alansykes
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Except the Francés
Probably not, but today in Soria I was astonished at the beauty of the semi-ruined cloisters of the former Templar monastery of San Juan de Duero. The site, just by a mediaeval bridge over the Duero out of town, the modest size and the amazing mix of Romanesque, Gothic and Mudéjar - just wonderful. It's now up in my top ten Spanish sights, mostly encountered on the camino, alongside the Mezquita in Córdoba, the riverscape at Zamora, the Visigothic Santa Lucía del Trampal in Extremadura, the Patio de las Doncellas at the Alcázar in Seville, the view down onto Segovia from the Puerto de la Fuenfría, the twin cathedrals at Salamanca, the Roman theatre at Mérida, the walls at Ávila, El Greco's view down onto Toledo from the south and, oh bother, that's 10 already and I haven't even got to Galicia.