El Cid passed Alarba
alarba.com 13 December 2006
On Sunday 17 December will be the presentation of the Camino del Cid in Alarba, who shall act in the Band of the council.
Alarba was one of the places we went the Cid on his way to exile in Valencia. Therefore, the town of Alarba as part of the Provincial de Zaragoza, also participates in the Camino del Cid consortium with other towns in the provinces of Zaragoza, Burgos, Soria, Guadalajara, Teruel, Castellón, Valencia and Alicante.
Alarba is on the hiking route that runs from Calatayud (Zaragoza) to Molina de Aragón (Guadalajara), starting from Ateca and crosses the Sierra de Pardos Daroca up to where it starts to find the way by road.
It has also been discovered in the pond Alarba, located just outside the village, a pond dating from that era and that is already part of one of the attractions Alarba. This is a raft of the Muslim era where the Cid camped and watered their horses.
In the website of the Camino del Cid can find more information about the various routes and in the council of Zaragoza .
As a curiosity of this initiative, apart from attractive routes are of course, highlight the logo of the Camino del Cid, which can be read "Ego Ruderico" which in Latin means "I, Rodrigo". So he signed the knight Rodrigo Diaz, El Cid. '
