The Mountain Chain That Got Its Name From a Tragic Love Story

The mythical legend of the Pyrenees

The Pyrenees is a massive, icy, and inaccessible mountain chain spread across an almost 500 kilometres long belt, from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic ocean in the northernmost borders of Spain in between freezing rivers, steep mountainsides, and valleys whose heart beats in a totally different manner compared to other places. It beats in a rhythm that elsewhere disappeared long ago. Its peaks look to Europe from above with fulfilment, dignity, and pride, pride in its greatness and its past.

For centuries, the Pyrenees were capturing and enclosing the Iberian peninsula, isolating it from the outside world. But everything depends on how you perceive and experience it, it also works as a door with access to the rest of the continent and the entire world. Nevertheless, the mountain chain still possesses a mystical aura.

The romantic bell towers rise over small villages, scattered all over the cordilleran belt from one end to the other. Like mermaids waiting to attract the traveller, their songs are distant and difficult to hear, but thanks to them, old traditions still survive, traditions from a real distant past when the Pyrenees were ruled by gods, nymphs, monsters, and magical beings.

The mountain became its own world, everything started and ended here and the myths explained a reality that we, until today, have failed to understand.

As a natural wall of separation, the Pyrenees part the Iberian peninsula from the rest of Europe. This region can be divided into three sections, the western, the central, and the oriental part. More than 100 million years ago the Iberian tectonic plate separated from the European, letting the Atlantic Ocean fill up the empty space that appeared between France and Spain.

Later on, the direction of the movements of the two plates reversed and the two landmasses kept approaching each other instead until they collided.

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