Ruta Del Rio De La Toba

Had a dilemma this morning. Toffee enquired if I would like to join him, Don Duende & Señora Comecocos on a gentle stroll. A gentle stroll, hummmm. They planned to take a mountainous walk along the Ruta del rio de la Toba from Guajar Alto to Guajar Faraguit. My idea of a gentle stroll is a 5 minute wander around the estate not a 3 hour hike in the mountains. I tactfully declined using the excuse that I had to check the olives. We they returned they were quite ecstatic, fantastic views, stunning scenery. No mention of exhausting. The olives are fine.

Factoid: The Time Before 700. Spain has a long and unique history and the oldest historical findings dates back to about 30000 to 50000 b.c. Among the most important remains of this period are the caves Cova Negra (Játiva) and Piñar (Granada). The Iberian population are thought to have arrived from north Africa and to settle in the south of Spain. The next important invasion came when Celtic tribes by 1200 b.c. entered the peninsula from the north. The Celts mixed up with the Iberians and generated the Celt-Iberian race. By 1100 b.c. Phoenicians and Greeks arrived to the peninsula and founded colonies in the southern Spain, along the Mediterranean coast. During the Punic Wars between Rome and Carthago, Carthaginians invaded Spain and conquered large parts of it.

The Romans entered Spain defeating the Carthaginians, who had settled mainly in the eastern parts of Spain, in Ibiza and Cartagena. In a short period of time the Romans ended up conquering the entire peninsula. Spain became an important part of the Roman empire and the Roman culture and language made a great influence within the Iberian Peninsula.
In 409, when the Roman empire started to fall, Gothic tribes invaded the peninsula and established their kingdom in 419.