Driving from Andorra to Calanda. A-1407 Aragón, Spain.
Andorra is a town and municipality of Teruel province in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. (It should not be confused with the Principality of Andorra or its capital, Andorra la Vella.)
In 2015 the municipality, which covers an area of 141.36 km², had 8,065 inhabitants, giving it a population density of 57 inhabitants per km².
Andorra is the capital of the Aragonese comarca of Andorra-Sierra de Arcos and is located in a region where there is much mining activity.
The town's patron saint is St Macarius.
Calanda is a town in the province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain. It lies on the southern fringe of the Ebro river basin, at the confluence of the Rivers Guadalope and Guadalopillo.
The climate is transitional between Mediterranean and Continental.
The local economy is based upon agriculture, especially the cultivation of peaches and olives, both of which have Protected Designation of Origin status: Melocotón de Calanda in the case of the peach production and Aceite del Bajo Aragón for the olive oil. Other agricultural products are almonds and other fruits as well as some cereals.
Calanda is the birthplace of Spanish film director Luis Buñuel.
Buñuel and Surrealism: Revolt Into Love
In this commissioned video essay, filmmaker and academic Cristina Álvarez López explores the distinctive cinematic experiments that first announced Buñuel’s provocative filmmaking to the world.
Emerging from the core of the Surrealist movement of 1930s Paris, collaborating closely with Salvador Dalí, this period saw Buñuel produce essential works of early cinema whose iconic images remain both startling and deeply original.
Approaching these films in a fittingly poetic manner, López decodes their images to understand the classic Surrealist ideas of revolution and mad love; passionate and explosive elements which this essay film interprets beneath the sounds of ancient drumming rituals from Buñuel's Spanish hometown of Calanda.
Calanda in Region Bajo Aragón of Teruel with wheelchair and handbike
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We discovered Calanda in the region of Bajo Aragón in the Province of Teruel with wheelchair enjoying places and activities accessible.
In our tour of the most beautiful and accessible places with wheelchairs and handbike of the province of Teruel, we visited the region of Bajo Aragón to visit Calanda, where the illustrious film director Luis Buñuel was born and where the Peach of Calanda is produced, One of the best in the world or the oil of Bajo Aragón, another Denomination of Origin that I love. We will discover all these places comfortably seated in our wheelchair.
We will meet Buñuel in the Buñuel Center of Calanda, we will enter one of the refrigerators that were used until the XVII century, we will enter a field of Peaches of Calanda and we will know all its production process.
We will enjoy the good gastronomy in the Bar Iris de Castelserás and the Restaurant Los Almendros de Calanda and sleep in an adapted apartment in the town of Torrevelilla, El Pajar de Serred.
Finally, we will enjoy a kayak trip through the Estanca de Alcañiz and we will be thrilled by a beautiful sunset while having dinner in good company.
All these activities, as you can see in the video I have trained and enjoyed personally for what I recommend.
You have more information in the Guide to Accessibility of this trip, made by me and you can download for free if you subscribe to the monthly newsletter.
As always I leave more information about my trip through the Province of Teruel with wheelchair and handbike. Next week we will publish the last part of my trip through the Comarca del Bajo Aragón.
Thanks for joining me.
Vagina Dentata Organ - The Triumph Of The Flesh - World Satanic Network Systems - 1984
Calanda is a small remote village in the Teruel province (situated in the center of the region of Aragon) where once a year, one of the most beautiful pagan festivals in the western world is celebrated.
Anyone can participate in La Rompida De La Hora in Calanda. The festival attracts thousands of people, the population of the village, and many hundreds of visitors from across Spain and the world.
For the public to participate in the festival, they must wear ornamental purple robes and hoods.
The robe and hood is similar in style to the Klu Klux Klan outfits that are worn by Klans-men in the southern states of America. Some participants to the festival have Carbine muskets attached to their persons, for show, not for use.
Elderly and young men and woman and children of all ages interpret the different rhythms when beating the drums.The groups gather around the local church, take up their drums, form bands spontaneously, and start producing more or less arbitrary rhythms.
This ritual jamming takes off at noon on Good Friday and ends exactly one day later on Easter Saturday. For twenty four hours and without pauses or orchestrated compositions, bands of drummers dwell through the streets of Calanda.
When one band meets another band, they start dueling, until all drummers find themselves in agreement with a certain rhythm. After their encounter and mutual jamming, the bands move on and prepare themselves for the next battle.
A masterful description of the deep experience of hearing and beating the drums at Calanda had been given by the film maker Luis Bunuel.
Toward noon on Good Friday the drummers gather in the main square opposite the church and wait there in total silence. When the first bell in the church tower begins to toll, a burst of sound, like a terrific thunderclap, electrifies the whole village. All the drums explode at the same instant. A sort of wild drunkenness breaks out among the players; they beat for two hours until the procession forms, then it leaves the square. When two groups beating two different tempos meet at one of the village crosses, they engage in a duel which may last as long as an hour - or until the weaker group relents and keep the victor's rhythm. By the early hours of Saturday morning, the skin of the drums is stained with blood, through the beating hands belonging to villagers, and visitors. As the bell tolls the noon hour, the drums suddenly fall silent, but even after the rhythms of the daily life have been re-established, some villagers still speak in an oddly halting manner, an involuntary echo of the beating drums...
