(MAD) daily photo: April 2007

Saturday, 14 April 2007

Cars are leaving, monuments are staying.

Houses and monuments are looking at us, we are the kids who were born, are passing and dying. They are the attestors, surviving its creators...

Gate of Alcala, built in 1778 by Francesco Sabatini.

¿Madrid?... genesis

We have to go back to the IX century, the times of the Muslim Emir Mohamed I, to find the origin of the city of Madrid, born as Muslim fortress on the north shore of the Manzanares river were now raises the royal palace. Etymologically it comes from ‘Majerit’ and this word from the Arab ‘Mayrit’ that means ‘mother of waters’, at is turn the word ‘Mayrit’ is similar to the romance term ‘Matrič’ meaning ‘matrix’… in conclusion, Latin: Matric(em); Romance (spoken in Spain after Romans): Matrič; Arab: Mayrit; actual Spanish: Madrid. (internet fonts)