{"id":53220,"date":"2023-09-27T23:23:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T21:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=53220"},"modified":"2024-09-27T00:06:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T22:06:42","slug":"a-fascinating-route-through-the-abandoned-town-of-tablate-and-the-anti-aircraft-guns-of-lanjaron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/09\/27\/a-fascinating-route-through-the-abandoned-town-of-tablate-and-the-anti-aircraft-guns-of-lanjaron\/","title":{"rendered":"A fascinating route through the abandoned town of Tablate and the anti-aircraft guns of Lanjar\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the south of Spain, specifically in the province of Granada, is the highest peak of the Iberian Peninsula: Mulhac\u00e9n.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/05\/18\/flak-18-in-the-battery-b-8-of-mount-san-pedro\/\">FlaK-18 in the Battery B-8 of Mount San Pedro<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/07\/19\/a-tour-of-the-old-defenses-of-the-spanish-city-of-ceuta-and-its-foghorn\/\">A tour of the old defenses of the Spanish city of Ceuta and its foghorn<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This mountain, located in the Sierra Nevada, has a height of 3,479 meters above sea level. <strong>The group of explorers from<\/strong> has headed there <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AventurasEntresierras\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aventuras Entresierras<\/a>, showing us along the way some curiosities that can be found in that part of eastern Andalusia. In this first part of its Operation Mulhac\u00e9n, <strong>Aventuras Entresierras travels through the depopulated area of Tablate<\/strong>, in the municipality of El Pinar (Granada), which had up to 400 residents in the 19th century, but which finally ended abandoned in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The second point on this route leads to Lanjar\u00f3n<\/strong> (Granada), a town famous for its springs and mineral water, but which also has an ideal tourist attraction for artillery fans: <a href=\"https:\/\/turismo.lanjaron.es\/descubre\/canones\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a route made up of four canyons<\/a>. Two of them are old pieces: a cannon used in the War of Independence against the French and an 18th century naval cannon, donated by the Navy. The other two cannons are <strong>pieces of anti-aircraft artillery from the 20th century<\/strong>, which you can see in the video (the video is in Spanish, you can activate the automatic English subtitles in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Operaci\u00f3n Mulhac\u00e9n [D\u00eda Previo]: Exploramos el poblado abandonado de Tablate.\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U2JL0gEd2AU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see some screenshots from the video here. We start with <strong>an aerial view of the depopulated Tablate<\/strong>. In the video you can see some of the buildings inside.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53218106246_36816eb796_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here we see <strong>the first of Lanjar\u00f3n's artillery cannons, a 90 mm M1<\/strong>, an American model from World War II. It is located next to the Lanjar\u00f3n River.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53218489769_a53a36913b_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, in the video we see this <strong>88 mm Trubia FT-44 cannon, the Spanish version of the FlaK-18<\/strong>, along with a mast with a Spanish Flag. The cannon is in the Mirador del Visillo and was donated by the Training and Doctrine Command (MADOC) of the Army to Lanjar\u00f3n in 2020. It is like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/05\/18\/flak-18-in-the-battery-b-8-of-mount-san-pedro\/\">one of the cannons preserved in the Battery of Monte San Pedro in La Coru\u00f1a<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53218489764_bafcfc79f5_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the south of Spain, specifically in the province of Granada, is the highest peak of the Iberian Peninsula: Mulhac\u00e9n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,19075],"tags":[16673,20231,1025,20229,20233,20230,11462,20228,10648],"class_list":["post-53220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-routes","tag-andalusia","tag-el-pinar","tag-granada","tag-lanjaron","tag-m1-90mm-anti-aircraft-gun","tag-mulhacen","tag-spain","tag-tablate","tag-trubia-ft-44"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}