Location
Getting There

compass_128SOL Festival 2011 is located in Spain at only 50 kms from the BOOM Festival 2010 location:

BORBOLLON LAKE - EXTREMADURA - SIERRA DE GATA - SPAIN
On the Google map below you can see clearly the 2 locations. Sol festival 2011 (Green mark) & Boom Festival 2010 (yellow star)
At the bottom of the Map is a road mapper to help you to get there. Use it as a Gps to find the best roads to join us...
PLEASE NOTE: Check out our 'Getting there' section under the 'venue' tab as there are many steep roads including some with 10 degree hills, so CHECK YOUR BRAKES!!!


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Extremadura and its Historyextremaduraflag
Despite being a little-known region outside Spain itself, Extremadura has more than its fair share of history. When the Roman Empire was expanding across Europe, one of the places they made almost a home from home was the city of Merida. Such was the importance of this city in Roman plans that they built a complete amphitheatre, as well as a traditional Roman temple, with an aqueduct to use for supplies and trade. These buildings can still be found in Merida today along with the archway that was erected and the villas for the travelling armies.

 

Archaeological Roman Ensemble in Mérida, capital of the ancient Lusitania.

extremadura8Lusitania, an ancient Roman province approximately including current day Portugal (except for the northern area today known as Norte Region), and a central western portion of the current day Spain, covered in those times today's Autonomous Community of Extremadura. Mérida (capital of Extremadura), became the capital of the Roman Lusitania province, and one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire.

Extremadura was the source of many of the most famous Spanish conquerors ("conquistadores") and settlers in America. Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, Pedro de Alvarado, Pedro de Valdivia, Inés Suárez, Francisco de Orellana, Pedro Gomez Duran y Chaves and Vasco Nunez de Balboa were all born in Extremadura and many towns and cities in America carry a name from their homeland: Mérida is the name of the administrative capital of Extremadura, and also of important cities in Mexico and Venezuela; Medellín is now a little town in Extremadura, but also the name of the second largest city in Colombia; Albuquerque is the largest city in New Mexico and its name is due to a transcription mistake of Alburquerque[citation needed], another town in Extremadura. The two (to date) Spanish astronauts, Miguel López-Alegría and Pedro Duque, also have family connections in Extremadura. King Ferdinand II of Aragon died in the village of Madrigalejo, Cáceres in 1516. Pedro de Valdivia founded numerous cities in Chile with names from small villages in Extremadura, such as Valdivia and La Serena.
The capital Santiago de Chile was founded as "Santiago de Nueva Extremadura" (Santiago of New Extremadura)