Many of the castles who pull our geography, in addition to its architectural heritage, which attracts many visitors, expects stories and legends that are subject to verification or not, give him a halo of secrets, which increases interest in their careful knowledge.
This is an impressive case Santa Castle -KatalinaV JanThe field is a protective fortification, strategically located on a hill that gives exciting views and where is the capital of Genens is separated. Gothic style, it was built between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and since 1965 it National tourist parador.
During the War of Independence, the castle was used as a stronghold of the Napoleonic troops, an activity that motivated the visit to the institution in 1970 of the General and Politics of the French language and politics Charles de GaulleInterested in documenting historical conflict.
One of the legends in which this construction is located as the main characters Omar and ZoraidMany years ago, Jan controlled a noble Omar, a man of great virtues and living in the castle. Omar, according to them, managed to marry a woman of extraordinary beauty called Zoraid. And they were very in love.
The tragic end
Happily married, one good day Omar left the fortress, as in other cases to go down to the city and solve some problems. He never returnedZoraida, worried, asked to look for it. They tracked the mountain and the city. Until they found Omar’s bloody body in a place near the castle.
The castle dressed in mourning, and Zoraida, who could not carry pain in her heart, wandered sadly and deserted. So far, one day they will not find their A lifeless body in the same place where they found that her husband had killedThe field and, says the end of the legend that at that time the water spring began to sprout in today’s place as A broken pipe fountainwater that was interpreted as Tears of ZoraidsField
Currently, both the castle and the source are visited and admired by grateful tourists who read about the legend with Omar and Zoraida. In fact, today they still say that there are nights when two figures appear, fully covered on the road to the castle.
