Barbadillo de Herreros North Live Cam

In the midst of all of this disaster, the War for Independence served as a testing ground for a new mode of military tactics: guerrilla warfare, inaugurated in the lands of Burgos by the brilliant Cura Merino and El Empecinado, and destined to enjoy unparalleled success throughout the contemporary age.

With the fires of the war against the French barely cooled, Spain began the effective transition from the Old Regime, based on privilege, to Liberalism, under the banner of the declaration of equality of all citizens before the law. Of course this change did not take place without its trauma. The most significant effects were first noted at the start of the reign of Isabel I (1833-1868), with the suppression of the ecclesiastic tithe and all of the privileges that affected the nobility, professional corporations – Concejo de la Mesta, Cabaña Real de Carreteros -, certain boards, and church bodies, and with the disentailment projects that had a significant effect in the years 1936-37 on all religious institutions, especially monastic communities.

Monks were suddenly expelled from the monasteries, their property expropriated and disentailed – put up for sale – and the cloister buildings abandoned to their fate, which in many cases meant definitive abandonment and subsequent ruin, as in the case of San Pedro de Arlanza, Santa María de Obarenes, and Santa María de Rioseco. In addition, communities of nuns, the Episcopal See, with its bishop and council, and the parishes, with their priests, remained standing, but were deprived of the tithe and the immense majority of their assets and income, becoming dependent in some cases on the profits from their work, in others on state allowances, and in general, on voluntary contributions from their followers.