Day Trip to Segovia 15th December

We took another bus, also around 45mins but this time to Segovia. The unique thing about this also hill built city is it has an amazing "Aquaduct" which was built a very long time ago to transport water from the well to the castle. It stretches on and on and all made out of brick.



Aquaduct

At the information center there was this really amazing cube that you stood inside and all the walls had a screen on them. It played clips of Segovia from a helicopter and it actually felt like we were flying. 

We walked the length of the Aquaduct and then looked around the city, which was also filled with souvenir shops very similar to Toledo. Again we went into another Cathedral, this one was far more open and again mum took prohibited photos. It amazed me the amount of detail that goes into the buildings, everything is painted perfectly and it just blows my mind.  

 We then found our way to the Castle at Segovia. Interesting fact... this is the castle that Disney based the castle on at Disneyland. The sad thing about this castle was everything original was destroyed in a fire so all the rooms were recreated by sketches done of the castle before the tragedy.  The luxury was still evident however and I was still amazed but the amount of unnecessary space. A whole room to get dressed in, another to write a letter in.



The Castle





One of the roofs, luckily there was an identical roof to replace the destroyed one

By now we were getting hungry so we decided to get a traditional Segovian meal, pig. Well to be more precise piglet, trot included. (Cochinillo Asado) It was delicious, but quite awkward to eat. As the sun set the aquaduct became beautifully lit up, a true photo moment and another protest started. They just seem to follow us everywhere.

Aqueduct at night



Again by the time we got to the train we were completely exhausted from all our travels, and not looking forward to the early morning train the next day to Barcelona.