Jordi Vall's World Satanic Network Systems have released other recordings on vinyl which are all extremely rare:
I: VAGINA DENTATA ORGAN PRESENTS : MUSIC FOR THE HASHISHINS, IN MEMORIAM OF HASSAN-I-SABBAH. (TRAINED TO KILL/SEXUAL).
All you hear on both sides of this album is the wild growl of a real dog trained to kill. It's violent and cruel. A passionate, and desperate appeal to murder. I call it poetry without rhetoric.
In 1984, Spanish TV invited Derek Jarman, Psychic TV and Vagina Dentata Organ to perform on a live TV programme in Madrid called 'La Eldad De Oro'.
We all had live interviews. Derek showed his short films, Psychic TV played a long live set together with monumental videos on magick occultism.
At the end of the two hours I (Vagina Dentata Organ) closed the night performing 'Music For Hashishins', on an emulator, with sixteen real, very nervous Alsatian dogs tied on a leash to the stage. At the same time I destroyed three large paintings by Casademont - a well-known Catalan artist - with a market value of 6,000 pesos.
I slashed the paintings with with two long iron scimitars with great effect, because hidden behind each canvas we hanged small plastic blood-bags that got splattered all over the place.
Pandemonium broke loose. It was the end of this arts TV programme.
Next day there was an outcry on the Spanish national press. We were accused of violence and obscenity.
Right-wing politicians put pressure on the state run Spanish TV, and 'La Eldad De Oro' was closed down for ever.
II: THE LAST SUPPER, THE REVEREND JIM JONES IN PERSON.
I got the tapes through Monte Cazzaza in California, and Genesis P-Orridge in London. It's the live recordings of the last moments of life while they are drinking poison and dying at the Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. Over nine hundred men, women and children died. It's a picture-disc with graphic photos of dead bodies from the massacre. For sure, this is the greatest rock and roll record ever made.
III: VAGINA DENTATA ORGAN WITH THE PAGAN DRUMS OF CALANDA. (THE TRIUMPH OF THE FLESH).
We recorded the live sound and made this unique picture-disc. As a personal tribute to Calanda's blood scented nights. About thirty copies only of this picture disc album, contain encapsulated freeze-dried, sterilised human bloodstains, from my (Vagina Dentata Organ) ripped flesh.
Vicenç Altaió: «M’ha tocat organitzar molts funerals de la nostra cultura»
Producció i edició: Morrosko Vila-San-Juan
Entrevista: Albert Forns
El pis del poeta Vicenç Altaió –o potser hauríem de dir «la Casa museu Altaió»– és una espècie de cova dels quaranta lladres al tocar de la Rambla, amb les parets plenes de milers de llibres, però també d’obres d’art, escultures, poemes objecte i tota mena de testimonis i records de dècades de contacte i amistat amb els grans noms de la cultura catalana. L’hem visitat perquè ens parli d’alguns d’aquests grans noms del segle XX amb els que va tenir la sort de conviure i col·laborar, com JV Foix, Joan Brossa, Josep Palau i Fabre, Perejaume, Antoni Tàpies i Albert Serra:
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Aragon ( or , Spanish and Aragonese: Aragón [aɾaˈɣon], Catalan: Aragó [əɾəˈɣo]) is an autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. Located in northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces (from north to south): Huesca, Zaragoza, and Teruel. Its capital is Zaragoza (also called Saragossa in English). The current Statute of Autonomy declares Aragon a historic nationality of Spain.
Covering an area of 47720 km2 (18420 sq mi), the region's terrain ranges diversely from permanent glaciers to verdant valleys, rich pasture lands and orchards, through to the arid steppe plains of the central lowlands. Aragon is home to many rivers—most notably, the river Ebro, Spain's largest river in volume, which runs west-east across the entire region through the province of Zaragoza. It is also home to the highest mountains of the Pyrenees.
As of January 2016, the population of Aragon was 1308563, with over half of it living in its capital city, Zaragoza. During the same year, the economy of Aragon generates a GDP of €34687 million, which represents 3.1% of Spain's national GDP, and is currently 6th in per capita production behind Madrid, Basque Country, Navarre, Catalonia and La Rioja.In addition to its three provinces, Aragon is subdivided into 33 comarcas or counties. All comarcas of Aragon have a rich geopolitical and cultural history from its pre-Roman, Celtic and Roman days, and four centuries of Islamic period as Marca Superior of Al-Andalus or kingdom (or taifa) of Saraqusta, and as lands that once belonged to the Frankish Marca Hispanica, counties that later formed the Kingdom of Aragon and eventually the empire or Crown of Aragon.
El montaje cinematográfico y la escritura por la montadora francesa Anita Fernández
Trayectoria de la montadora y escritora francesa Anita Fernández a través de relatos y anécdotas de sus trabajos con Juan Luís Buñuel, Chris Marker o su estancia en Guinea Bissau.
Presenta su libro uno de sus libros traducidos al castellano Pol-Arthur :
Encuentro organizado por la librería Re-Read Diputación de Barcelona en junio del 2018