Los Barruecos: Granite Boulders and a Fluxus Museum
Extremadura, Spain
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Los Barruecos: Granite Boulders and a Fluxus Museum
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Los Barruecos is a field of granite that has been weathering for millions of years into huge rounded boulders — bolos, with names like the Mushroom and the Treasure Rocks — sitting around a set of pools fourteen kilometres from Cáceres. In 1976 Wolf Vostell, a German artist of the Fluxus movement and a pioneer of installation and video art who had settled in Extremadura, put his museum in the old wool-washing works on the edge of the water. The publicity that generated is largely why the place was made a natural monument in February 1996.
Required Activities
1
of 5
Walk among the bolos — granite weathered over millions of years into free-standing rounded blocks
2
of 5
Go into the Museo Vostell Malpartida in the old wool-washing works on the waterside
3
of 5
Find out what Fluxus was, and what a German video-art pioneer was doing in Extremadura in 1976
4
of 5
Watch the white storks nesting on top of the granite bolos — one of the most important rock-nesting colonies in Europe, which got Malpartida named European village of the storks in 1997
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of 5
Work out the sequence: the museum brought the attention, and the attention brought the protection in 1996
Walk among the bolos — granite weathered over millions of years into free-standing rounded blocks
Go into the Museo Vostell Malpartida in the old wool-washing works on the waterside
Find out what Fluxus was, and what a German video-art pioneer was doing in Extremadura in 1976
Watch the white storks nesting on top of the granite bolos — one of the most important rock-nesting colonies in Europe, which got Malpartida named European village of the storks in 1997
Work out the sequence: the museum brought the attention, and the attention brought the protection in 1996
Before you go
There is no shade among the boulders and it gets extremely hot in summer.
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