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The name of the Dragon, appears in the book "History Gothica"
Archbishop Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada and also in the "Chronicle" of Alfonso X. July Way, author of "Memoirs of Guadarrama. History of the Discovery of mountains" says .... "It seems fair to assume that well might have been the long and jagged silhouette of the mountain now known as the Seven Peaks, which, dominating the road to the port of Valathome from a few kilometers to the northwest, had suggested to the fantasy
medieval man the image of the broken back of a dragon, the great animal as the taste of those times, it was represented in all the bestiary and codices of the monastery, and long present in the Visigoth iconography "
Another name under which it was known in the XIV-XV to Seven Peaks was" Peñas Cavallera.
Archbishop Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada and also in the "Chronicle" of Alfonso X. July Way, author of "Memoirs of Guadarrama. History of the Discovery of mountains" says .... "It seems fair to assume that well might have been the long and jagged silhouette of the mountain now known as the Seven Peaks, which, dominating the road to the port of Valathome from a few kilometers to the northwest, had suggested to the fantasy
medieval man the image of the broken back of a dragon, the great animal as the taste of those times, it was represented in all the bestiary and codices of the monastery, and long present in the Visigoth iconography "
Another name under which it was known in the XIV-XV to Seven Peaks was" Peñas Cavallera.
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