We find no better way to start our blog than with our ORIGEN, remembering the people and the moment it all started...
50 years ago...
"That July 21 was marked in our minds by important events. We arrived in Lires, the astronauts also stepped on the Moon for the first time. The next day, Prince John Charles was appointed future king of Spain.
For the world this was a historic event, for us it increases its value by adding it to our own history.
We lived in Valladolid, someone told us about a farmhouse that in collaboration with Information and Tourism was offered to spend a great holiday sharing a family life with the owners of the house.
We decided to write to Lires. We contacted D. Lorenzo, the priest who treated us with all cordiality by informing us of what was there. In his letter he said, "We didn't know any more."
We came to Lires a little confused, not knowing where we were going to spend 4 or 5 days or so, but those people we didn't know about, got so into our lives in such a way that they could no longer get out of them.
D. Lorenzo took us to Raúl and Maria's house, wonderful people who gave themselves up without barriers, and those few days we thought we would pass in Lires, that little town that didn't come on the map became three weeks, the maximum we could miss our work.
That was the beginning of a long history that lasted for 25 long years. Our friendship has grown and our families have grown. Now it is not just us who come to Lires to share our holidays with Raúl and Maria, now it is also their children and our children, their grandchildren and our grandchildren.
Now they are also our brothers and their children and lots of friends who have been taken away from our advice attracted by our happy and beautiful testimonies that we live in Lires year after year.
Now Lires is no longer that little town that didn't come on the map. Now Lires come on the map and is also in the mind of many people who live in almost all of Spain with the illusion of spending a holiday on this beautiful land that attracts as a magnet those who like to enjoy nature.
For those of the place we are the grandparents tourists of the village and it is true, for we were the first to see in Lires, while the first astronauts arrived on the Moon 25 years ago. "
Text written by the Verdura Family on July 21, 1994
