Fuentes3

By Fuentes3

Side entrance...

This is a small office inserted into the building that houses the Town Hall , town library, and town social centre. Utterly free from any photographic merit, but what may be of interest is - well, are - two things: the CDTLsign on the wall, and the Lluz de seronda notices on the door. 
CDTL stands for Centro de Dinamización Tecnológica Local.  In the days when the internet had barely penetrated rural Asturias, the government of Asturias set up CDTLs in every council area. The Cabranes one consisted of 12 computers all internet linked, free for any resident in the area to use to get net-connected, with an administrator, Noelia, to assist - and they´re all still there. It also broadcast internet access to any domicile in the concejo that asked for it. That meant that the council came and put a receiver/transmitter on your wall that gave an internet connection. Obviously you had to pay for that - and some people still receive their internet that way even though we´ve had fibre-optics for maybe 10 years now. On the other hand you could use the CDTL free of charge, and some people still get their internet that way too.
Side-tracking: when I first graduated I got a Civil Service job in what was called Long Range Planning, which was a team which combined physical scientists with social scientists, and whose job was to predict and help manage technological change with regard to communication technologies. It should have been fascinating but they cancelled it and I went back to University... But the relevant point is that then, in 1968/9, they knew that fibre optics was the future, they just didn´t have the capital, or the political will, to do much about it. That´s 50 years ago.  
Back on track: Lluz de seronda (which means Light of Autumn in the Asturian dialect), and which is also called the Fotomaratón, is an annual two-day photo competition in Cabranes, which attracts amateurs and professionals from Asturias more widely, and means quite a lot of work for the organisers. I enter every year. Its admin, for no obvious reason, takes place in the CDTL. It happened Saturday and Sunday of last week, and unfortunately for me, that coincided with the sudden appearance of several red warning lights on my car dashboard - and the dealer is closed till Wednesday. So my wings were very clipped. 
Anyway, that explains the photo for you.

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