Day 5 Segovia

Once upon a time, Spain was one of many parts of the Roman Empire.  Roman engineers were geniuses at moving water around Europe in aqueducts, and the picture shows a still solid structure now over 2000 years old!

We traveled by bus 50 miles north to the town of Segovia, far from the maddening crowd of Madrid, to see the aqueduct and more.  As we do in most places in Europe, we book hotels in the oldest part of the towns and cities.  Our hotel is center right in the picture.

Segovia is not very big, but it has so much to see for its size.  The Alcazar, or fortified palace, sits at one end of the town.

If you think you have seen this before, you probably are thinking of Cinderella’s castle at Disneyland as Disney borrowed some of the architecture from this medieval castle.  Once upon a time, the aqueduct delivered water to the castle and the water was stored in what looks like a wishing well.

The views from Alcazar were great as it sat at a very defensible point in the City.

One view is of the Cathedral and the center of town.

As mentioned, the Cathedral is the center of town and a stones through from our hotel.

One last thing about this town to note is that suckling pig is the dish of the region.  I can only imagine what you think of eating this dish, but I can tell you we were very happy to eat it.  You might say we ‘pigged out’.