Terracing

Hsrd to see, but the entire mountainside (of each mountain!) was terraced using the flat pieces of shale from the outcroppings on the mountains...don't know why...maybe a thousand years ago they grew grapes here?

Far from the madding crowd...for a few hours!

May 28th 2013
We visited Girona on the way from Barcelona to Figueres, where we are tonight. It was late in the afternoon when we arrived and the GPS took us on our first drive through Medieval streets since the nightmares of our Italian trip. This time, all went well, and we even found a free public parking lot! At one point, we were the only car on the streets (including no parked cars an ... read more

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more

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