I imagine those experts meeting over long coffee nights, blurring pages and pages until they come to the desperate conclusion that all the cool toponyms have already been busted
Getting a toponym up your sleeve is very difficult. I understand the discomfort of those looking for clever names for the municipality resulting from the merger between Don Benito and Villanueva de la Serena. I imagine those experts meeting over long coffee nights, blurring pages and pages until they come to the desperate conclusion that all the cool place names have already been captured. Melgar from Fernamental! Villalibre of the jurisdiction! Setenil de las Bodegas! There are places that are blessed with a great and unattractive name.
Once, driving through fog along a small road in the Ampurdán, a silent town suddenly appeared to me, with a stony gravity. Ultramort, I read on the poster. For a moment I thought I had crossed the River Styx and entered another dimension. Iker Jiménez would have given that for four programs. It reminded me of Castroforte del Baralla, the Galician town that invented Torrente Ballester and which had a habit of floating in the mist when all the inhabitants cared. However, if I have to point out the masterpiece of toponymy, I believe it can be found on the island of Tristan da Cunha, the most remote inhabited place in the world. There, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, 2,700 kilometers away from anywhere with people, stands its tiny capital, Edinburgh of the Seven Seas.
You can’t beat that, friends from Extremadura. And you should also think about the name. Not everyone can get out of Bilbilita when the going gets tough and in this area, no matter what is done, no one will be able to dispute the glory of the hydrocalidos, inhabitants of Aguascalientes. Better to accept it.
Source: La Verdad
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