Saturday, January 16, 2021

"A village with their own dialect and far from everything"

 

"From Fascinating Spain comes ‘San Martín de Trevejo, the village in Extremadura where Asturian (sic) is spoken’.

It begins ‘This is possibly the most isolated town in Spain, located in the Sierra de Gata and bordering Salamanca and Portugal. This geographical isolation may explain why it has an old town far from all the stereotypes of Extremadura.

It also conserves its own dialect, A Fala, which has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest…""

(Found using the excellent weekly news service Business Over Tapas.)


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