To keep reading
The villages wrote themselves, too
An interview with a grandfather, a photograph with names, the memory of a shop. Local associations and magazines kept stories that let us know the territory from within.
Many pages grew from the work of residents who asked questions and wrote before those memories disappeared. Some still look like the earliest websites. Take your time going in.
Ablanque’s magazine · El Hortezano
El Hortezano Cultural Association began publishing it in 2000. The provincial library holds its reference. The old GeoCities website links pages from issue 5, still awaiting recovery and reading. Open the historical archive →
El Picazo · El Recuenco
ACAR’s website keeps articles, old photographs and part of its former website. The historical noticeboard links issues from 2006, 2007 and 2012. Open the historical archive →
Solana · journeys through Guadalajara
Articles about El Recuenco, Peñalén, Huertapelayo, Villanueva de Alcorón and Zaorejas survive. They describe journeys of their time: services, figures and some interpretations need checking before being used as current information.
Hontanar · Alustante
Interviews with residents, photographs, mills, bells and village life. Its historical archive links many old issues; the magazine is still published. Open the historical archive →
Aguaspeña · Checa
Family lives, shepherding, women, shops, celebrations and memories of the war. Its digital collection begins in 1993.
Abarca · Alto Tajo villages
The territory’s associations publish research and memories from several villages. Digitised issues include number 6, from 2024.
Rehalda · Comunidad de Albarracín
History, ethnology and landscape of the neighbouring mountains. Some articles follow links with Molina and Sierra Molina; others concern a different territory.
El Torrejón · Traíd
Traíd’s website keeps two complete issues from 2004 and two covers. They include residents’ accounts, photographs, ovens and a tree-planting day.
Mansiegona · Masegosa and Serranía de Cuenca
Its website brings together the contents of nineteen issues. A doorway into the Serranía’s villages: paths, trades, history and memory. The contents let you locate articles; they do not mean every complete issue is available.
Alkalathem · studies of the territory
It offers PDF issues and studies of Alto Tajo places, including Villanueva de Alcorón. Its scope also covers other villages: follow the location of each article.
Other open doors
Nuestro rollo, from Ciruelos del Pinar, began publication in 1997. A Museo Cerralbo record cites José Manuel Valles Garrido’s article about an altarpiece from the village, published in 2013. That piece continues in the history of Ciruelos. The original article still awaits consultation.
The old Huertapelayo website, created by Juan José Estrada Martínez, keeps local history, songs and bibliography. Its May songs continue in The apron inside out. Boletín de los Amigos del Museo de Guadalajara 9 includes Koldo Colomo Castro and Marta Embid Ruiz’s study of two stelae reused in village houses.
The old photographs gallery from El Recuenco brings together images contributed by residents. ACAR also keeps María José Sánchez Moreno’s study of the glassmakers: another way of seeing the village through its former work.
When a link disappears, another door sometimes remains. Web Archive keeps issues 2 and 3 of Mansiegona. These are complete issues recovered from the former website.
La Encomienda de Peñalén, from the Asociación de Amigos de Peñalén, left traces that let us recover some of its subjects, although we have not located a digital collection. José Ramón López de los Mozos’s study of the 1953 performance cites issue 6, from August 2015.
El Pipirigallo is another lead in Peralejos de las Truchas. The Asociación de Amigos de Peralejos includes republishing it among its aims. We do not yet link a complete recovered collection.
Children wrote, too. In the Revista Escolar Digital de la Comarca de Molina de Aragón, Alba, Noelia and Violeta wrote in 2004 about their school in Poveda, outings and celebrations shared with Villanueva de Alcorón. It is a window into that school year, in their own voices.
Setiles’s website keeps an article from Sexmas about the mock councils of carnival. The magazine’s old site is not always available, but its contributions left traces on other pages.
A 2009 issue of Labros offers a way into another residents’ magazine. The issue is a scanned reproduction; it preserves children’s games, theatre and local memory. One of its stories continues in An old pack of cards, a branch.
In Los Ojos de la tierra, Yolanda Temprado tells of her return to Armallones and her later projects: another voice to understand how people keep living and building in the territory.
Jenaro Iritia’s articles in El Diario Rural look at village life today: services, housing, new arrivals and decisions affecting their future.
In the libraries
The Biblioteca Virtual de Castilla-La Mancha lets you search for magazines such as Cuadernos de Etnología de Guadalajara and Wad-Al-Hayara. Their articles open other paths towards archives and the history of places.
Sonia Jodra’s study, La prensa en Guadalajara (1975–2012), helps trace publications such as Tierra Molinesa and Paramera. Finding a reference does not mean every issue is digitised.
Some of these readings continue in What fits on a roof tile, The women who also told the village’s story and The war that entered people’s homes.