The Mistery of Belicena Villca
Barely twelve hours after he left the cave , the Noyo Noso understood that Godo would no longer return and decided to notify the Count of Tarseval ; He then said goodbye to the Vraya , descended from Cerro Calendaria , and headed towards the bank of the Odiel , where the Lords of Tharsis kept a small boat for similar cases : an hour later he jumped ashore at two kilometers from the Manor House . This is how the Count of Tarseval learned that his son Godo had been kidnapped by the Golen .
If one day you decide to visit Huelva , dear Dr . Siegnagel , surely you will want to know the Gruta de las Maravillas and the Ruins of the Templar Castle , in Aracena . To do this , take the road that passes through Valverde del Camino , very close to the ancient site of the House of Tharsis , and goes as far as Zalamea la Real ; there it is necessary to bifurcate for a secondary road that goes up to the Rio Tinto Mines , which were exploited in remote times by the Iberians , and twenty kilometers later it reaches Aracena . Certainly , there is no touristic reason that justifies taking another path , unless you want to travel on better roads and continue in Zalamea la Real to Jabugo , where it joins the wide route that goes from Lisbon to Seville and follow the ancient Roman route by which Bera and Birsha arrived . But if that ' s not the reason and you want to get into unnecessary trouble , then you can go down this last path and prepare to take a small dirt road , whose detour is about two kilometers after the bridge over the Odiel River . There it is necessary to drive with caution because the trail is usually neglected , if not completely impassable ; there are a couple of villages of uncertain name and some farms , not very prosperous , inhabited by people hostile to foreigners : if someone happens to go into those places he must be ready for anything because no help can be expected from its villagers ; seems like a lie , but seven hundred years later the fear of what happened in the moments that I am referring still persists ! It is not an exaggeration , in the whole region a gloomy climate is perceived , threatening , which is accentuated as one advances towards the North ; and the villagers , increasingly hostile or downright aggressive , retain numerous family legends about what happened in the days of the House of Tharsis , although they take very good care in keeping them unknown to strangers . The fear lies in the possibility that history will repeat itself , that the terrible punishment of those days will fall again on the country . That is why there is no need to engage in conversation with them , much less asking a specific question about the past : that would be a suicide ; after shuddering with terror , the respondent would undoubtedly fly into a rage and would attract other villagers with his screams ; and then , if he doesn ' t get to escape in time , he would be attacked , by all of them together and would be lucky if he manages to save his life .
After traveling about eighteen kilometers , very close to Aracena , you reach a tiny elevated valley , located in the heart of the Sierra de Aracena . There is a village there that you have to go through very quickly to avoid children ' s stones or worse ; It is a fifteenth century town and it does not seem to have evolved a lot since then : most houses are of stone , with openings masked in axworked wood , and uneven slate roofs ; and many of these houses are uninhabited , some totally destroyed , showing that increasing decline and depopulation affects the village , and that only the tenacity of the most ancient has prevented their extinction . Its name , " Tar ", was imposed on it at that time and constitutes a kind of curse for the settlers , who did never succeed in replacing it with another name due to the persistence it has among the inhabitants of neighboring villages . The origin of the name is two kilometers
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