Talk:Sacromonte

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A Winner of the September 2005 West Dakota Prize

This entry, one of an unprecedented 52, has won the September 2005 West Dakota Prize, awarded for successfully employing the expression "legend states" in a complete sentence.

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I have added this information to supply a reference for a link in the Gospel of Barnabas entry TomHennell 3rd June 2005

Thanks Wetman, I have re-edited the entry around term "legend states", to discuss the context and function of the legend (although from pure cussedness, I have retained the term itself). TomHennell 13th Jan 2006 TomHennell 11:39, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gitanos

Isn't Sacromonte an area heavy with Gitanos excelling in Flamenco? --Error 01:11, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gypsy Neighborhood?

I came to this page because I am in the process of planning a trip to Spain. Most of what I've read about the Sacromonte is that it is a gypsy neighborhood. The web site for the Centro de Interpretación del Sacromonte is at www.sacromontegranada.com. This seems that this is clearly not an Abbey. Are there perhaps two things nearby with the same name? Is there an article for the Sacromonte Gypsy Neighborhood? Perhaps we need a disambiguation page, or is this article just completely off base? --Et764 03:46, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

It would be very useful to have photographs of the Sacromonte, the abbey and the hill slopes around it. (there are lots on the web, but it is difficult to assess whether they are copyright). If you are going on a trip, perhaps you could attach some of your own.

Caves, legend, Abbey, fiesta, and gitanos are all interlinked - roughly in that sequence. I don't think that any ambiguity is created by covering them all in one entry. I had though of a separate entry for the "Lead Books" and the debate around their origins, but reckoned that most people interested would search on "Saromonte" for them anyway.

by all means expand the entry with relation to the gitanos. I should warn you that the history section on the site you mention: http://www.sacromontegranada.com, is not altogether reliable. The caves were certainly unoccupied in the XVIth century, when the lead books were first found, the gitano presence is therefore later (and related to the XVIIth century founding of the fiesta). Nor were there communities of blacks, muslims or jews anywhere near Granada in the late XVIth century, as all had been expelled after 1569. TomHennell 08:36, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. The site I linked was one that was mentioned in my guidebook. I do plan on taking pictures while I'm there that I will attach to this article. Most sources I've seen about Sacromonte say very little about the abby, and a lot more about the cave dwellings. It seems that this article should reflect that, or maybe split the Abbey off into a separate page.