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| Madrid: The Royal
Palace, viewed from Jardines de Sabatini, replaced the
Alcazar(Castle) which burned down in 1734 |
The Royal Palace, viewed
from the Cathedral |
Palacio de Comunicaciones
- The Main Post Office |
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| Cibeles Fountain, erected
1780(in front of Post Office) |
Plaza de la Villa - |
- with Casa de
Cisneros(rear centre) built in 1537 |
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| Street sign, made from
decorative tiles |
Southwest corner of Plaza
Mayor (designed 1619) |
Northwest corner of Plaza
Mayor |
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| Statue of Goya, outside
Prado |
Main entrance Prado Museum
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Iglesia de los Jeronimos,
behind Prado |
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Avila: City walls
(looking into the sun),
8 monumental gates and 88 towers |
Plaza de la Santa with
Puerta de Santa Teresa (left side of picture) |
Convento de Santa Teresa,
built 1636 |
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| Avila Cathedral, earliest
Gothic Church in Spain |
13th century interior |
Red and white limestone
gives an unusual mottled appearance |
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| Stone vaulted ceiling in
Cathedral |
Going out of the old city
through Puerta de San Vicente |
Leaving Avila behind across
the valley |
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| Segovia: Roman
Aqueduct 1st cent' AD |
28 metres high, 894 metres
long, made up of 163 Arches |
No mortar used in the
construction and still intact after 2000 years! |
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| Cathedral, Segovia,
completed in 1577 |
Plaza Mayor in front of
Cathedral |
Alcazar, Segovia, (viewed
from below and against the sun) |
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| Alcazar, Segovia, dating
from Roman times rebuilt and expanded in 13th & 14th
centuries |
View through windows in
royal apartments |
Leaving Segovia |
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| Madrid: Monumento
al Descubrimiento (Monument to the discovery of America) |
Monument to Christopher
Columbus |
Jardines de Descubrimiento |
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| Official old and used
books market |
Unofficial old and used
books market |
Pavement Cafe at book
market |
