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During the Napoleon invasion of Spain, Juana La Galana lead an insurrection in the village of Valdepeñas, in La Mancha, encouraging the women to pour boiling oil on the french troops from windows and balconies.

To this day, she is revered and fondly remembered.

FAQ

❓“when will women boil me in oil?”

❗️when they feel like it!

Do not rush women!

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Motel El Hidalgo proyecto original

Antonio Lamela Valdepeñas

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Experimentación en agricultura y gestión forestal en La Nava del Conejo

Que es La Nava del Conejo Centro experimental La Nava del conejo en Valdepeñas Castilla la Mancha es un centro experimental agroforestal La Nava del Conejo es una finca de titularidad pública que es gestionada por el Instituto Regional de Investigaciones Agrarias y Forestales (IRIAF) de la Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha. Desde octubre de 2021, mediante una concesión demanial, FIRE en…

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Cierre de Vialidades por Carrera 21K Coahuila

Cierre de Vialidades por Carrera #21KCoahuila

** Se llevará a cabo este domingo 9 de junio desde las 5:00 horas. Saltillo, Coahuila de Zaragoza / Com Soc / Junio 5 de 2024.-Este domingo 9 de junio se implementará un operativo de cierre de vialidades con motivo de la tradicional carrera 21K Coahuila 2024. Zulema Banda Alemán, Subdirectora de Tránsito de la Comisaría de Seguridad y Protección Ciudadana, exhortó a la ciudadanía a tomar sus…

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Mapa realizado por SCRIPTORIUM YAYYAN de Curro Gutierrez. Trabajo de investigación historiográfica confeccionado por el estudio de arquitectura amate+saga  de Eva Amate y Manuel "Saga". Manuel "Saga" ha utilizado su investigación sobre la recreación del mapa fundacional @Valdepeñas de Jaén en una parte de sus tesis doctoral: 

Sánchez García, M. (2022) Siblings Overseas. Foundational landscape, law, land distribution, and urban form in 16th-century Spanish colonial cities. Three cases of new towns in Jaen (Spain), Nueva Granada (Colombia) and Cuyo (Argentina). Tesis Doctoral. Politecnico di Torino, Universidad de Granada. Directores: Profesores Juan Calatrava y Sergio Pace. 

Realizada gracias al auspicio de @granada_universidad y Politecnico di Torino. Bajo el programa de intercambio internacional Erasmus Plus Projects Apoyo en la investigación de don Félix Martínez Cabrera, Serafín Parra Delgado y José Manuel Marchal Martínez. 

Proyecto propulsado y patrocinado por la Asociación Cultural LUGIA, con la colaboración económica del Ayuntamiento de Valdepeñas de Jaén y la UNED de Jaén. 

El Mapa se encuentra depositado en el Archivo Municipal de Valdepeñas de Jaén.

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(Photo: Carmen Escobar Carrio)

Juana Galán - Heroic guerrillera 

When the French invaded Spain during the Peninsular War, some women were determined to resist. Among them was Juana Galán (1787-1812), the daughter of a prosperous tavern keeper. 

On June 6, 1808, a column of 1,000 enemy troops attacked the town of Valdepeñas. Juana rallied the townswomen under her command. They manned the windows and threw boiling water and oil at the enemy.

Juana went to the street armed with a club. She reportedly pulled several French soldiers from their horses and dispatched them with a blow to the head. The townspeople’s fierce resistance forced the French to retreat and never return.

Juana didn’t live to see the end of the war. She died in 1812 while giving birth to her daughter. Her legacy lives on and she was made a local heroine and a symbol of resistance. She now has her own monument in Valdepeñas.

Like Juana, other women fought in desperate situations or during riots, sometimes with improvised weapons. In 1809, an unnamed woman armed with a sword rallied the inhabitants of Penafiel (northern Portugal) and led them in battle against the raiders. In 1811, María Marcos, a tavern keeper from La Palma del Condado, played a key role in repelling a small group of French soldiers. 

There were also cases of women involved in guerrilla warfare. The Catalan Somatén, a paramilitary defense organization, had female members such as María Escoplé, Magdalena Bofill, Margarita Tona, María Catalina and Catalina Martín. Francisca de la Puerta reportedly fought in Extremadura and commissioned the Junta of her province for permission to form her own guerrilla band. 

Wanting to avenge her father and brother, Martina de Ibaibarriaga Elorriagafora disguised herself as a man and led a guerrilla band until she gained a commission in the Spanish army. An unnamed woman was given the command of a troop by the Junta of Molina de Aragón in 1809. A British officer also mentioned women serving with bands of irregulars as active combatants. 

For more heroines of the Peninsular War, see Agustina de Aragón. 

