Abd-al-azia the presumably Moorish queen of which the legend referst to, was the wife of the "valí" of Siurana. While she was combing her hair was catch by the invaders Christians with her shoulders naked, when the Christians saw her they were surprised by her beauty and promised her to let her live if she would convert to the Christianity.
She said that she will accept their offer while she stated to cover her naked shoulders with a disguise.
She only ask them to permit her few more minutes to finish dressing up in order to be baptize.
While the deceptive Christians were waiting for her to dress up, she went down to the stables took her horse, and drove to the side of the cliff, the horse stopped sharp in the side of the cliff refusing to go ahead.
Quickly enough Abd-al-azia took off her disguise and covered the horse's eyes with it and kept pounding on the animal's belly forcing him to obey.

The animal kept forcing and fighting to keep his legs on the side of the cliff, but Abd-al-azia then fought back against the animal fear and pounded more on the animal's belly and forced it to start running but then just in the side of the cliff the animal intended to stop and it was there right were he market its horseshoe.
Abd-al-azia hammer her sword into the rock surface scarring then the animal to the point he finally jumped into the precipice with the queen on it.
Today one can still see this marks on the side of the cliff.

The Christian warriors saw for few instants the heroin's white veiling flying from the side of the cliff. That was the last sight of the Moorish queen desperated from their eyes. Everybody run toward the cliff border and all were astonish when they saw at the bottom of the precipice. The trees that covered the sides and all surroundings of the walls of the precipice were covering all sights down there to the point that there were not sights not the queen not the horse. The warriors then looked over to each other in disbelieve of what had happened just there and now questioning if they have really have seeing the queen jump to the precipice or all have been just fruit of their imagination.

Her jump has not been a jump to the bottom of the precipice but more a like a bound to the future in time, resisting its pass. Abd-al-azia defeated death to acquire a more immense glory; literature immortality.

"THE JEW":
The Jew is the second of the legendary characters forming part of this tragic legend. A men that does a transaction and compact. In the same manner the responsible of the final result is not him, but more like the Christians conqueror that finally forgot their agreement in the moment of the invasion and destruction of the city.
His enterprise consisted in the betray of the city's keys in exchange for his properties and life.
The situation was very difficult. In the very beginning there were not easy agreements possible, cause the Christians were more settle to expel all moor from the land.
But were the idea of miserably wander about no man's land the idea that took them into the unreason decision of fighting back the Christians
"It is preferable of dying defending all that it is ours that to dye in a extrange land for something that it is not even ours".
"Here are our ancestries ashes and we will live ours here too"
"Here is where we have been born and here is where we will dye"

These are some of the things one could hear in the almost conquered city in the days before the final fall, when the food and water and the munitions were almost gone and many people were starving to death.
It was then when "Shylock Roquerol" decided to finally negotiated the liberation of the population under the promise to respect their lives and letting them take their properties.
In the deal was included the general respect for the Jews community properties, in this way our character was making sure he would keep for himself much of the properties (due to the fact that they were obliged).
This how the red beard Jew finally took the Christians thorough a passage to the center of Siurana, and the Christians entered victoriously.
They finally didn't respected now children not older people, soon the city were in flames, the Jew desesperated when seeing the chaos created by the broken promises made by Christians and seeing that all his expectations been burned. Not only his dreams of becoming rich were burning.
His house also was burning in flames, his wife and daughter also desperated and then he decided to finally run away.
He felt like going back but the pain and anguish of the horror just seeing stopped him. He kept ahead while lamenting his mistake saying to himself: ¿What have I done? Lamenting his thrust for the Christian's word.

He finally stooped at the top of the "Siuranella" and full of anger and wishful of revenge he shouted:
"You will not benefit of Siurana, you murderers and perjurers!"
"It will not rise in your hands, it will never be anything!"

And he kept crying out under devilish powers extending the malediction to the assailants, his sons and all their successions for the eternity. The malediction still is on the city that never has been what it was.Since the conquest has always had a mysterious life and it is condemn to extinguish if God does not forgive it. A big rock from the "Gritella" has an incredible resemblance with a human face. Its been said that it is the face of "Shylock Roquerol", the Jew that betray Siurana to the Christians.

Text By Eduard Juncosa