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The Caballada and the boy king

Atienza, Serranía de Guadalajara, Guadalajara

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The Caballada and the boy king

Historical milestone · Atienza, Serranía de Guadalajara, Guadalajara

Image of Atienza, not of the place itself.

Tradition places in 1162 the flight of Alfonso VIII, then a child, taken out of Atienza by the town's muleteers disguised among their pack trains to save him from his pursuers. The confraternity of La Caballada recalls it every Whit Sunday.

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Photo: Pedro María Reyes Vizcaíno (CC BY-SA 2.5)

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