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THE TREASURE OF THE LAKES SOMIEDO

Mario Rosso de Luna was a Mason and a great occult investigator, highlighting among its productions recently reissued the book: The Treasure of the Lagos de Somiedo.

The fame of the treasure was not new, what he was, is the fact that many illustrated characters, leaping above the magical character of the myth of Cuélebre, had wanted to verify the existence of treasures waiting to be unearthed only. Following this logic, the treasures of eastern Asturias are eagerly sought.

Finally, in the years of further promoting the figure of the dilettante, will Mario Rosso de Luna, who belonged to the same lodge in Madrid that the Conde de Toreno, who accompanied the historian and first excavator Coaña castro, Don Juan Uria Riu, animated by faith in the Asturian mythology, engaged for several months to go in search of treasure Asturias: 432 gold bars.

In 1916, the occult writer published the impressions of that journey in the book The Treasure of the Lagos de Somiedo, which, in addition to test their fanciful imagination, was also a tribute to his illustrious predecessor in these investigations.

Afther the book: The Treasure of the Lagos de Somiedo, Asturies became a tourist attraction for over twenty Masonic lodges looking as coveted treasures.

Mario Rosso de Luna, accustomed to the arid lands of Extremadura and Madrid, where he had spent his entire life, thought the lake area would be only an extension of them, a landscape ravaged by the rain and cold, but on arrival was orange, whith lemon and beech oaks and palms, a climate that was more similar to Malaga. When the Vega de Enol it first opened its contemplation from Ordiales, Rosso de Luna thought he had found, not the Treasury of the Lakes, but the mythical lost city of Shangrila.