Saturday, May 05, 2007
Avila
During the puente I visited Avila and Salamanca.
Avila is a city that could get any medieval history fans pulse racing, walking up the sloping road to the walled town can transform a person to the days of Sir Galahad. All of sudden you see the length of the walls as they snake around the town inside. It is impressive. Unlike the walls in Carrick Fergus where you can see Plastic Knights dotted around the walls trying to create a disney style historical perspective, the Walls in Avila let the mind do the thinking and the imagining.
The town inside the walls is pretty and contains the usual fare of palacios for the Dons and Duques, we had Nova so we could only peer around the door taking glimpses into the touristic sites. There are plenty of places to eat and drink, and the prices seemed reasonable, we had a lovely tortilla just outside the walls. The Tea Room (Coffee in reality) Run was acceptable, we didn´t see any bars that really stood out. Avila is a beautiful place, there was no reference to Cervantes being from there, and is a great place for an History buff. My only concern was that dogs can´t go up on the wall so we didn´t have a chance to see the spectacular views at their best.
The screen on my camera broke so all the photographs are taken blind, so they are a bit wonky, but they do give an idea of what Avila is like (I hope)
The impressive walls
Gateway
The Cathederal ( A bit wonky )
She couldn´t walk on the walls but she found a nice number plate to sniff
Avila is a city that could get any medieval history fans pulse racing, walking up the sloping road to the walled town can transform a person to the days of Sir Galahad. All of sudden you see the length of the walls as they snake around the town inside. It is impressive. Unlike the walls in Carrick Fergus where you can see Plastic Knights dotted around the walls trying to create a disney style historical perspective, the Walls in Avila let the mind do the thinking and the imagining.
The town inside the walls is pretty and contains the usual fare of palacios for the Dons and Duques, we had Nova so we could only peer around the door taking glimpses into the touristic sites. There are plenty of places to eat and drink, and the prices seemed reasonable, we had a lovely tortilla just outside the walls. The Tea Room (Coffee in reality) Run was acceptable, we didn´t see any bars that really stood out. Avila is a beautiful place, there was no reference to Cervantes being from there, and is a great place for an History buff. My only concern was that dogs can´t go up on the wall so we didn´t have a chance to see the spectacular views at their best.
The screen on my camera broke so all the photographs are taken blind, so they are a bit wonky, but they do give an idea of what Avila is like (I hope)
The impressive walls
Gateway
The Cathederal ( A bit wonky )
She couldn´t walk on the walls but she found a nice number plate to sniff
Labels: history, life in spain
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