Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/16

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Isla de Tabarca
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Fri Nov 16 02:38:07 2007
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Hola Luis, My apologies. I have a lot to learn about your part of the world.
Regards
Hoppy

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Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Isla de Tabarca


On 16/11/2007, at 10:21, G Hopkinson wrote:

> I see a lot of Sitges in there but much more old world
> remaining. Definitely on our list for our next visit to Catalonia.

Just two little ammedments:

- Tabarca (or Alicante, la comunitat valenci?, or els illes balears)   
is not Catalonia, althought there is a certain pancatalanism lately  
based in the similarity of the lenguage and claiming them as paysos  
catalans, which does not make very happy some other locals, and IMHO  
has no historic or etnographic sense as those almost always were  
separate kingdoms.

The Tabarca island is the only inhabited island of that side of the  
coast and it was been taken and left many times during the past  
centuries by the pirates as base to attack the nearby coast. At the  
end of XVIII century a group of 69 italian families where relocated  
by Carlos III there when the tunesians occuped an small island of  
same name, previously genevese, which btw changed the name of the  
island. So it's much closer to Italy than even any of Spain, either  
catal?, valenci?, alacant or whatever of the nearly coast :D

All the defensive buildings and most houses still up were built to  
guard it, and that was all up to almost now. Electricity and other  
modern services came up late, or even very late.

- I'm glad that many people is enjoying my recommendation to Nathan  
to visit such special place, much better, to me at least,  off season.



Saludos
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http://luis.imaginarymagnitude.net




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Replies: Reply from octabod at gmail.com (Luis Miguel Castañeda Navas) ([Leica] IMG: Isla de Tabarca)
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