Extremadura, besides its nature and cultural heritage, is
known, as well, for being a prolific land in adventurers.
In my opinion this is one of the first surges of immigration
more or less organized in Extremadura and it happens in the Middle Age driven
by the events of Cristobal Colon's trips.
In the late XV century due to the tracks stablished by Cristobal Colon, more than 8000 men and women from Extremadura threw themselves in the quest of adventure, fame and money. From all of them, we know barely a dozen of them that have left their names in history.
These persons that left the
places that saw them be borned, almost always driven by the search for better
life conditions, they were moved for the improvement of their social status.
Ambition and desperation create
a great binomia to force the leaving of their confort environment of a reagion
hit by the poverty.
Not all of them were lucky in
their pesonal challenge and, some of them, have written their names in history
because of the actions during their trips under the surname of
"Conquerors".
It is very curious that depending on the period, on the way
they arrived to the places and the outcome of the events, the naming of the
same action takes different names: Conquerors, globetrotter, adventurer or
inmigrant.
I consider that there has
been always two characterictics that differenciate the motivation of the trip:
the restlessness to know or the social neccesity. Today we can add to this the
need to buy trips to reassert our social status.
In Extremaduraexperiencias we
are focussed in the ones motivated by the first one: the restlessness to know.
Due to this, we prepare
experiences that go through the paths of our region, creating the ambient of
our ascendants, remembering the difficulties of our ancestors.
In our experiences we transmit
the restlessness of living without all the communication media that surrounds us
on our day to day life.
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