Spain 5 - It's Friday and it's castle day -On the road to another couple of castles
September 8th 2013 Friday – Castle day as we headed off early in a westerly direction in search of the castles of Spain. Our first stop of the day was the town on Medina del Campo, a town which became wealthy in medieval times on the proceeds of the huge sheep fairs. The only sheep we saw today was Sion and he certainly was not for sale. The region around the town was mainly agricultural with corn and harvested ha
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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 
