The immaterial routes: from Castilian to Ladino and Mediterranean music. Michel Thomas-Penette. Le Jeudi. 26 August 2010.
Monastère de San Millán de la Cogolla The discovery of immaterial heritage forms an essential part of the cultural routes: exploring how a festival, a tale, a language or a style of music has travelled Europe, revealing a shared identity. The Route of language “ The Route of the Castilian Language and its Expansion into the Mediterranean, the Route of the Sefardic Migrations ” is the first cultural route to be established on this basis. It all began in a monastery classed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1997: the monastery of SanMillán de la Cogolla in the Rioja. The Spanish route is based on the “ GlosesEmilianenses ” of San Millán from the eleventh century, recognised by numerous academics as containing the first written words of the Castilian language. The route is also based on a fifteenth-century novel written in what was to become a major literary language: Cervantes’ Don Quixote . It travels through the towns and cities which mark key st...