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The cypress of Silos and Gerardo Diego's sonnet

Santo Domingo de Silos, Sierra de la Demanda, Burgos

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The cypress of Silos and Gerardo Diego's sonnet

Curiosity · Santo Domingo de Silos, Sierra de la Demanda, Burgos

Santo Domingo de Silos

Image of Santo Domingo de Silos, not of the place itself.

In the south-west corner of the cloister grows a cypress of more than thirty metres and a century and a half of life. Gerardo Diego visited it in July 1924 and turned it into an upright fountain of shade and dream, one of the most recited sonnets in Spanish.

Photo: Ramon DE LA FUENTE (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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