We left the Alcázar gardens and followed the old city wall along its northern side where there were good views over the river valley below and a barren plain stretching away in infinity towards mountains in the north. The city walls were not so impressive as those in Ávila however and eventually we left the old city through the Puerta de San Cebrián and followed a small road past the Santa Cruz monastery and the City’s bullring to the nearby village of San Lorenzo.
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Tagged Aqueduct, Castilla y Leon, Plaza Major Segovia, Roman Empire, San Lorenzo, Segovia, Spain, tapas
So far this week everything had gone mostly to plan and the itinerary that I planned meticulously beforehand had worked well so something just had to go wrong and today it went spectacularly wrong. On the final full day of the holiday it was our intention to take the train to the capital, Madrid, so we set our alarm clock for a six o’ clock for an early morning start.
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Tagged Alcazar, Alta Velocidad Espanola, Aqueduct, Segovia, Spainish trains, Storks
If the Alcázar isn’t enough for one city the Aqueduct is the most recognised and famous historical symbol of Segovia. It was built at the end of first to early second century AD by the Romans during their occupation of the Iberian Peninsula to bring water from the Río Frío about eighteen kilometres away and requiring an elevated section in its final kilometer from the Sierra de Guadarrama to the walls of the old town.
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Tagged Amphitheatre, Ancient Rome, Aqueduct, Castilla y Leon, Roman Empire, Romans in Spain, Segovia
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