Lovers to history and the novels of great deeds gathered this Thursday in the Plaza del Salon Rico, to listen to the writer and veterinarian, Gonzalo Giner (Madrid, 1962), who transferred them to an interesting trip through their conference ‘Toledo 1212. The armies of the Navas’, the armies of the Navas, in which he deepened In the role that the city played in the battle that the reconquest dicked and changed the political course of medieval Europe.
Mayor Toledo, Carlos Velázquez, has inaugurated the second edition of the ‘Toledo cycle. Europe of Europe ‘, through which writers like Elvira Roca Barea will pass, Javier Sierra, Jesús Sánchez Adalid, Álvaro FáñeZo Julia Navarro. In addition, the main novelty of this meeting is that it will culminate with the delivery of a prize in a large gala.
The writer Elvira Roca Barea will offer the second conference of the II low historical novel cycle The title ‘Garcilaso: Weapons and Letters’. It will be on May 21 in San Pedro Mártir.
Velázquez has assured that this cycle is consolidated in the city Thanks to the interest of the Toledo in culture, «which is allowing us to tell the story where the history of the best writers in the country passed ». Thus, he also thanked the attendees to the Rico Salon, who opens as a new location, and also in a week in which “we have taken important steps, presenting the Governing Council to achieve that objective that unites us all”, such as being a European capital of culture.
The mayor has also highlighted the value of organizing a conference “in the middle of a square” such as the Rico Salon, which is “an example of the best that the Toledo consortium does in the recovery of our heritage and life spaces,” he said.
Finally, Velázquez recalled that this second edition will end “in the best way”, with an award and recognition of a whole race, to a great cultural, historical and heritage legacy of the historical novel of our country.
The secrets and protagonists
Gonzalo Giner, wrote his first novel in 2004, ‘The Fourth Alliance’who obtained great success, began his speech thanking the Consistory for the invitation, and has not hesitated to define Toledo as “a city that has many flavors and all very good”, to recognize that in the regional capital the novel ‘The Healing of Horses’ was born, which is already preparing the second part.
Next, the author of ‘The Rider of Silence’ (2011), set in the Renaissance, or ‘Loyalty Pact (2014)’, where he enters the Spanish Civil War, entered to talk about the true protagonists of this bloody battle: Alfonso VIII Castilla, Pedro II de Aragón and Sancho de Navarra, who with a cross army, defeated an Islamic contingent formed. by North African and Andalusian forces, directed by the Caliph Almohade, Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Nāsir.
