Avila's another city with massive Roman walls - these ones even higher than the ones in Lugo, although here they charge you to go up on the walls, and only allow a section of the walls to be climbed. It circles the old city, and in here is also the Convento de Santa Teresa - and in the Sala de Reliquia is an exhibit of St. Teresa's relics include a finger from her right hand!!! We stopped at Avila again at night on the way back from Salamanca to look at the walls from the Mirador. It was here that Laura and I walked up to the wrong car (we rented one for the trip), until David stopped us right before we opened the car doors, because he noticed the driver looking absolutely aghast that these
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