
Beneath the vanished church of San Cebrián in Salamanca lies a crypt that popular legend transformed, from the Middle Ages onward, into a secret sc...
This grim legend from 12th-century Aragón is tied to King Ramiro II, called 'the Monk' because he left a monastery to take the crown after his brot...
Teruel, in Aragón, preserves the tomb of Diego de Marcilla and Isabel de Segura, whose story of thwarted love is traditionally dated to the early 1...
Soria's Monte de las Ánimas is a real hill, and on the map it carries a duller name: Monte de Peñaranda. Its famous one is ecclesiastical bookkeepi...
In the misty hills and hollow lanes of Galicia, in Spain's green northwest, the oldest and most feared apparition is the Santa Compana, a nocturnal...