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El Tormo Alto, en la Ciudad Encantada de Cuenca y el anagrama de la Sociedad Española de Geomorfología. Autor de la foto: L. Carcavilla (IGME).
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The professor, intellectual and naturalist Juan Giménez de Aguilar is remembered mainly by his great effort to defend historical and artistic heritage. However, Giménez de Aguilar developed an important task in nature conservation and protection, particularly of the Geological Heritage. This other activity has been almost forgotten, and nowadays hi...
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... una leyenda popular, el cadáver del caudillo lusitano Viriato fue incinerado en lo alto del "Tormo Alto", en la Ciudad Encantada de Cuenca en el año 138 A.C. No existe ninguna prueba docu- mental de que tal hecho sea cierto, así que el fundamento de este mito posiblemente haya que buscarlo más bien en el carácter de símbolo totémico que ocupa ese monolito en el imaginario popular español (Figuras 1 y 2). Es "...el menhir de los druidas, ó el dolmen del sacrificio...", tal y como lo calificó su descubridor científico, el Ingeniero de Minas Federico Botella (1875), que debió visitar este paraje como parte de sus trabajos para la Comisión del Mapa Geológico de España (Cortazar y Botella, 1875). ...
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