Well of Cultural Interest in the category of Archaeological Zone El Rebollar constitutes one of the few vestiges of the Visigoth era in the Madrid region whose permanence as a center of worship in its place of origin since the 7th century until the 18th century it has been preserved in excellent condition to this day The Visigothic rural church presents an unaltered and perfectly recorded stratigraphy of the nave's occupation which allows dating the original phase of the building and the subsequent reforms and the associated necropolis is providing data of great interest for the study of the population of late antiquity in the area its importance as a place where the religious character survives is supported by archival documentation The Visigoth presence in the territory of the current Community of Madrid was evident from the first invasions due to its condition as an important communications center in late antiquity as well as on the banks of the Tajo and Tajuña nuclei of agricultural and livestock exploitation linked to the ruralization of the territory were established while in the mountain areas linked settlements were established to livestock exploitation and control of the passes that connected the two plateaus The research carried out has allowed the identification and study of important necropolises from the Visigoth period as well as numerous habitat nuclei from this chronology and a grave in the southwest corner of the interior of the building The building had five rooms and five construction phases which correspond to the construction of the building in the middle of the 7th century and successive renovations until the first third of the 18th century The clear relationship between the tombs and the structure of the building perfectly oriented and arranged in rows with respect to the perimeter walls of the nave leads us to date the rural church to the second half of the 7th century AD El second building It is interpreted as a possible church located to the south of the previous one that would date from the 17th century It has three naves separated by three straight feet on each side that would support the roof structure El third building with a north-south orientation it is of a different typology than building 2 although it maintains the masonry factory and presents a high degree of destruction The chronology of this new building would be after the phase of burials below it The studies carried out have allowed Carbon 14 dating of various bone remains in a chronological arc between 656 and 768 AD It is worth highlighting the trousseau that accompanied the deceased such as a set of circular filiform hoop rings one of them equipped with a square decorated chaton with a multidisciplinary team in which the Complutense and Autonomous Universities have participated has developed successive archaeological excavation campaigns in El Rebollar since 2018 this site has the particularity of having applied a social archeology model involving the inhabitants of the municipality's population centers (El Boalo Cerceda and Mataelpino) in the work with the determined support of its town council The proposal does not compromise the scientific nature in any way since the management and professional team of archaeologists carries out intense didactic and training work with the participants bringing residents closer to their heritage and their past up to 40 people have worked on the excavations in a single day The excavations in El Rebollar are part of the Cultural Heritage Networks project of the Community of Madrid A territorial and regional development project around the Visigothic culture This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page BANGUI – On June 8, the appeals chamber at the International Criminal Court acquitted Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo of all charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity of murder, rape, and pillaging committed in the Central African Republic (CAR) in 2002 and 2003. Four days later, the court ordered his release especially organizations working on sexual and gender-based violence this decision felt like a bomb dropped on us erasing the work we have done over the last ten years But there has been scant meaningful coverage in the international press by first-hand sources discussing the implications of this decision for the thousands of victims of crimes by troops from Bemba’s Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) as well as the many more victims who continue to suffer sexual and gender-based violence from ongoing conflict in the Central African Republic That horrific crimes occurred at the hands of the MLC in CAR is not disputed. Bemba’s troops, although perhaps not under enough of his direct command to meet ICC standards to prosecute him for their actions, raped and killed thousands of people in CAR.As the office of the Prosecutor said in its statement last week the “judgement indeed confirms that Mr Bemba’s troops committed grave crimes which resulted in great suffering in the CAR The carnage and suffering caused by those crimes were very real.” When Bemba was first arrested and turned over to the ICC ten years ago our organization assisted victims to lodge claims to The Hague-based court we have continued to assist thousands of victims of atrocities in CAR the more than 150 female lawyers in our organization have registered 9,976 cases of sexual and gender-based violations and general human rights violations Most of the victims of these crimes will not see justice of the 171 cases of rape we submitted to the national courts in 2016-17 and the victims and survivors of mass atrocities we work with and impunity is often the norm for grave crimes with the trial court conviction of Bemba in 2016 we felt that we could place our hope in the International Criminal system to vindicate grave crimes in situations where the national system is unable to the International Criminal Court must take a number of steps the court should explain directly to the victims the reason for this decision and why specifically the evidence was insufficient to convict Bemba the court’s judges must explain why it took a decade to determine that the necessary threshold for command responsibility was not met The Office of the Prosecutor must also engage in deep reflection and consider whether there were other cases which could have been brought alongside the Bemba prosecution The Office of the Prosecutor should also speak directly with the victims to both learn how better to manage victim relations and prepare victims for the possibility of bad news as well as to explain to them where and how the prosecution may have fallen short to further victim-centered approaches to criminal procedure Unlike other countries in which the