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Further reading

Esdaile Charles J., Women in the Peninsular War

Sheldon Natasha, “Juana Galan: A Spanish Heroine of the Peninsula War”

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Neruda había traído de Java pieles auténticas. Entonces nos poníamos esas vestiduras y armábamos una selva virgen llena de gritos ancestrales. En medio de aquella algarabía de rugidos siempre sonaba de repente un timbrazo en la puerta. Era un catedrático del piso de abajo que subía metido en un impecable pijama blanco a pedirnos que, por favor, rugiéramos más bajo, porque no le dejábamos dormir. Creo que fue Cernuda el que dijo: “A este señor hay que invitarle a una copa de Valdepeñas la próxima vez”. El sábado siguiente, en pleno ritual, se oyó el timbre. Amparo Muntt, disfrazada de bandera argentina, con una gasa blanquiazul, se acercó a la puerta para recibir la queja. Pero el que llegó no era el catedrático sonámbulo, sino Federico García Lorca en persona, que al ver aquella bandera humana, la cogió de la mano, la introdujo en el salón, mandó callar a la concurrencia enloquecida y soltó estas palabras proféticas: “Esta bandera de Argentina nos custodiará un día”.

Maruja Mallo

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cover study

art: Ginoe book design: Ruzzel Valdepeña

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O cheiro de Deus – Roberto Drummond

Um livro fantástico, em todos os sentidos..... Personagens que ninguém iria imaginar: uma moça que, ao chegar a frente fria da Argentina, dá uns espirros e vira negra! Um coronel que tem dois corações – um bom e um ruim, os filhos da matriarca (que é o fio da história, fica cega mas quer sentir o cheiro de Deus) tem nomes de whisky (Johnnie Walker, Red Label...), tem lobisomem, fantasma,

anã, tem uma cidade em permanente guerra entre os partidários da UDN e os do PSD tem carta perdida, tem cheiro de tudo!

“—Catula é um campo de batalha – sentenciava Tio Red Label-, onde o em e o Mal estão em guerra – e acrescentava, quando bebia mais Valdepeñas que devia -, Catula tem uma alma branca, refém do sentimento do pecado herdado dos portugueses, e uma alma negra, herdada da Mãe África, para a qual não existe pecado -e, na quarta garrafa de Valdepeñas, Tio Red Label erguia um brinde e gritava – Catula é a pátria brasileira.”

“Em pouco tempo, Vó Inácia tinha 17 suspeitas d cheiro de Deus, mas o cheiro do suor dos amantes seguia  em primeiro lugar...”

“ – Se eu fosse viver de novo, irmão rifle, com o que aprendi como cega, eu ia agir como se todo dia fosse dia de festa. Eu ia decretar um feriado nacional só para mim e viver cada coisa sem o sentimento do pecado, sem o sentimento de culpa que está matando meu filho Red Label....

- Não é pecado ser feliz, irmão rifle. O que estraga tudo é este sentimento judaico-crisão de culpa. Culpa por estar alegre. Culpa por estar feliz. Culpa por amar. A alegria, a felicidade e o amor, irmão rifle, são invenções de Deus. Mas eu sempre agi como se fossem invenção do Diabo. É a maneira branca de ver a vida que fez isso comigo, irmão rifle.”

“- Os cegos é que deviam dirigir o muno, porque os que têm dois olhos não enxergam os lados da medalha.”

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

so. you know that i study the ancient world. at some point i thought the question 'what if spain was divided into city-states', and thus this map was born lol

i'll now proceed to talk about every ancient greece-like area (cause not all of them are city states), but first, some preambles

the base map is supposed to show the comarcas, but it was divided into very weird areas, and i wasn't able to see what it corresponded to. that's why you might see some weird divisions here and there.

i tried to divide them into areas of 1 million inhabitants. sometimes this wasn't possible, either because there were cities / metro areas of more than that, or because i had isolated that territory creating others and i had no choice but to make it its own.

this map didn't show the canary islands :(

i know some groupings are a bit weird, i didn't plan this out and just did it on the go so yeah

i know it doesn't make sense to compare modern populations and settings with an ancient greek administrative model but this is just for fun <3

i also added different government systems. i did them randomly for fun, so don't think much about them ksdks, i just wanted to showcase the variety of different government systems in ancient greece

okay, let's go (under the cut)

madrid: the most populated city-state, it is an autochratic monarchy

toledo: it is a democratic city-state

alcarria: it is a kingdom formed by three main tribes, the guadalajarians, the henarians, and the cuencians. the capital is in cuenca.

la mancha: it is a league formed by the city-states of albacete, hellín, villarrobledo, almansa, la roda, chinchilla, ciudad real, puertollano, tomelloso, alcázar de san juan, valdepeñas, and manzanares. the capital is ciudad real.

morena-cazorla: it is a kingdom formed by two main tribes, the morenians and cazorla-segurians, each one with one king and one capital; respectively jaén and córdoba.

guadalhorcia: it is a federation under the leadership of the city-state of antequera. the other city-states are vélez, alhaurín, ronda, cártama, nerja, tórrox, and álora. they are all oligarchies.

málaga: it is an aristocratic oligarchic city-state.

sevilla: it is a democratic city-state.

tartessia: it is an ethnic kingdom (ethnos). the capital is almonte.

cádiz: it is a tyranic autochratic city-state (ruled by a tyrant).

[i just realised i have two 11s... oops. let's pretend the northern 11 is number 12 okay?]

11. huelva: it is a democratic city-state.

12. caceressia: it is an ethnic kingdom. the capital is mérida.

