Cívica, a strange abandoned village

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Halfway between Brihuega and Masegoso de Tajuña, in Guadalajara, Spain, there is this architectural whim, a mixture of nature and a man's hand: Don Aurelio, a priest from the nearby town of Valderrebollo, who after acquiring a property in the The same village was dedicated every day between 1950 and the seventies, with the help of gangs of neighbors from the nearby towns of Valderrebollo and Yela and always after the mass, to carve all kinds of passageways in the rock, ogival arches of medieval inspiration, balustrades and other curious shapes. They say that he went to work the Civic stone to make sun, rain or snow, but the final purpose of the work remains a mystery to this day.
What is certain is that this place on the edge of the road deserved the letters of a Nobel Prize. In his book New Journey to the Alcarria (1984) Camilo José Cela dedicates a few lines to this surrealist place, proof of the subtle fascination he exerts on the travelers who pass in front of him. To say the brief passage in the book, the teacher takes a beer on the spot, and in effect talking to the locals we discovered that the last thing that has been Civic is nothing more nor less than a roadside bar (formerly known as "the lame's bar »). This happened because Don Aurelio did not leave heirs and the property passed to other hands, and with it for other purposes, something more earthly for a place as hermetic and original as this one.