“Roads of Cervantes”, a virtual tour unprecedented – Aguasdigital.com

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The Minister of Education, Culture and Sport Spanish, Inigo Mendez de Vigo, during his speech at the presentation of “The routes of Cervantes”. EFE

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             “Roads of Cervantes”, a virtual tour unprecedented

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6/8/2016 9:40 (-6 GTM )

                Madrid, June 8 (EFE) .- What is being done in Spain to commemorate the fourth centenary of Cervantes is “exceptional” and “Roads of Cervantes” to Google “is an example only a click” said today the Spanish Minister of Education, Culture and Sports, Inigo Mendez de Vigo.
the minister participated in the presentation of this virtual project unprecedented nine institutions that have collaborated, including Efe Agency and involved one of the most complete samples “on line” by Miguel de Cervantes.
more than one shape files 18 virtual exhibitions that are “Roads of Cervantes” initiative launched by the Google Cultural Institute with the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport and which can be accessed free of charge, in Spanish and English, in g.co/LasRutasDeCervantes.
for the Minister of Culture, the project is an example of two alliances, the culture and technology and collaboration between institutions “have worked together to allow only a click have access to these wonders that keep their funds.”
more than a thousand files, including photographs, videos and virtual tours that make up the virtual sample “allow Cervantes is increasingly ours and most of all” in addition to the possibility of knowing more in its many facets.
Cervantes’ Don Quixote is just us, is many more things and one example is his life, which would be overcome, be better, and not always got it. “
in his time had no success today, which itself enjoyed Lope de Vega,” but he kept fighting and finally, old and tired, smiled success, “said Mendez de Vigo, who recalled the phrase of the writer that” there are times when you have to be a road or an inn. Cervantes in his life was way and shows us many times that way. “
The Google initiative that contributes to the celebration of the fourth centenary of Cervantes” adds to the many that are being made “and contribute” to we want ourselves a little more. We do not appreciate enough what we have and what we do here. “
” Roads of Cervantes “makes available to many people” a life as rich and noble as that of Miguel de Cervantes and I am sure that if it looks , will be better and certainly much happier “, said the minister.
This interactive experience for life, work and times of Cervantes is curated by historian Alfredo Alvar. Member of the Real Academia de la Historia , is responsible for the first virtual biography of the author of Don Quixote, which has divided into six chapters that bring together a part of his life “with chronological or thematic either criteria.”
Each chapter has five elements, with five slides , “with thirty images that come from manuscripts, maps, drawings, paintings, tapestries, pictures etc are shown,” said Alvar.
The historian, who praised his work as “highly dynamic, chromatic and even important” , wished that the five minutes that recording, which has its own voice, “serve as a script, especially for high school teachers, for students and the general public.”
this cervantino walk you can see three exhibitions organized by Spanish Cultural Action in collaboration with the National Library and the Cervantes Institute.
Efe Agency has made an exceptional collection of images that are part of your graphic file and having to do with places where he lived and representations of the writer and his Quixote in the world
for the first time, the State Archives exhibit all existing documentation gathered cervantina. 204 original documents, involving a total of 1,200 digital images and representing 90 % of the documentation that exists on Cervantes.
the Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors has contributed to the works forming part of their exhibition “CervARES” with 45 pieces of contemporary artists, while the Casa Cervantes Museum Valladolid offers a virtual tour of the house of Valladolid in which the writer lived between 1604 and 1606.
“Roads of Cervantes” also it includes a virtual tour of the Museo Casa Natal de Cervantes.
the Royal Academy Spanish shows, through its collection, how has contributed throughout history to the publication and dissemination of the work of Cervantes and the Teatro Real adds with a discussion of the impact that the work of Cervantes has been in the opera.