Fran Zabaleta: An 80-day trip by van to the interior of the most unknown Spain.
What happens when a writer takes his backpack, a van and goes on a trip?
Do you really know your country? That is what Fran Zabaleta, a historical novel writer, wondered, who one day decides to get to know Spain better. With that objective, buy a van adapted as a home and dedicates 80 days to touring the different corners of the country and telling about it on his blog. After the success of his posts, he decides to turn it into a book and Viaje al Interior emerges.
And you? Do you know your country? Perhaps after reading this article you have doubts.
Journey to the Interior
This non-fiction book is an approach to the history, geography and present from Spain, a much bigger, richer and more complex country than they always told us.
Spain overflows with heritage, archaeological, historical and cultural wealth, full of amazing corners, but also depopulated and lonely.
A deeply beautiful country that is worth exploring in depth, getting lost in its corners and diving into its extraordinary past.
Fran Zabaleta visited a long list of towns, villages, castles and fortresses, natural spaces and archaeological sitesHe spoke to people, investigated the stories they were told, and peered into a world that was curiously familiar and, at the same time, completely unfamiliar.
El viaje it travels an important part of Spain: Portugal, Extremadura, Andalusia, Murcia, Castilla-La Mancha and from there to Aragon and Castilla y León and the lower Aragon. In this book there are no coastal towns, there are Castilian, La Mancha, Andalusian towns, some barely populated, far from the tourist and industrial areas of the country.
The places where it passes This peculiar return to the interior of Spain in 80 days, you can consult them In the next link.
Journey to the Interior: A book that arises from a concern, which gives rise to a journey, which is told in a blog ... and ends up in bookstores.
Fran Zabaleta:
Zabaleta is documentary writer, editor and scriptwriter. He has worked as a text editor in Anaya, Santillana and Grazalema. As a screenwriter, he has been making documentaries for institutions, companies and television for twenty years (Or Portuguese way; A Coca, a besta ea festa; Arturo Noguerol; Homes de lei; Albeos, to terra soñeira; In memory of lume,etc.).
He has also adapted world literature classics for young people and is the author of non-fiction works such as 99 books to be more cultured, written in collaboration with Juan Ignacio Alonso (Martínez Roca 2011) and historical novel writer: The ash cross (Sum of Letters 2005), Medieval (Redelibros, 2011) or In hawk time (Grijalbo, 2016).
Journey inside it is his first foray into travel literature.