Cuenca Quotes

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Racially they are castellaños (people living in Cuenca) - Castilians-which in turn means that their bloodstreams carry an intriguing mixture of Celtic, Iberian, Roman, German, and Moorish characteristics with a sprinkling of Jewish and Gypsy to round matters out. In Fact, Conquenses have a tendency to long straight noses and rather elongated faces, and as children they tend to be blondish, though like so many Spaniards, their hair darkens as they grow older. .....They tend to be poor, generous, polite and very jolly, and they have a very high opinion of themselves, which I must confess I share.”
― Fernando Zóbel, Cuenca; sketchbook of a Spanish hill town

“La morlaquía presume de su ascendencia española y se resiente como el indio.”
― Issa Aguilar Jara, Con M de mote se escribe mojigata