ICC works the court has two open investigations in CAR focuses on crimes committed in CAR between 2002 and 2003 during which time then president Ange-Felix Patassé was overthrown initiated by the ICC prosecutor in May 2014 is investigating crimes committed during renewed violence since 2012 This means that for the success of the second investigation the prosecution will need to rely on the support and evidence of additional victims and national organizations supporting victims Third, on June 13, the ICC’s Trust Fund for Victims announced the acceleration of its assistance program for Bemba’s victims and the first CAR investigation more broadly The Trust Fund stated that “physical and psychological rehabilitation as well as material support” would be provided and vowed to immediately engage with a broad range of CAR stakeholders on this issue A starting capital of one million euros has been reallocated for victims any decisions and changes relating to the form and amount of assistance must be communicated quickly and transparently to the victims and the limitations of the mechanism must be explained to victims up front To do otherwise will continue to erode at the trust provided to the court and cause additional harm to the victims who have waited ten years only to discover that justice continues to remain elusive we have lost faith in the ICC’s ability to deliver justice for grave crimes We need to hear from the prosecutors and the Court about what they will do to restore confidence and what steps they will take to ensure that when we submit future dossiers and victims take the significant personal risk to submit their testimony there will be the possibility that it will lead to meaningful justice President of the Association des Femmes Juristes de Centrafrique (AFJC) an association of women lawyers and advocates founded in 1992 to protect human rights and the rights of women and children in particular Head of special projects of the Association des Femmes Juristes de Centrafrique (AFJC) Stay up to date with Just Security curated newsletters: Just Security provides expert analysis and informational resources on the issues that matter most—without paywalls Just Security is an editorially independent daily digital law and policy journal housed in the Reiss Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law Support Just Security in shaping a more informed and secure world by making a tax-deductible donation of any size through the NYU giving page Donate Now The Running of the Balls is an unique experience exclusive to Mataelpino consisting of some very special runnings It’s a race open to the whole public divided into two categories a giant ball of expanding foam weighing 150 kilos and measuring 3 metres in diameter chases runners down the path leading to the main square The idea has reached every corner of the globe and boasts more and more participants each year We encourage you to visit us during the Summer Holiday the week of August 24th to take part in and enjoy these “unique runnings” with us Copyright © 2016 Ayuntamiento de El Boalo-Cerceda-Mataelpino The requested content cannot be loaded.Please try again later The approach of archeology to society has changed in Spain in recent years evidenced the need to involve local communities in archaeology opening up to new proposals on the political use of this discipline The integration of local communities with heritage was valued actively reinforcing their identity through History this example has reached Spain thanks to the promotion of studies by professionals Social participation can be established in two main axes: actively laboratory work and dissemination or passively but always seeking understanding in this participation the conservation and valuation of archaeological heritage.  The interaction of the different work proposals for the practice of archeology has had a positive impact on social articulation promoting conservation and dissemination measures not only inherent to local organizations An example is the El Ponderal cultural association in Hoyo de Manzanares made up of volunteers motivated by research and promotion of the history of their municipality after having actively participated in the excavation of the La Cabilda site is the “Heritage in the hands of young people” project in coordination with the management of the Los Abetos School in which a large group of 3rd and 4th ESO students developed a theoretical and archaeological practice in different actions in its environment or the work carried out at the Marqués de Santillana High School Institute in Colmenar Viejo (Team A of Archeology) (2014): Two mining-metallurgical enclaves during Late Antiquity in the center of the peninsula: Navalvillar and Navalahija (Colmenar Viejo The primitive castle of Real de Manzanares (Team A of Archeology) (2013): In search of the lost magnetite Iron metallurgy and village organization during late Antiquity in Navalvillar and Navalahija (Colmenar Viejo Proceedings of the X Conference on Archaeological Heritage in the Community of Madrid (Team A of Archeology) (2014): Settlement during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in the Madrid presierra: Cuenca Alta del Manzanares (Archeology Team A) (2016): The exploitation of iron in Late Antiquity in the upper Manzanares Basin Historic Mining and Metallurgy in Southwest Europe Proceedings of the IX International Congress on Historic Mining and Metallurgy in Southwest Europe MA (CCHS-CSIC) (In press): Glass of Late Antiquity in the Upper Manzanares Basin VII Conference on Archeology in the Duero Valley (2005): Guide to the archaeological site of Remedios A rural cemetery during Late Antiquity (1th century AD) historical and artistic heritage of Colmenar Viejo nº XNUMX (1967): The castles of Manzanares el Real Annals of the Institute of Madrilenian Studies (2005): The first castle of Manzanares el Real ? (Archeology Team A) (2016): The archaeological site of La Cabilda (Hoyo de Manzanares) (Archeology Team A) and GIMENO (CIL) (2016): Two latentiguan rings with inscription in the mountains of Madrid Sylloge Epigraphica Barcinonensis (SEBarc) XIV (Archeology Team A) (2016): The late medieval site of La Cabilda (2009): History and guide of the mines From the bowels of the earth: Guide to the mines and quarries of Colmenar Viejo Historical and Artistic Heritage of Colmenar Viejo (2015): Visigoth landscape in the Upper Manzanares Basin (Sierra de Guadarrama): archaeological analysis of the Navalvillar site (Colmenar Viejo Archeology and Prehistory of the Interior Peninsular (Team A of Archeology) (2015): Iron in the Navalvillar and Navalahija deposits during Late Antiquity fortifications and walled enclosures in the Community of Madrid General Directorate of Historical Heritage