THE LAKE FROM SANABRIA

THE LAKE FROM SANABRIA Welcome to the history, welcome to the legend, welcome to Zamora. Come with us and listen to very old secrets, amazing adventures and beautiful princesses. And today: THE LAKE FROM SANABRIA. Throught this legend you will know the origin of the huge lake which is in Sanabria. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… People say that it was a rainy day, it was windy and it was very, very cold. When a poor girl who was a pilgrim walking with a cane arrived in the village of Valverde de Lucerna asking for food. But no one attended her, except some women who were baking bread in the bakery. They allowed her to enter the oven room so that he could shelter from the intense cold and satisfy his hunger with some bread. Suddenly, the girl turned out to be a witch, she decided to punish the people for their lack of charity. The witch told the women in the bakery that they had to go to the mountains, because she was going to destroy the village with water. Then the witch stuck his cane into the ground saying: “Here I dig my cane and and water will gush out. Here I dig my cane and the water will destroy the town.” The water gushed out, flooding the whole town of Valverde de Lucerna with the houses and the people. And that lovely valley was now a lake. Only the bakery was saved, and you can see it if you go to the lake, it is the small island which is in the water. The people from the village couldn´t even remove the two bells from the church. And this is these are the bells that good people can hear ringing from the bottom of the waters on the night of San Juan, the 24th of June, every year. ………………………………………………………………………………………… This was our legend today, THE LAKE FROM SANABRIA. Come to Zamora and live your own legend.