• Descending from Sierra de Miedes in the middle of the night

    According to El Cantar, El Cid and 300 horsemen marched across the sierra de Miedes on the ninth day of exile, at the perilous limit of the deadline established by the king to leave Alfonso’s ki...

    View more

  • The oaken woods of Corpes

    The name of the town, Robledo de Corpes, has led some scholars to locate the action of the episode in which El Cid’s daughters were beaten and abandoned by their husbands, the Infantes de Carri&...

    View more

  • The conquest of Castejón

    According to El Cantar de Mío Cid, El Cid made his camp upon the hill of Castejón after crossing the border between Castile and the taifa of Toledo, on the tenth night of exile. Next day...

    View more

  • The caves of Anguita

    The poet says that El Cid and his men rode down the river Jalón after leaving Castejón de Henares, continuing past the Anguita caves on their fifth day of their journey. The caves are vi...

    View more

  • A raid on Hita

    The poet of El Cantar de Mío Cid relates that Álvar Fáñez together with Álvar Álvarez, Álvar Salvadórez, Galín García and two hund...

    View more

  • Gallocanta, possibly one of the villages where El Cid set up his camp

    There are scholars who argue that El Cid set up his third camp in this village and that during the days he remained in the area he launched a ten-day campaign against the towns of Huesa del Com&uacute...

    View more

  • Sleeping on a site between Ariza and Cetina

    According to El Cantar de Mío Cid, El Cid and his men spent the fifteenth night of exile in a site situated somewhere between Ariza and Cetina. The presence of El Cid and his army caused a fear...

    View more

  • Torrecid

    El Cantar relates that El Cid passed Ateca on the sixteenth day of exile and camped on a hillock, out of the fortified city of Alcocer, which is now a vacant lot situated 3kms away from Ateca. El Cid ...

    View more

  • River Martín, Martín del Río

    According to El Cantar, El Cid launched a series of attacks immediately after setting up his camp in Poyo del Cid. The lines of the poem relate that the river Martín, that is, all the villages ...

    View more

  • Sleeping at Bronchales

    After the conquest of Valencia, El Cid is said to have sent an escort of more than one hundred horsemen to look for Jimena and his daughters, who were waiting at Medinaceli in the company of Ál...

    View more

Compartir