The legend of the mountain of La Maliciosa painted by Velazquez

When we go to a museum or an art exhibition, we have often asked ourselves what is behind what we see .What did the painter mean? Who were the people portrayed? Where are the landscapes that we observe? In the magnificent painting of Velazquez «Prince Baltasar Carlos on horseback» we see a landscape in the background, it is the Sierra del Guadarrama .In the highlights a peak that we want to tell you something : the legend of the mountain of La Maliciosa painted by Velazquez

The legend of the mountain of La Maliciosa painted by Velazquez

Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (Sevilla 1599-Madrid 1660), I capture in many of his works the landscapes of the surroundings of Madrid and especially of the Sierra del Guadarrama, so we see it in paintings such as «The jester Don Diego de Acedo , "El Primo" "," Felipe IV on horseback "or" Queen Elizabeth of France on horseback ".In the above-mentioned painting of the " Prince Baltasar Carlos on horseback "painted in 1635, we see a specific peak: La Maliciosa.

In the Central System, not far from Madrid, is the Sierra del Guadarrama and in it one of its highest mountains (2,227 meters) is La Maliciosa.Muchos think that the name is related to the difficulty that the montaneros find to reach the top by the steepest slope.In the book 101 CURIOSITIES OF THE HISTORY OF THE SIERRA DE GUADARRAMA (which you can't miss it) , they explain that the origin of the name comes from a legend .

The legend of the mountain of La Maliciosa painted by Velazquez

La Maliciosa is currently a bare granitic rock , without practically no vegetation.The legend explains that this was not always the case.It tells that, in the high of the mountain there was a vergel , an authentic garden with an orchard and everything.s with plenty of water.The surrounding people saw him but no matter how hard they tried he couldn't access the .Only a witch from a nearby town knew how to do it and enjoyed the fruits of the fantastic garden.The woman was known as the evil one .A group of neighbors decided to follow her to see how she reached the top The witch, upon realizing, amount in colera , summoned the darker powers and declared a dreadful fire that ended the vergel and I leave the mountain completely empty of vegetation.Since then La Maligna is simply a bare granite rock.

The legend of the mountain of La Maliciosa painted by Velazquez

If you liked this story and want to know other legends, do not miss the article about the Scottish legend of the blue men of the Minch.

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