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Sustainable Landscapes of Ames: As Cortes

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Cultural heritage entities that you can find in the area.

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San Juan Parish Church
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This beautiful, architectural parish stands out because the church is of a Latin style and its construction extended from the beginning of the 18th century until the second half of the 19th century. The main chapel was completed in 1719, the sacristy was built in 1739, and the main body was completed in the 19th century, as was the Baroque style tower. There is also a gallery and a loft integrated inside the walls of the church.
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Dominic Iglesias Rodriguez, Marcos Granja Grille · 13 junio 2017 22:49


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Natural Water Spring
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As Cortes is well known for its natural water spring. It is situated next to a roundabout and is very visible. People visit there from all over to refill their bottles with fresh drinkable water. In the past, it was also where clothes were washed.
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Agro do Muiño Primary School
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It opened its doors on the 10th of September 2007. The school has about 550 students. They are currently building three new classrooms to accommodate the growing Ames population.
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Water Treatment Plant
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Country Path
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This country path is a place where people can walk and ride their bikes, and families can walk their dogs. The country path starts in Bertamiráns and continues to the treatment plant.
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Agro do Muiño Residential Housing Development
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It is a new housing development (with more than 100 houses) which are situated next to the river Sar. There is a road leading from the near town of Bertamirans to the water treatment plant behind the development which is regularly used for walking and cycling. In the past, this area has been prone to flooding due to heavy rain.
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The San Juan church
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It has two buildings inside the enclosure. The first is where the children go to learn the prayers, etc. All this to be able to do communion, confirmation, etc. This building consists of about four rooms with chairs and tables where children work. The other building is where the mass is done. This one has two entries. The most used (the small one) is the one that has the water sold. The other is at the bottom of the church, under the stage where there are more benches, the organ and the two older singers. These two sing typical songs and old, always, but lately there is a chorus of younger children who usually sing something more modern accompanied by some guitarist. The room is divided into two ileras of benches with a half-block and at the end the altar where the priest Jose Luis gives the Mass. Behind the altar is another room where the priest has his clothes, points to new children who want to do the communion, baptisms, etc.
 

Lucía González Ariza, niko pato ces · 20 junio 2017 21:49


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The cementery
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It is located in front of the church. Above this is a poster that says "Year 1864 JUAN BUENO BUENO, parish priest, postum homage of his parishioners for the construction of this cemetery". A century or so ago it was located next to the church, but the parish "Juan Bueno Bueno" decided to move it to the place where it is now due to the fact that it was a common grave of the civil war.
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The school "Agro do Muíño"
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It is a school that runs from children to sixth grade. It was opened in the year 2007. It is directed by the director Moncho and the deputy director Antonio, although the Director Moncho is going to judge. Nowadays, before so many children, new classrooms are being built. The school has two gyms, a covered patio, two outdoor patios, a dining room, a computer room that is shared by a kindergarten that works there for the moment, a music classroom, a library and many fixed classes for Each course. Part of it is the teachers' room and some office. Each year sixth-graders can choose to be a fancier in the library. This is to go to the library one day a week, to do what Isabel (the woman who runs the library) tells you to do, how to order books, cover them, fix things and label. A year there are many competitions, the Christmas post, the story, the riddle, etc. There are several festivals the carnival, the day of peace and the end of course.
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The washouse
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It is in front of the school and next to the house of the gypsies. Currently the laundry is not used, it is empty most of the year. Beside it is a small fountain with clean water to which many people from there goes. It has two buildings of three stones each.
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Juan Bueno Bueno
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Some people said that he was a good priest but others said that he was a dictator. His tomb is in the cemetery between his wife and his daughter(Sta. Antolina and Dna. Paquita).
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Rosalía de Castro
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She lived her first years here with her godmother Maria Francisca Martinez. She was born on February 24, 1837 and died on July 15, 1885. She was a Spanish poet and novelist who wrote both in Galician and Castilian. Considered among the great poets of Spanish literature of the nineteenth century and his best known work "Cantares Gallegos"
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The sewage treatment plant
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It is near the mill between two cornfields. It cleans the water of some residential areas like Sisalde and As Cortes. At school, there are sometimes outings to teach children how they work, their parts, etc.

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Saint Jaun
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This is a party organized by the inhabitants of the urbanization, they get together and between all buy the food, put music and light the home, which when low enough is starting to jump. Origin: According to the sacred texts, Zacharias ordered to light a bonfire to announce to his relatives the birth of his son, Juan Bautista, that coincided with the night of solstice of summer. To commemorate that date, the Christians of the Middle Ages lit large bonfires and celebrated various rites around them. It celebrates the night of the 23th June.

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The chorizo gastronomic festivity
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In the field of the party they are placed inflatable and tents where you can go to eat the fourteen of the seven (variable date). It celebrates on the 14th of Jully

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Palm Sunday
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It is a celebration that happens on Easter Sunday in Holy Week. Children who perform catechesis carry a figurine of a donkey or palm branches palmer and olive branchesuntil they reach a statue of Jesus on the cross where the branches are sold. It's an Catholicism religion.

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The Park
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It is a small park constituted by two swings, a slide, a thing to balance and two horses with the same use, but individual. At first, the floor of the park was small feet like the road, later put it in sand and as he did not like it ended up putting it with rubber and about a foot from the ground. In 2015-2016 they decided to make a door in the outer court of the school, so that the children could leave.

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The watermill
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He is abandoned or if he has owner no one knows. But it is in poor condition the herbs grow everywhere. If you pass the right walk you can see it by the Sar River. That area is particularly dirty, the stones have pieces of paper and even the trees. There is a sign a long time ago that indicates the fauna of the area, but now thanks to the conditions of the Sar there is nothing, or almost nothing of that.

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Fire
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In 2015 a fire was attempted just ten meters from the school and the first row of houses. The neighbors tried to stop him with the hoses, until the firemen arrived.

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The mass grave
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During the civil war, the dead were deposited in mass graves. This was in an excavation in which they went to the corpses. Currently there is one under the Ortoño cemetery.

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Civil war
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The civil war had an impact in Ortoño because de corpese barred in a common grave.

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The green path
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The path goes through the forest (part burned and part not). It has big chunks depending on the area where you are
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