Blogs from Segovia, Castile & León, Spain, Europe - page 5

Our first full day of exploration was in the town of Segovia, around 1 hours drive from Madrid. Kate, Keith and Mille were great tour guides, and decided to take us up through the mountains to see the snow, as you can see in the pictures. We had lots of fun throwing snow balls at each other and being able to see snow on our first day was magical! We then headed down the mountain to Segovia to see the amazing El Acueducto (The Roman Aqueduct). An 894m long, 28m high engineering wonder! This was built without mortar, amazing! We then saw our first cathedral (1st of many to come) and Segovia's 13th century fairytale Alcazar. The interior was stunning and there was 360 degree views from the torre de juan II (The tower). We got ... read more

I am now in Toledo...Isn't there a song by the name of "On my way to Toledo"? The Journey from Burgos to Toledo was long...I arrived in the evening and took a night stroll through the narrow streets and plazas and had Paella from Fedeu in the main plaza...Amazing...The stroll was more like a hike...It was great...Later on Toledo... I stopped in the stony hill town of Segovia yesterday to visit the Aquaduct, the Alcazar (built on an old Roman fort) and the main Cathedral (which was Gothic Moorish). The air was warm and dry and the landscape in general from Burgos to Toledo similar to the landscape along Thoasand Oaks/Westlake Village along the 101,some areas like Joshua Tree with all the rock cropping...I cannot say enough about Segovia...It is beautiful...I highly recommend it...I loved the ... read more

Buenos Dias, I woke up early once again and caught the bus to Segovia as it would take less time than the train. As the bus was passing through the Sierra Madre Mountains, I saw the Valle de los Caidos. Franco had it built by slaves to commemorate his fallen soldiers. Shortly after seeing it, I arrived in Segovia. As I walked into town, I passed several very old churches, so I began to get the feeling of what was in store for me that day. I continued along the street into the city and I arrived at the aqueduct. It is 89 metres high, 894 metres long and was built by the Romans 2000 years earlier without using any mortar. It is still standing without any issues and it a marvel of engineering. I wandered ... read more

So im down to 18 days til i return. I continue to be homesick, but I continue to see cool buildings. Not sure which one is more important :). I appreciate all the love i´ve recieved over here from you all. And i hope that all of you are doing well. Last week i got to visit salamanca and avila. Avila is still surrounded by a castle wall. it´s really beautiful and antique. I also saw a dead old finger from Saint Theresea. It was not my style but that´s cool. lol. It still had a huge bling ring on it! Salamanca was really beautiful, bigger than segovia, and had random pink people on balconies. I think there was an art exposition or something going on. The catedral alli was huge and amazing. I´ve never seen ... read more

Ok I have been pretty busy (and very tired) for the last week so I havent updated. Since the museos we had school this week, on tues we had a mini excursion to corpus christi the church that was the oldest synagogue. We heard the story about the devil building the aqueduct, it was pretty great. THen on wens we went to Escorial and the valley of the fallen, which were pretty much amazing. ON friday night the group of us went out and on sat we to madrid ... read more