When the Prussian military officer in the service of the Carlists, Wilhelm von Rahden, arrived at Cañada de Benatanduz, he was not only impressed by the position of the hamlet built on the rock, but also by the modesty with which its inhabitants lived. For their part, the queen’s armies, too, who had to spend a winter there under the snow, learned much about the difficult conditions to which men were subjected in those lands.

Both, Carlists and liberals, had the opportunity to learn firsthand what made these mountains of Maestrazgo so special.