Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem.What makes me think and some topics on which I want more information is about the different orders that you mention Iacobus (Matilde Asensi) About military orders All this activity was going on without interruption for two hundred years. The gold remains were dragged to the agogas, or huge lakes that acted as laundries, where the golden metal was collected and cleaned. The released water descended furiously through seven aqueducts and, upon reaching Las Médulas, stranded in a network of galleries previously dug by slaves, caused large landslides and pierced the earth. The system used to pull the metal from the ground was the so-called montium ruin, which consisted of suddenly releasing large quantities of water from formidable reservoirs located at the highest points of the Aquilanos Mountains. One specific place in that Roman Hispania deserved all the scholar's attention: Las Médulas, from where the Romans obtained twenty thousand pounds of pure gold a year. In his grandiose Natural History, the Roman sage spoke of the huge mining operation carried out by the August Emperor in Hispania Citerior back at the dawn of our era. It also explains the Ruin Montium or short mined a mining system used by the Romans to obtain gold. Moment when describing Las Médulas, the biggest open pit gold mining of the roman empire. Interesting Topics to Remember and Research Montium Ruin in Las Médulas Strolling through the Jewish quarter today is imagining stories from the past. I greatly enjoyed the descriptions and setting of the Jewish quarter, since in my city, we have what was an important Jewish quarter until the expulsion by the Catholic Monarchs and that forms an area of tremendous beauty today.
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