A literary and spiritual book that does not give up describing the monumental greatness of the walled city intermingling history, itinerary and singularities. We talk about ‘Ávila. The spiritual height ‘, the travel book written by the journalist, poet and essayist Carlos Aganzo and illustrated by the painter Ricardo Sánchez, who is part of the collection cities of World Heritage that has published Tintablanca and that this Thursday was presented in the Episcopus to the Abulense society.
Throughout more than 200 pages, distributed in ten chapters, the work reflos of the capital with a poetic dye of a high hyperrealism that perfectly connects with the texts.
In the words of the mayor, Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera, is “a small great work of art that collects with love, from the knowledge of our city Carlos Aganzo, the essence of Ávila.”
The author himself defined his work as «a book for travelers, not for tourists, so that the one who comes to this city stays with how wonderful it is. In this book there are a lot , of the Jews, the Moors and the Christians … all those avilas that you once know them, surely you see the city in another way ».
And, as he said, the book incorporates “all those visions and my experiences in Ávila, friends, all life” because it is a guide that “is very mine.” And writing is “very fresh, poetic, literary, has my part of a lifelong travel writer, but with that synthesis ability that characterizes journalists,” he said.
For his part, Ricardo Sánchez acknowledged that it is the “first work that I do in this concept and with these circumstances. Carlos is the one who has involved me throughout the project and at first I had a little panic, but I have started all the illustrations I had to do with the traveler’s face, not the artist, and I have tried to reproduce what I I felt ». He also said that to illustrate all these places he has mixed «different techniques, memories, my personal experiences of the past and the present, and above all thinking about the people who are going to visit the city, so that they have a good impression of color and the Ávila Luz and the texture of the stones, which is fundamental ».
My eyes, Roman Ciudad, Vetón territory, nine doors, two hearts, Juan and Teresa, Teresa and Juan, love follies in Santo Tomás, Adaja Va, slow current, the height of intelligence, bells at midnight, painted city, city sung and concord (and heterodoxy) were possible are the titles of the ten chapters in which the content of this book is distributed that is an invitation to travel to Ávila and enjoy it through its great values in fields such as the History, culture, heritage, religion, nature, spirit and politics, by the hand of their makers.
César Hernández, editor of Tintablanca, explained that “the heritage cities make up an interesting sum, to which we could give the value they have for how the book occurs and how it is illustrated.” He also announced that the next idea is to publish this collection in English.
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