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The Caleros: a lost profession in Spain
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 @ 12:39 PM

      Today, I would like to show you a video, about the lost work of "The Caleros". If you want to watch this video, please click on the link below:

http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/aqui-la-tierra/aqui-tierra-asi-trabajan-caleros/3766629/

Koldo Arrastia (A reporter of the program Aquí la tierra): “What happens, Pedro, Alejandro ?, What elegants you are ...! ..... So this is the lime stone ....!!"

Pedro Ruiz (A Calero = a man working lime): “These are them, it is called "Limestone"”.

Koldo: “Then, you are the old Caleros…..”

Pedro: “The old Caleros…, who stay here…..”

Oldo: “Lime was sold from a village to the other…”

Pedro: “You went to sell, to villages, with a donkey ....”

…….music……….

Koldo: “How it was sold lime, street by street, what it was said?”

Pedro: ”But: the Calerooooooo. Caleroooooooo!!!!!”

Koldo: “It is already the Caleroooo!!!!”

Pedro: “The Calerooooooo!!!!!”

Koldo: “And this was done so, everything by hand?”

Alejandro: “By hand”

…..music……

Koldo: “What lime was used in the villages for?”

Pedro: “For whitening and for building….., for disinfecting”

Koldo: “When we see white houses, is it paint or is it lime?”

Alejandro: “It is lime, it is lime, it is lime”

Pedro: “And it has better smell the paint, forty times, more frescanza ....”

Koldo: “What is frescanza….?, that it gives it…….”

Aleandro: “That it gives it more fresh……”

Pedro: “We took this one so……”

Koldo: “Come on”

………..music………………..

Koldo: “Also old Calero, give me your hand ..... Where you are got into right now, where you are, What is it?”

Luis Fernandez (Calero): “In the oven .... to make lime”

Pedro: “This is called the Calderuela”

Koldo: “Can you?”

Luis: “All right, all right”

Koldo: “Luis, Do you know why it is said "One of lime and other of sand"?”

Luis: “Because lime is better than sand….”

Koldo: “Sure?”

Luis: “Totally…..”

Koldo: “That is putting all, to fill the entire oven ... Is not it?”

Luis: “To fill the entire oven, yes”

Koldo: “Show the limestone ... it is not white at all, right?”

Luis: “Nooo”

…….music………………

Luis: “Everything... when you start to bake and you take it out, it becomes completely white”

Koldo: “The oven has already taken shape, right?”

Luis: “Of course…..”

Koldo: “The masterpiece, that you have done, tell me, What have we here ...?,  all of this is lime?”

Luis: “Everything that is lime”

….music………

Koldo: “The Caleros hands…, with mine-----, look:  mine seem to be of pianists and yours of workers ....! ...... Are we going to pour lime…..?........Listen: that is what my boss says”

……………music…………………

Koldo: “After a lot of hours working, here we have the final product ....,be careful with the lime--------“

Luis: “This one was the gold that we have here, in the village…”

Koldo: “Look at the house, that  I have  just bought right now, that I have not fiiled it with mortar either nothing;  I have to the brick ...., but I have to whitewash it….!”

……………..music………………

Koldo: There is a song that says: "Manuel, do not you put next to the wall, because you are going to fill yourself of..........”

Luis: “Of lime”

Koldo: “Of lime, Is not it?”

……the song…………………..

Koldo: “I am going to whitewash my house .... What do you think?”

Luis: “You do not say whitewash…”

Koldo: “What?”

Pedro: “Jalbegar my house”

Koldo: “Jalbegar?........Jalbegar my house……Are the old Caleros going to help me….?”

Luis: “No, we are going….”

Koldo: “Where…?”

Pedro: “To home, because we are retired…”

Luis: “We are fed up”

Koldo: “Wow…I have to do it by myself…..Come on…to the village………..See you, caleros…….If I have my house here……Nothing… two details are awy: the door, the water taps and the lime .... Do not you put next to the wall, because you are going to fill of lime yourself.......... ”

We hear Pedro shouting: “Caleroooooooo!!!!!!”

      Well, I hope that you have liked this video.

      Until my next post, kind regards,

Luis.

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MCzwz said:
Monday, November 21, 2016 @ 12:45 AM

What a very sweet story! The perspective of "old" Spain in the world of today's mechanized, technological world is refreshing.

How wonderful to see specialized, manual expertise producing a needed product and enhancing the environment in which one lives.

A sad loss.

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