13. nasridia: it is a kingdom divided into the tribes of the granadians, alpujarrians, bazians, huescarians, guadixians, and alhamians. the capital is granada.

14. indalia: it is a federation under the leadership of the city-state of almería. the other city-states are roquetas, el ejido, nerja, vera, huércal-overa, purchena, vélez, lorca, caravaca, and totana.

15. cartagena: it is a democratic city-state.

16. murcia: it is an ethnic kingdom. the capital is murcia.

17. alacant: it is a tyranic autochratic city-state.

18. jucaria: it is a kingdom divided into the tribes of the utielians, bunyolians, albaidans, and jucarians. the capital is gandia.

19. valencia: it is a tyranic autochratic city-state.

20. west iberia: it is a league formed by the city-states of alcora, albocasser, cirat, segorbe, vinaros, castelló, borriana, morella, andorra, alcañiz, híjar, teruel, utrillas, mora de rubielos, calamocha, cantavieja, valderrobres, albarracín, illueca, calatayud, daroca, la almunia, cariñena, belchite, quinto, and caspe. its capital is teruel.

21. aragón: it is a league formed by the city-states of zaragoza, borja, ejea, utebo, tarazona, alagón, samianigo, fraga, monzón, uesca, xaca, tamarit, sariñena, graus, boltanya, and barbastro. its capital is zaragoza.

22. east iberia: it is an ethnic kingdom. the capital is lleida.

23. barcelona: it is a tyranic autochratic city-state.

24. llobregat: it is a democratic city-state (technically it is sant feliù de llobregat, but i wanted it to encompass other cities like cornellá or sant boi).

25. mataró: it is a democratic city-state.

26. girona: it is a monarchic autocratic city-state.

27. balearia: it is a league formed by the city-states of palma, sóller, inca, petra, llucmajor, manacor, ciutadella, maó, eivissa, and formentera. the capital is palma.

28. coruña: it is an oligarchic autocratic city-state.

29. galicia: it is an ethnic kingdom. the capital is vigo.

30. west leonia: it is an ethnic kingdom. the capital is astorga.

31. oviedo: it is a democratic city-state.

32. east leonia: it is an ethnic kingdom. the capital is león.

33. castilla: it is a league formed by the city-states of santander, torrelavega, castro-urdiales, miranda, aranda, burgos, briviesca, medina de pomar, valle de mena, lerma, roa, haro, logroño, calahorra, and arnedo. the capital is burgos.

34. bizkaia: it is a federation under the leadership of the city-state of bilbo. the other city-states are durango, ondarroa, gernika, sopela, balmaseda, and igorre. they're all democracies.

35. gasteiz: it is a democratic city-state.

36. nafarroa: it is a league formed by the city-states of iruña, tudela, lizarra, erriberri, and zangoza. the capital is iruña.

37. transdueria: it is a federation under the leadership of the city-state of salamanca. the other city-states are almazán, soria, burgo de osma, ólvega, ágreda, segovia, el espinar, cuéllar, palazuelos, san ildefonso, ávila, arévalo, arenas de san pedro, las navas del marqués, candeleda, santa marta, béjar, ciudad rodrigo, and villamayor. they're all monarchies.

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Viña Albali Reserva 2015. 13% Vol. Félix Solís S.L. D.O. Valdepeñas. #felixsolis #dovaldepeñas #viñaalbalivaldepeñas #viñaalbali

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Valdepeñas.

[dressupjohnnyk]

Tonight I’m going to see Joaquin Valdepeñas conduct Glenn Gould School students in a program of chamber works. There’s nothing that compares to the enthusiasm of young musicians! My outfit is Red, Black & Silver! Suit from Simons Homme, shirt from Zara Man & sneakers from Aldo Shoes! 🖤❤️🖤

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 12 imprescindibles: qué ver y hacer en VALDEPEÑAS y alrededores

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Argentina Valdepeñas es Bicampeona del Maratón de Costa Rica

#ArgentinaValdepeñas es Bicampeona del #Maratón de #CostaRica

San José, Costa Rica / Mayo 14 de 2024.- Por segundo año consecutivo, la corredora coahuilense Argentina Valdepeñas conquistó el maratón de San José en Costa Rica, al realizar un tiempo de 2 horas 43 minutos y 41 segundos, con lo que se consolida como una de las mejores corredoras master de México. Argentina Valdepeñas recorrió 42 kilómetros en el Maratón de Costa Rica y se coronó por segunda vez…

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JUANA GALÁN // GUERRILLA FIGHTER

“She was a guerrilla fighter of the Peninsular War (1808–1814) who took to the street to fight against the French cavalry that tried to pass through the town of Valdepeñas. At twenty years old, she was considered the best informed woman of the village, because she worked in a strategic location, the first tavern in the village. in the Battle of Valdepeñas against Napoleon's troops, there was a lack of sufficient men to defend the village, so she encouraged women to go out and fight. Although Galán is usually depicted armed with a baton, one version has it that she smashed in the heads of the soldiers with her cast-iron stew pan. The other women poured hot water through the windows and boiling hot oil on the road.”