5 May, 2025 | News
On April 5 took place the inauguration of a new space in our castle. We are very proud to present “Goya in Bulbuente”, an exhibition space in the tower of the castle dedicated to the work of the great Aragonese artist Francisco de Goya. A permanent exhibition that will be expanded in the near future. Our desire is to turn the Castle of Bulbuente into a reference in the graphic work of the master Goya and in this way Bulbuente and our area will have a new cultural and tourist attraction.
For the inauguration we counted on the performance of the members of “Modern Baroque”, a group of dance and historical music, which enjoys a long trajectory and that, on this occasion, offered a recital focused on the music and dance of Goya’s time. Carlos González Martínez, on the harpsichord, interpreted several compositions by Aragonese composers, such as José de Nebra (born in Calatayud but with Borja ancestry), Joaquín Laseca or Ramón Ferreñac, together with those of other contemporaries of the genius of Fuendetodos, such as Joseph Haydn or Mozart. Inés Turmo Moreno, who, together with Carlos, is the main promoter of the group, led us, through dance, on a musical journey through the Spain of the 18th and early 19th centuries, in which Goya’s life unfolded.
The art historian Mr. Ricardo Centellas Salamero, responsible for cultural management in the Diputación Provincial de Zaragoza and manager of the Goya-Fuendetodos consortium, who has been decisively involved in the organization of the exhibition. Thanks to his help, several of Goya’s series of engravings have been able to reach Bulbuente, along with other works of art that, little by little, are decorating the rooms of this castle-palace.
D. Ricardo Centellas Salamero, spoke at length about the figure of the illustrious Aragonese painter and his work, framing it in his time and providing data of great interest. With respect to the exhibition that was inaugurated, he pointed out that it was a selection of the series of engravings dedicated to the “Tauromaquia”, of which, later, others belonging to more acquired series will be offered.
To see the exhibition, please call us, the schedules will vary from one time of the year to another.
27 Mar, 2025 | News
Do you like mysteries and castles, art thefts and symbols? Luis Zueco publishes “EL ESCALÓN 33”.
Madrid, 2012. Silvia enjoys a fairly quiet life; she works at the National Library, has a group of great friends and every night she loses herself in the pages of one of those old books she collects with devotion. Until one day she gets her hands on a mysterious manuscript that changes everything forever.
A SECRET AMONG MEDIEVAL CASTLES
When she realizes she is being hunted and her life is in danger, she enlists the help of Alex, a medieval castle expert, to help her decipher the riddle. Together they will travel through Spain in a frantic race while dodging art thieves, veteran cops and unscrupulous hitmen.
A HISTORICAL ENIGMA AT THRILLER PACE
Written in Luis Zueco’s fast-paced and unmistakable style, El escalón 33 takes us on a journey through medieval castles and shows us that, within the stones of their walls, the greatest secrets of history can be hidden.
3 Jan, 2025 | News
We start the new year with this interview by journalist Samuel Domínguez for “El Español”, where we take a look at the life of Luis Zueco. His childhood between Borja and Grisel Castle, his engineering studies in Zaragoza, his work in Madrid and his beginnings as a writer. To narrate how he left his life in the capital of Spain to return to Grisel to complete the restoration of the castle and enable it as tourist accommodation and how he repeated the process with the Castle-Palace of Bulbuente for 10 years. In addition, of course, to explain his literary career.
6 Nov, 2024 | News
Luis Zueco has just released his new novel, El mapa de un mundo nuevo, and we are honored to welcome him to Bodegas Borsao. This November 9th we will carry out a very special Borsao Experience limited to only 40 places: We will visit the new facilities. Luis Zueco will present us his new novel. We will taste our best wines with accompanying tapas. Time: from 11 am to 2 pm.
After the success of his previous publication, El tablero de la reina, Luis Zueco immerses us once again in a key period of Spanish history: the end of the reign of Isabella the Catholic. This novel narrates the years that forever changed the course of history, when every ship returning to port could transform the world, a map became the most precious asset of a crown and the exploits of a traveler were capable of setting an empire on fire. More than 300,000 copies sold and 6 awards for best historical novel support the author from Borjano who, in addition to being a scholar and disseminator of castles, is Director of the charming hotel Castillo de Grisel, awarded Best Tourist Experience of Aragon 2019 and of the Castle-Palace of Bulbuente.
Buy tickets: Borsao Experience with Luis Zueco
7 Sep, 2024 | News
Luis Zueco has just published his new and long awaited novel, and begins a tour with which he will travel around Spain. As many already know, Luis is the director of Castillo de Bulbuente and Castillo de Grisel. After successes such as “El tablero de la reina”, “El Mercader de libros” or “El Castillo”; he publishes “El mapa de un mundo nuevo” (Ediciones B) which comes out today in bookstores.
This novel focuses on how travel has been transforming our world throughout history. It is a tribute to travelers, to travel books and to all those who have wanted to discover what the world was like and tell others about it. It makes us travel to the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, when there is still no notion that America exists, but they are discovering that the world may not be as everyone believed until then.
Isabella the Catholic is a key character, and the plot begins with the wedding of her daughter Juana in Flanders and ends with her death and the attempt of Philip the Fair to seize power and Ferdinand the Catholic to prevent it. It addresses, among other issues, the attempt of the Catholic Monarchs to create a plan of marriage alliances and strategic moves to make their descendants the greatest power of the time. Twenty years have passed since the period of the previous novel. The crown is consolidated and in splendor, but the queen’s ambition goes further and what she devises is a plan for her descendants to dominate the world.
Its protagonists are a young cartographer who dreams of traveling to Asia and emulating Marco Polo and the daughter of a whale hunter who is driven by revenge. A story full of adventure, mystery and surprising plot twists. With the careful historical setting that characterizes the works of Luis Zueco.
The relationship between the Italian Renaissance and the beginning of the Spanish Golden Age is key in the novel, and how both, at the end of the 15th century, produced two essential journeys. Italy, through its economic power, through art and culture, undertakes the great inner discovery of man with the recovery of classical knowledge. And Portugal and Spain, thanks to their energy and a new conception of reality, began the extraordinary adventure of discovering what our planet is like. A double journey that began the road to Modernity.
25 Jul, 2024 | News
As every year comes one of the most important dates for the town of Bulbuente, here we leave you the program of the IX edition of the Legend of the Enchanted Moor, the historical recreation that will begin this Friday, at half past ten at night, in the Town Hall Square.
The central day of the same will be Saturday 27, with a series of activities that will begin at eleven o’clock in the morning with the opening of the medieval market and continue throughout the day with parades, medieval dances (by the group Borjano “Puerta del Cierzo”, exhibition of falconry starring “La Rosa de los vientos”, as well as various workshops. Purchasing the corresponding tickets you can participate in the popular lunch and dinner.
The day will culminate with the theatrical representation of the romance between Aysha and Don Alonso, under the medieval tower, the fundamental spectacle of the recreation.
On Sunday, at 10 o’clock in the morning, in that beautiful dolina that bears the name of “La Mora Encantada”, the romance will be read and a lunch will be offered, to conclude the celebrations, on the return to the town with the cry of D. Alonso and the delivery of the text of the legend to the people of “Bulbón”.
