"El Grupo de los alemanes" y el paisaje de la Sierra de Guadarrama
2009; Asociación Española de Geografía; Issue: 51 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2605-3322
Autores Tópico(s)Sports and Physical Education Studies
ResumoBetween 1876 and 1936 excursionism had an important thrust in Sierra de Guadarrama, almost unknown by the people from Madrid until those dates. First, educators like Francisco Giner de los Rios and his new methods of teaching in contact with Nature. Then, scientists like Ignacio Bolivar, Salvador Calderon, with the precedent of Casiano de Prado, between some others distinguished researchers from those decades, connected mainly to the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, who made new ways to know and visit the Guadarrama. Also sports societies were created, like Real Sociedad Alpina Penalara, Sociedad Militar de Excursiones or the Club Alpino Espanol. In those years, an important group of German business men and profesionals were living in Madrid for different reasons. So, they were coming from a country with a new understanding of sports and leisure. These people saw in the Guadarrama a perfect place to practice sky and alpinism, and they showed to the Madrid society these new activities.
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