'La Peste' recreates Seville in the 16th century
We do not know if we have been more hooked careful recreation of the Seville of five centuries ago , its plot or the distribution, but what is clear is that La Peste, which premiered on January 12, has crept into our list of series to watch this year.
At that time, Seville was the great hub of world trade since it was the gateway from America to Europe. In the series we can see the majesty of its cathedral or its palaces, but also the contrast with all the poverty and dirt shown in the streets. And the plague came, destroying the foundations of what was intended to be the capital of a great empire.
Furthermore, this time we will not only overcome the dreaded "every seriéphile gets the spoiler from him" (because it is going to infect us and we are going to devour it before) but also, thanks to this website, **we can travel back in time to Seville in the 16th century. The first step when entering the site? Select the episode we are going through. Welcome to The Plague Route ** .
On January 12, the series of Alberto Rodriguez and Rafael Cobos along with this platform cross media content, created in collaboration with El cañonazo, where the viewer will enter fully into the scenarios of the series.
The interactive map of the golden route of 'La Peste'
The Plague Route invites you to start a route through the most emblematic places that appear in the series, thus following the clues of the protagonist's investigation marked on the interactive map .
"This is a complete route through enclaves of enormous historical importance, very curious, hardly known by travelers and by many of the neighbors", they explain to Traveler.es from the organization.
'La Peste' recreates Seville in the 16th century
In real life we recognize them by some rodents - the animals that spread the disease five centuries ago - that the series has been distributed throughout the Andalusian capital . Calm down, they are golden in color, so as not to upset the most skittish.
We will find the golden rats near Puerta Jerez in the House of coin , lurking in the royal jail Sierpes street, several climb sneaking between the bars of the balcony of the Monardes house or climb the lampposts of the neighborhood of La Alameda de Hercules.
'La Peste' recreates Seville in the 16th century
They cross the Triana bridge pointing to the Castle of Saint George, but also Cathedral, the Triana purity street , the Molviedro Square , the cromberger press (in the popular Pajaritos street) and the Town Hall Square.
In these places you will also find a QR code so as not to miss anything: this allows access to a audio guide that gives a brief explanation about the history of each of them.
Poster of the series 'La Peste' in which the actor Paco León appears
But that is not all. The official Web stomps with transmedia narrative opening a whole world about the production of the series.
For example, **La Wikipeste** with extended information, or a 'youtuber' ( The Mancebia), playing the role of Eugenia in La Peste, which on her channel It talks about the uses and customs of the time.
A great project summed up in 1 season, 6 chapters, 130 locations real of Andalusia and Extremadura, 190 characters and a technical team of 400 people.
Among the cast are Paco and Maria Leon, Juan Miguel del Castillo, Benito Zambrano, Natalie Molina, Anthony of the Tower, Daniel Rovira, J Ulius of the Rose either Gervasio Iglesias …
'La Peste' recreates Seville in the 16th century
Other enclaves join the marked places in Seville : The Royal Alcazars , the Royal Artillery Factory , the Salinas House , the city hall Y Pilate House.
And they don't forget the surroundings either: the municipality of Carmona, Alcala de Guadaira , the ancient Roman city of italic or the trujillo castle (in Caceres).
"They honor and reveal the history of those brave men who, for sniffing out the truth, had to hide" , reveals the director.
If all this is what the first season of the series directed by Alberto Rodriguez (also from the Minimal Island ), with what will they surprise us in the second ? You heard right, this does not end here, but we will have to wait for 2019.
'La Peste' recreates Seville in the 16th century
THE ANECDOTE BEHIND THE SCENES
Maria Fernandez, Sevillian who has put her grain of sand as extra in the series , commented in amazement how in a sequence shot of five minutes she forgot she was acting.
"We were in very good conditions at the time: the clothes were heavy and very hot with the temperature that it was already, the environment full of dust, straw, there was everything ... ", she remembers amused." I came back to reality when suddenly I saw the actors and the camera ".
she shares with Traveler. is a funny anecdote of when they were given cookies after recording 17 takes in one non-stop afternoon: "Those in charge said 'for God's sake, eat them all, If a Maria biscuit slips into the plane, we mess it up'".
If you still haven't decided, we leave you the trailer to answer your questions: Will it infect you too?