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The Way of El Cid (Spanish: El Camino del Cid) is a cultural and tourist route that crosses Spain from the northwest to the southeast, from Castilla to the Mediterranean coast. It follows the history and the legend of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid Campeador , a medieval knight of the 11th century and one of Spain’s greatest characters.
Map of the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the 11th century, with the Lordship of El Cid. Towards the beginning of November 1092, the Campeador besieged the fortress, currently in the municipality of El Puig, fourteen kilometres from Valencia, surrendering it in mid-1093. [1]
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c. 1043 – 10 July 1099) was a Castilian knight and ruler in medieval Spain.Fighting both with Christian and Muslim armies during his lifetime, he earned the Arabic honorific as-Sayyid ("the Lord" or "the Master"), which would evolve into El Çid (Spanish: [el ˈθið], Old Spanish: [el ˈts̻id]), and the Spanish honorific El Campeador ("the Champion").
The name Cancún, Cancum or Cankun first appears on 18th-century maps. [7] In older English-language documents, the city's name is sometimes spelled Cancoon, an attempt to convey the sound of the name. [8] Cancún is derived from the Mayan name kàan kun, composed of kàan 'snake' and the verb kum ~ kun 'to swell, overfill'. [9]
While El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar) was away from Valencia in October 1092, the Valencians had gathered at the house of Ibn Jahhaf and agreed to appeal to Muhammad ibn Aisa to depose Yahya al-Qadir, sending the troops under Ibn Nasr, but Al-Qadir entrenched himself and sent an urgent message to El Cid.
A provision in its concession allowed it to build a spur to Playa del Carmen, [17] and in 2014, this spur, legally considered part of Highway 180D [1] but signaged as Highway 305D (El Tintal-Playa del Carmen), opened, shortening travel times between the state of Yucatán and Playa del Carmen. As a result of the opening of the new road, the toll ...
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The hill where El Cid camped for fifteen weeks according to the lay, is the place called Cerro Torrecid or Otero del Cid where the ruins that occupy us are located and it is a temporary fortified camp , rather than a castle proper, next to the one that would settle the tents that the Cid would take because according to the lay they were ...
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